Democrats, you are the party of war now ..
Author: W.
Hillary snippets regarding her neo-conservative warmongering tendencies ..
Read the whole article if you have time ..
— Hillary vs Obama on Arming the Rebels —
Samantha Power sometimes argued with Obama in front of other National Security Council officials, to the point where he could no longer conceal his frustration. “Samantha, enough, I’ve already read your book,” he once snapped.
At the outset of the Syrian uprising, in early 2011, Power argued that the rebels, drawn from the ranks of ordinary citizens, deserved America’s enthusiastic support. Others noted that the rebels were farmers and doctors and carpenters, comparing these revolutionaries to the men who won America’s war for independence.
At the outset of the Syrian uprising, in early 2011, Power argued that the rebels, drawn from the ranks of ordinary citizens, deserved America’s enthusiastic support. Others noted that the rebels were farmers and doctors and carpenters, comparing these revolutionaries to the men who won America’s war for independence.
Obama flipped this plea on its head. “When you have a professional army,” he once told me, “that is well armed and sponsored by two large states”—Iran and Russia—“who have huge stakes in this, and they are fighting against a farmer, a carpenter, an engineer who started out as protesters and suddenly now see themselves in the midst of a civil conflict …” He paused. “The notion that we could have—in a clean way that didn’t commit U.S. military forces—changed the equation on the ground there was never true.” The message Obama telegraphed in speeches and interviews was clear: He would not end up like the second President Bush—a president who became tragically overextended in the Middle East, whose decisions filled the wards of Walter Reed with grievously wounded soldiers, who was helpless to stop the obliteration of his reputation, even when he recalibrated his policies in his second term. Obama would say privately that the first task of an American president in the post-Bush international arena was “Don’t do stupid shit.”
Obama’s reticence frustrated Power and others on his national-security team who had a preference for action. Hillary Clinton, when she was Obama’s secretary of state, argued for an early and assertive response to Assad’s violence. In 2014, after she left office, Clinton told me that “the failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad … left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled.” When The Atlantic published this statement, and also published Clinton’s assessment that “great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle,” Obama became “rip-shit angry,” according to one of his senior advisers. The president did not understand how “Don’t do stupid shit” could be considered a controversial slogan. Ben Rhodes recalls that “the questions we were asking in the White House were ‘Who exactly is in the stupid-shit caucus? Who is pro–stupid shit?’ ” The Iraq invasion, Obama believed, should have taught Democratic interventionists like Clinton, who had voted for its authorization, the dangers of doing stupid shit. (Clinton quickly apologized to Obama for her comments, and a Clinton spokesman announced that the two would “hug it out” on Martha’s Vineyard when they crossed paths there later.)
— Hillary vs Obama on The Red Line —
For some foreign-policy experts, even within his own administration, Obama’s about-face on enforcing the red line was a dispiriting moment in which he displayed irresolution and naïveté, and did lasting damage to America’s standing in the world. “Once the commander in chief draws that red line,” Leon Panetta, who served as CIA director and then as secretary of defense in Obama’s first term, told me recently, “then I think the credibility of the commander in chief and this nation is at stake if he doesn’t enforce it.” Right after Obama’s reversal, Hillary Clinton said privately, “If you say you’re going to strike, you have to strike. There’s no choice.”
— Hillary vs Obama on Libya —
But what sealed Obama’s fatalistic view was the failure of his administration’s intervention in Libya, in 2011. That intervention was meant to prevent the country’s then-dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, from slaughtering the people of Benghazi, as he was threatening to do. Obama did not want to join the fight; he was counseled by Joe Biden and his first-term secretary of defense Robert Gates, among others, to steer clear. But a strong faction within the national-security team—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice, who was then the ambassador to the United Nations, along with Samantha Power, Ben Rhodes, and Antony Blinken, who was then Biden’s national-security adviser—lobbied hard to protect Benghazi, and prevailed. (Biden, who is acerbic about Clinton’s foreign-policy judgment, has said privately, “Hillary just wants to be Golda Meir.”) American bombs fell, the people of Benghazi were spared from what may or may not have been a massacre, and Qaddafi was captured and executed.
But Obama says today of the intervention, “It didn’t work.” The U.S., he believes, planned the Libya operation carefully—and yet the country is still a disaster.
“So we actually executed this plan as well as I could have expected: We got a UN mandate, we built a coalition, it cost us $1 billion—which, when it comes to military operations, is very cheap. We averted large-scale civilian casualties, we prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict. And despite all that, Libya is a mess.”
Mess is the president’s diplomatic term; privately, he calls Libya a “shit show,” in part because it’s subsequently become an isis haven—one that he has already targeted with air strikes. It became a shit show, Obama believes, for reasons that had less to do with American incompetence than with the passivity of America’s allies and with the obdurate power of tribalism.
— Hillary vs Obama on the Rise of China —
Many people, I noted, want the president to be more forceful in confronting China, especially in the South China Sea. Hillary Clinton, for one, has been heard to say in private settings, “I don’t want my grandchildren to live in a world dominated by the Chinese.”
“I’ve been very explicit in saying that we have more to fear from a weakened, threatened China than a successful, rising China,” Obama said. “I think we have to be firm where China’s actions are undermining international interests, and if you look at how we’ve operated in the South China Sea, we have been able to mobilize most of Asia to isolate China in ways that have surprised China, frankly, and have very much served our interest in strengthening our alliances.”
The Obama Doctrine
The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipTltxCX_wY
If you thought Syria was a mess now, wait until Hillary gets the power of the US Presidency .. Her covert work as Secretary of State resulting in 250k+ dead and 6 million refugees will be a footnote .. Assad is still in power .. Do you get it?
Hillary Clinton vs. Assad ! watch and laugh
اتحاد القنوات السورية على اليوتيوب شبكة منقول الإخبارية،شبكة اخبار طرطوس,شبكة شام المؤيدة,حلب نيوز،من أجلك سوريا الأسد،جنود الاسد،الصفحة الداعمة للسيد الرئيس…
Thank you Hillary, for giving us the Iraq War.
Hillary Clinton Iraq War Vote Speech
Hillary Clinton’s Iraq war speech on the Senate floor in October 2002. Hillary Clinton explains why she is voting to go to war in Iraq.
With Bernie only picking up 36.8% of the California vote so far, maybe it’s time for all my Facebook friends to open up their echo chamber to let more diverse voices in ..
Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman discusses Antifragility at NYPL.mp4
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Apple Fans
Apple Fans.
I know that I generally think you’re a cult worshiping group of morons. And I know that I’m pretty critical about the vapid way by which you buy anything with an Apple logo on it.
But in the last quarter, you haven’t been pulling your weight. Apple revenue is down over both of the last two quarters. Apple is down by $25 billion in revenue over the last quarter, and down by $1 billion over the quarter before that.
Yes, the Apple watch was silly, as if all their other products weren’t, but you still need to buy one. It’s your duty to your country and to your corporate affiliate.
I understand that Bernie has you all convinced that you should stop handing over your government earned student loan money to Apple, and I realize now that you’re all graduating you have to think about real issues like food and rent, but the fate of Obama’s economic recovery depends on you continuing to purchase Apple products.
I’m serious.
If Apple has another down quarter and their revenue continues to decline they may have to lay off some of their employees. These employees will then have to cancel their HBO and Netflix subscriptions and these services might even have to cancel Game of Thrones and House of Cards due to a declining subscriber base.
I know you hate capitalism, but understand, if you don’t go out and buy an Apple watch right now, you’re going to mess it up for all of us.
Apple is hurting.
Thanks.
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Is the stock market rally over?
Is the stock market rally over?
Sorry, not this time .. Defeated in a landslide ..
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“Final results from Sunday’s referendum showed that nearly 77% opposed the plan, with only 23% backing it.”
Switzerland’s voters rejects basic income plan – BBC News
Voters in Switzerland overwhelmingly reject a plan to introduce a guaranteed basic income for everyone, whether in work or not.
Unfortunately all 23 coops will have have to fail before people will accept that Obamacare is bust .. As the options shrink down to a mere handful, they will be declared too big to fail and will need regular injections of taxpayer money ..
The free market will be blamed for not providing what Obama has mandated .. Idiots will demand single payer, a single corrupt too big to fail entity, disconnected from market forces, and funded directly by tax payers .. Magically, everyone will be in excellent health .. Not ..
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“At the latest count, 12 of Obamacare’s 23 health cooperatives have now failed, potentially putting taxpayers on the line for more than $1.2 billion and displacing more than 700,000 members.”
“If I were a national insurer like UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) or Anthem (NYSE:ANTM), I would have absolutely no fear about raising my prices moving forward considering that low-cost competition doesn’t appear to be succeeding.”
More Than Half of Obamacare’s Co-Ops Have Now Failed — Here’s Why You Should Care — The Motley…
At the latest count, 12 of Obamacare’s 23 health cooperatives have now failed, potentially putting taxpayers on the line for more than $1.2 billion and displacing more than 700,000 members. Here’s why you should care.