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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (959885)8/28/2016 12:59:12 PM
From: Broken_Clock  Respond to of 1575780
 
Remember a little thing called the stock market bubble? it blew up and was dumped on Bush, who promptly blew up a housing bubble that was dumped on Obama who promptly blew up a war bubble that will be dumped on…?



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (959885)8/28/2016 1:00:59 PM
From: Broken_Clock  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575780
 
Hillary Clinton’s “Humanitarian Interventionists” Prepare for War in Syria
Defense One, the online magazine published by the self-described “neocon guy" David Bradley, has called for a no-fly zone in Syria. Evelyn N. Farkas, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a NATO operation, writes the United States is “morally complicit in the worsening humanitarian catastrophe that is Syria,” but not for the reason you might think. The United States is guilty because it has not intervened more directly. “We should be ready to enforce [a no-fly zone] through military force and communicate this directly to the Russian government. We should seek U.N. Security Council approval, but be prepared to proceed without it.”

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Rebranded Al-Qaeda Cell In Syria Receiving US Weapons
Though many scoffed when the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, Jabhat Al-Nusra, rebranded itself Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, that cosmetic change was apparently enough to convince the US government to start sending them arms. In the recent push by rebels in the city of Aleppo, Al-Nusra /Al-Sham took a leading role and was reportedly among the rebels groups who received US weapons. Those weapons will first be used to kill Syrian government troops and after that, well, who knows?