The Washington Note: "Washington intelligence, military and foreign policy circles are abuzz today with speculation that the President, yesterday or in recent days, sent a secret Executive Order to the Secretary of Defense and to the Director of the CIA to launch military operations against Syria and Iran.
The President may have started a new secret, informal war against Syria and Iran without the consent of Congress or any broad discussion with the country."
What's the Brit word? Gobsmacked?
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me too.
I'd be SO proud of the admin if it did just that. Question--have the last two years been just the needed word to the world: "Well, we tried and tried to do this peacefully" --?
Take a look at Spengler's latest.
Buddy,
Mohammed at ITM has a good piece up. I get a kick out of the Kurd's applause.
It was kind of the President to outline Maliki's assurances of support. I hope that the translation into Arabic was complete - just so the Iraqis aren't confused about what their PM is saying to the Americans.
There were two things in that ITM piece that should be noted:
(1)The violence isn't necessarily sectarian--it's strangers to the neighborhoods that get killed, no matter whether sunni or shia.
(2)Sistani basically said the militias should be disarmed.
And, after reading Spengler's piece, I think many American's emphasis on 'sectarian' violence and 'civil war', including his, is a non-sequitor.
It's the violence itself that matters, not who is killing whom. People just get sick of the violence. Period.
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