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First Appearance: http://en.alalam.ir/news/1512664
Published out of Iran yesterday: “Al-Qaeda militants kill 24 civilians near Ras al-Ain”.
Published via the anti-Jihad movement shortly after (and it’s making the rounds now): “Report – Syria: Al-Qaeda Force Passengers Off a Bus and Behead 24 of Them, Including a Mother And Baby.” Pat Dollard, September 2, 2013.
Sing along: “Tyrants to the right of me — fanatics to the left: stuck in the middle with you!”
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Let’s compare notes.
Russia <–> Assad’s Baathist Syria <–> Ayatollah Khamenei’s Jew Hating and Genocidal Iran (officially; unofficially it may be better than the regime makes it look) : Qatar’s Sunni Islamic Ambitions <–> the Anglophile West (at least) <–> Syria’s Rebel Cause / (divided by) A Fanatic Islamist Complement.
For spice, add a dollop of chemical warfare.
And, remember, Putin, standing up for the power of money and secular Russian interests, even while fond of the Greek Orthodox Church (and I suspect of Israel too), seems to be saying, more or less, “let it burn”.
Considering who is fighting and what they are willing to do to one another . . . .
Obama, who probably by now hates this lurid spotlight, has to drag his heels a bit while mulling or preparing to block the further use of chemical weapons at the threshold and get Qatar (x Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) looking about right (no more wife beating — that has been announced) for a “greater virtue” argument and either bringing the AQ / MB adventurers into the Idris fold or getting them off the field to buttress that stance.
Good luck with that.
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It hasn’t been a “cakewalk”.
It won’t be unless, until, when the day comes that the Syrians today bereaved, displaced, and refugee and just plain in the middle of a theater of war understand that they, no one else, occupy the center and middle of Syrian culture and society.
What they are about, what they will be about, what kind of lives their children may have to look forward to, what attitudes, beliefs, ethics, and values they may wish to own and hold dear and which they may care to repudiate — start with anti-Semitism and the hatred of Israel, please — will be decided between the familiar in tyrants and extremists if they do not fill out with their own energies and prayers General Idris’s or some other moderate center middle compassionate humanizing decent stance.
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I know this blog has a small readership, if any, but wide distribution.
My advice if you’re “operational” or close enough for influence: get the savagery off the field, for demonstrations of greater cruelty and ever more breathtaking callousness and sadism do not become you.
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