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amandabeech

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8. You're welcome.

Reply to femmocrat (Reply #7)

Thu Sep 11, 2014, 10:44 PM

Sep 2014

I highly recommend Richard Engel's reporting. I wish that he had a direct line to the President.

There's an interesting article in the New Yorker from 4/28/2014 called "What We Left Behind." I can't get the link to work, but the article reviews Maliki and inability to deal with the Sunni and Kurds. It's long, but it has a lot of interesting info.

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Syria, Iran, Russia Slam Obama�s Strategy [View all] Purveyor Sep 2014 OP

Well, I think that makes sense from their viewpoint. femmocrat Sep 2014 #1

Russia and Iran are Syria's allies. amandabeech Sep 2014 #2

Yes, I know that. femmocrat Sep 2014 #5

Yes, Russia's doing it in Ukraine, and we're complaining like crazy and putting amandabeech Sep 2014 #6

That is very interesting. femmocrat Sep 2014 #7

You're welcome. amandabeech Sep 2014 #8

If THAT crew is against it, Obama must be doing the right thing! 7962 Sep 2014 #3

What a stupid fucking way to assess right and wrong Scootaloo Sep 2014 #11

Why? I hear people say the exact same thing when the GOP is against something 7962 Sep 2014 #12

And it's fucking stupid then, too Scootaloo Sep 2014 #13

Pretty good analysis. I say just help em enough to let them kill each other 7962 Sep 2014 #14

Didn't the foreign minister... YvonneCa Sep 2014 #4

Yes, but in the article, the Foreign Minister says that Obama must contact Assad amandabeech Sep 2014 #10

for public consumption. Obama can't afford to be seen holding hands with that crew in public, and geek tragedy Sep 2014 #9