Showing posts with label Syria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syria. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Putin on a Ritz


I found this on facebook.  Honestly, it just made my day because he's such a dicky dictator.  (No, I have no idea whose body that is, but this is hilarious) 

A few more thoughts on Syria:  Yes, Russia is self interested in this.  Yes, we are doing something Putin suggested. No, this does not make us a nation of pussies.  Our president is not showing weakness.   He is showing something we haven't had in the White House in a while before him, self control and good judgement.   This is called acting like a grown up.  Judging from the selection of clips on the Daily Show from last night, I have to say the media are not acting like grown ups about this.   

Why do we always have to be at war?   Better question: Why do some people always have to jump President Obama's ass?   I swear the man could eat a donut in public and they'd be talking about how he's promoting diabetes.   He could use one brand of toilet paper and they'd label it as a fascist act.   In this case, Biden stumbled into a way to prevent WWIII and they're acting like he just gave his lunch money to a school yard bully. 

Don't get me wrong, Putin is a bully.  He's a shit.  He's self interested.  But bombing Damascas is not a good Plan B to doing something this guy wants.  No one wants Damascas to be bombed, except maybe the people who make bombs.  Who cares who came up with the idea?  It's a good one.   

Assad, no one is taking their eyes off you.   We ARE the United States of America.  Military force is NEVER off the table.  Because we're kind of like that... 



Monday, September 16, 2013

Just because this Putin/Syria thing has been driving me nuts and I'm too lazy/busy to do a real post.

For some reason I don't understand myself, I have been watching documentaries on WWII for the last two days. After watching interviews with Himmler's granddaughter, I'm going to watch something less disturbing: Ghost shows!!! yea!#whydoIdothistomyself
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  • Joy Calloway and Christy Lyn Smith like this.
  • Joy  I hope everyone who watched at least wondered about history repeating itself -- and really pondered the whole Syrian issue. Although I don't think Syrian's president is another Adolph Hitler, no one thought Adolph Hitler was either - at first. But ending up in another war is certainly nothing any of us wants to do.
  • Leslie Terrell Well, it was about the effect on the children of Nazi war criminals. It's totally... horrible and bizarre to watch Hoess's grandson crying at Auswitz in front of a room full of Jewish Holocaust survivors. What's going on in Syria is disturbing. I'm hoping it can be resolved diplomatically. Never thought I'd be saying Thank God for self interested Russians stepping in....
  • Joy  The Russians certainly have an agenda - can't say their motives are in sync with our own. Stalling for time sure gives a lot of leeway to hide what you don't want the world to see.
  • Leslie Terrell Oh they have an agenda. That's their ally and they have military bases in their ports, I think. Anyway, it's a strategic point they need access to and it would mess with their lives if the area got tied up in a war. It is a civil war and we know those need to be resolved internally. I would think if they needed to hide what they didn't want the world to see they could have done it right after they gassed those folks and the news got out. They've had plenty of time ALREADY. I think having everyone staring at them with malicious intent might clean up their acts a little bit.