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TwilightGardener

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3. Any announcement made of a successful mission is mostly met with silence.
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 01:10 PM
Sep 2014

Nobody is proud of the military's accomplishments any more, I guess, if the President isn't a neocon and the neocon agenda (permanent ground troops in Iraq, getting rid of Assad and installing a new regime) isn't being fulfilled. Yet they continue to perform admirably.

It irritates me a bit, but I'm so used to being a "news digger" that I expect it. MADem Sep 2014 #1
I cannot see it as anything but racism. PBO will always be illegimate for not obeying them. freshwest Sep 2014 #20
Oh, hell yes, that too! Yes We Tan! Who's that on the GOLF course? MADem Sep 2014 #21
Good analysis of the last couple of weeks flamingdem Sep 2014 #2
Any announcement made of a successful mission is mostly met with silence. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #3
Wasn't Obama who said "Assad must go"? former9thward Sep 2014 #13
He did, and that was his fault for listening to the dumbasses in TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #14
Well I agree (I think) with you that we should not intervene in Syria. former9thward Sep 2014 #27
If Assad were to go... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #41
I have been to Syria three times. former9thward Sep 2014 #46
One, of many, skills GWB lacked was... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #47
First of all I don't have alot of original ideas of my own to stop Isis.... wercal Sep 2014 #4
Putin and Assad let them flourish. It was their strategy to defeat the "good" rebels TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #5
It's Putin's fault! CJCRANE Sep 2014 #8
Actually, since Putin has been propping up, supplying, and advising the TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #9
But who supported the rebels in the first place? CJCRANE Sep 2014 #11
Sunni Arabs, mostly. But I noticed a while back that the same hysterical Russian TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #12
But even the official reports say that other rebel groups joined ISIS. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #15
ISIS served the purposes of Assad, Putin, and Iran (friend of Assad). To a point. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #17
It wasn't even called ISIS back then. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #18
Assorted bad guys, left over from the good old days of AQ in Iraq, who saw TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #19
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Peacetrain Sep 2014 #34
Great post Twilight Gardener. n/t truedelphi Sep 2014 #31
"yet" ?? Rhinodawg Sep 2014 #6
Our chicken sh*t media has a ton of Wellstone ruled Sep 2014 #7
Today's MSM is almost worse than it was in the Bush era. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #10
One reason I don't care that much is that Doctor_J Sep 2014 #16
------ heaven05 Sep 2014 #26
is that good or bad? Doctor_J Sep 2014 #28
They get better ratings Mr.Bill Sep 2014 #22
a thousand recs for this OP. Voice for Peace Sep 2014 #23
Progress And The Middle East Is An Oxymoron cantbeserious Sep 2014 #24
thank you for the sanity heaven05 Sep 2014 #25
DiFi's reaction was not knee-jerk Doctor_J Sep 2014 #30
can't disagree heaven05 Sep 2014 #33
In your post, you claim that "We never had Iraq." ??:?? truedelphi Sep 2014 #29
I know that and it is poor wording - I meant they were not ours to lose - they were independent karynnj Sep 2014 #37
are you really so smitten the you accuse the media of *siding with ISIS*? MisterP Sep 2014 #32
Of course not, where did you get that insane idea? karynnj Sep 2014 #35
And are you so against reality.. that you accuse karyn of that? Cha Sep 2014 #53
I think the President and SOS Kerry... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #36
Agreed karynnj Sep 2014 #38
And... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #39
I agree with you War Horse Sep 2014 #40
And amazingly, it's one of many... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #43
"Who lost Syria?" or "who lost Iraq?" Veilex Sep 2014 #42
You might want to reread the OP... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #44
Just reacting to the title... Veilex Sep 2014 #55
I have done that myself... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #57
No worries... I may have deserved it. At least a little. This time. ;) Veilex Sep 2014 #60
... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #63
That was my point karynnj Sep 2014 #50
Noted... pardon me while I go read Veilex Sep 2014 #56
... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #58
It's not just the media, pundits and politicians carry on cheapdate Sep 2014 #45
Deliberately lying. Side of given issue... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #48
I do think some of the cheap shots are clearly dishonest karynnj Sep 2014 #54
This should be Trending on the Home Page and high on the Great Page. XP'd it to get more K&R's. freshwest Sep 2014 #49
yes tazkcmo Sep 2014 #51
The "media"'s MO has only gotten exponentially worse since I dropped it in 2002.. Thank Cha Sep 2014 #52
Great thread, karynnj! Thank you. n/t YvonneCa Sep 2014 #59
Thank you and others who joined the discussion nt karynnj Sep 2014 #62
You can't be serious... sendero Sep 2014 #61
Excellent post, thank you The Blue Flower Sep 2014 #64
thank you for your spot on perspective hopemountain Sep 2014 #65
I'm sure the parents of Steven Sotloff are very happy with the real progress that has been made. egduj Sep 2014 #66
Idiotic cheap shot karynnj Sep 2014 #67
True BKH70041 Sep 2014 #68
What would you recommend Obama do in the Middle East? karynnj Sep 2014 #69
Something other than what's he's doing now. BKH70041 Sep 2014 #70
Note that the same "he's too weak" was NOT made of GWB when beheadings happened then karynnj Sep 2014 #71
Thanks for explaining "the real world" to him, karyn. "Obama is weak" is a republicon meme Cha Oct 2014 #72
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