For the next 30 years or so I would like it to be a big colosseum, where various jihadis from around the world can go to achieve martyrdom, rather than staying in their own western countries causing trouble.
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Posted on 06/22/2013 11:38:31 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ex-empires may all be equal, but some are apparently more equal than others. Since he became US Secretary of State in February 2013, John Kerry has met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu four times. Only one other foreign dignitary has spent more time with Kerry – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Simple arithmetic does not reveal much about foreign policy priorities, but this fact does symbolize the importance that the Obama administration attaches to a new, improved version of the “reset” in Russian-American relations. That attachment even overrides Barack Obama’s relationship with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom Obama recently described as one of his five best international friends. And that, in turn, has important implications for the outcome of the ongoing civil war in Syria.
Foreign intervention has been one of the most important factors affecting the course of the upheavals washing over the Arab world since the first uprising, in Tunisia in late 2010. In Syria, a loose, disjointed coalition of opposition forces that receives material support but no direct military assistance from a loose, disjointed coalition of third parties (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar) has waged a persistent though inconclusive campaign for over two years against a regime that enjoys direct military assistance from Iran and Hizbollah – the only outside forces with “boots on the ground” in Syria – but also critical material and diplomatic support from Russia.
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What does Syria have that is of interest (beyond antiquities)?
What does Syria have that is of interest (beyond antiquities)?
Syria has Iraq’s missing weapons of mass destruction along with much that they made themselves. Iran has the nukes. Egypt has been armed and rearmed by the US. Guess who is in the middle of all these weapons of mass destruction, Israel.
Location, location, location.
A state-owned central bank.
For the next 30 years or so I would like it to be a big colosseum, where various jihadis from around the world can go to achieve martyrdom, rather than staying in their own western countries causing trouble.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom Obama recently described as one of his five best international friendswell, that'll put blood in Erdogan's stool. :')
We think alike.
I would start a travel agency if it would help.
Bingo.
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