Very interesting. What does Turkey expect to get out of their participation? What do they get out of having failed states all around them? Is just to ingratiate themselves with NATO/EU/US? I won't even bother asking what US goals are. Since US foreign policy is written in tel aviv, and tel aviv aims to bring chaos, death, and destruction, the world over, one has to assume that US wants the same- chaos for the sake of chaos. Truly an age of nihilism- the end of the West.

Good to know that "our" president is now officially the spokesperson of the suicidal theocratic israeli regime.

Could well be that it's about oil, money, and power, like so many times. I don't know if israel is the master of its fate or not, but they sure are master of America's fate, which is why I'm not convinced that israel is just another pawn, like so many others, and so on.

We must all be terrorists now.

If that's indeed the case then Romney looks like he's in the pockets of Big Insurance, like other Republican governors.

This is like watching one of those over-the-top performances by an actress playing a hysterical character spinning out of control.

I'm starting to think that all this noise is just so that the US and Europe will pay israel to not attack Iran. They don't have the guts to attack anyone who actually can fight back. But eventually someone is going to ask their demented theocratic regime what it will take for them not to attack Iran. The answer- "you attack them or give us XXX billions."

Yeah, well mosque yaaaalon, if you can do it, screw it, go for it . Then your suicidal theocratic regime can explain to the world how you are responsible for the deaths of plenty of folks within your country, since only that matters, right? While Iran up to now hasn't done anything.

How do you know what Romney's foreign policy will be? Or his domestic policy. There's a difference between campaign speeches and actual actions once in office- just ask Obama fans. Or compare Romney's discourse with the Newtsters. Romney may turn out worse than he seems to be or better than many fear.

I see Romneycare as evidence that he is not much of an establishment guy. What kind of Republican ends up as governor of Massachusetts and signs a law that benefits the not-so-well-to-do. We can't all be billionaires and pay out of pocket for luxury hospital treatment.

Obama in many cases has the right instincts but he has no leadership and no say in his administration, so he just obeys what his bosses tell him to do. I also think that Romney has the right instincts and imagine he's more of a leader than Obama who won't just do as told but may direct this country in the right place. His Mormonism is an asset, his JD/MBA from Harvard and experience as a vulture capitalist a terrible danger. None of this is to defend Romney, but compared to all the other Republican retards he could be reasonable.

And how much do the next 10 nations pay to "secure their vital interests." Something tells me not a whole lot. The US has an extensively broad definition of "vital interests" and is very unimaginative when it comes to ways to "secure" them- money being the only answer. Just as we thought that shipping crate fulls of money to Afghanistan would guarantee that the tribal lords would sell out their relatives to us. Didn't happen.

Somehow it's very wrong when you have to pay for something everyone else gets for free.

Connecting Paul and Romey also serves the campaign of the official neo-con candidate- the Newtster. Romney can be seen as making advances to the "fringe" movement and Paul can be accused of selling out. Politics is ugly business and even the best of people get stained by it. It's all unclear at this point. In principle Romney and Ron Paul could be a good match, if nothing else at a personal level. Romney as a Mormon must be deep down a good guy, but ambition and opportunism ruin everything. You can't know what you are going to get with him. He's either a sell out himself and will do whatever the establishment wants him to do or he's just playing the game to get to the top and once there will do or try to do what's right. In regard to Rand Paul, I sure hope that at this stage they're not deluding themselves into thinking that he has some chance at great things this early in this political career. The country still needs to get to know him. And he has to be a bit clearer about where he stands on things.