Dr. Dealgood Posted April 14, 2018 Posted April 14, 2018 https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/world/middleeast/trump-strikes-syria-attack.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage Yet another war in the middle East. Now we hold our breath and see what the other side will do.
Bro McCarthy Posted April 14, 2018 Posted April 14, 2018 When GWB launched into Iraq, I thought : “I don’t like this one bit... but ...I mean, GW... he has information I don’t.... information that can’t be reavealed yet, ...but in the end ... maybe ‘I’ll see that it wasn’t so bad.”Turns out that I, as a 26 year old shade tree historian, knew better than the president.Today I say the same thing about Syria. It doesn’t seem to make sense that Bashir Asshat would have used gas... but what do I know? Except that I won’t have to wait and see if Trump’s airstrike wasn’t so bad, because if it doesn’t touch off WW3, it wasn’t so bad.This is just idle musing, and a slight digression from the subject but consider: Trump could have colluded with Russia without colluding. Trump ran before, in 2000 I think. Any foreign agency worth its salt would have had people assigned to “get close” to him as a potential future president even before that. He could have been developed as an “unconscious” agent, as I believe both Hitler and FDR were. Neither FDR or Hitler were aware of how much Stalin worked to put them over, and this was because, IMO, both men’s inner circles were penetrated by informant informants, rats, moles to such an extent that Stalin always knew what they were thinking and how to control their behaviorIf this were the case with Trump, and there’s no really good reason to think it is (other than that the US completely let down it’s guard against Soviet penetration 20 years ago, so the penetration exists somewhere If not everywhere), it’s a terrifying scenario, because they could manipulate Trump into becoming the next Hitler (guy who blunders his nation into unwinnable world war), and that is the only possible reason Putin could have for putting Trump over. Reasons to think Putin did NOT want Trump: Press treatment of Trump... unless they figured out that the more ugly Jewish comedians bash someone, the more support he gets ... which is also quite possible
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