en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/509448 Comments by RickR30 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/05/the-syrian-crucible/#IDComment285094884 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. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 05:46:05 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/05/the-syrian-crucible/#IDComment285094884 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/05/no-decision-on-war-yet-but-obama-vows-lockstep-support-for-israel/#IDComment285084141 Good to know that "our" president is now officially the spokesperson of the suicidal theocratic israeli regime. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 05:26:47 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/05/no-decision-on-war-yet-but-obama-vows-lockstep-support-for-israel/#IDComment285084141 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/02/israel-ramps-up-push-for-attack-on-iran/#IDComment283270108 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. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 01:34:21 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/02/israel-ramps-up-push-for-attack-on-iran/#IDComment283270108 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/02/justice-dept-fbi-say-interest-in-online-privacy-an-indicator-of-terrorism/#IDComment283084733 We must all be terrorists now. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:47:47 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/02/justice-dept-fbi-say-interest-in-online-privacy-an-indicator-of-terrorism/#IDComment283084733 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/02/can-ron-paul-be-tamed/#IDComment283081722 If that's indeed the case then Romney looks like he's in the pockets of Big Insurance, like other Republican governors. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:42:59 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/02/can-ron-paul-be-tamed/#IDComment283081722 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/02/israel-ramps-up-push-for-attack-on-iran/#IDComment283079798 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." Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:39:42 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/02/israel-ramps-up-push-for-attack-on-iran/#IDComment283079798 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/02/israeli-vice-pm-we-can-hit-all-of-irans-nuclear-sites/#IDComment283076068 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. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:33:22 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/02/israeli-vice-pm-we-can-hit-all-of-irans-nuclear-sites/#IDComment283076068 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/02/can-ron-paul-be-tamed/#IDComment282873172 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. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:09:52 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/02/can-ron-paul-be-tamed/#IDComment282873172 http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2012/02/02/he-who-defends-everything-defends-nothing/#IDComment282548771 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. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:17:33 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2012/02/02/he-who-defends-everything-defends-nothing/#IDComment282548771 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/02/can-ron-paul-be-tamed/#IDComment282540384 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. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:02:39 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/02/can-ron-paul-be-tamed/#IDComment282540384 http://original.antiwar.com/bwalker/2012/02/01/how-the-swiss-opted-out-of-war/#IDComment282196412 Great article. It all makes sense, is simple, would save us trillions, would solve a whole lot of problems, and would return the US to greatness. And yet, now one in Washington cares. So exactly what is DC doing, what are their aims, or better who are they working for? The establishment does nothing but take one stupid decision after another to ruin this country. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:05:05 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/bwalker/2012/02/01/how-the-swiss-opted-out-of-war/#IDComment282196412 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/01/british-terror-plot-four-islamists-planned-to-try-to-blow-up-a-toilet/#IDComment282094815 Better extradite them to the US so they can be tortured an infinity of times and held indefinitely. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 19:49:56 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/01/british-terror-plot-four-islamists-planned-to-try-to-blow-up-a-toilet/#IDComment282094815 http://original.antiwar.com/porter/2012/02/01/dempsey-told-israelis-us-wont-join-their-war-on-iran/#IDComment281513799 One can only hope that's what Dempsey said. And how much is this little exercise going to cost the taxpayers? Cancel the damn thing and save us some money we don't even have. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:24:06 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/porter/2012/02/01/dempsey-told-israelis-us-wont-join-their-war-on-iran/#IDComment281513799 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/01/aclu-sues-for-records-on-assassination-of-us-citizens/#IDComment281512145 Go ACLU. I'd never thought I'd say that. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:21:22 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/01/aclu-sues-for-records-on-assassination-of-us-citizens/#IDComment281512145 http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/02/01/another-war-on-the-cheap/#IDComment281503532 In trying to cover all the bases, the israeli amoeba and its countless pseudopods sound more and more ridiculous as they are caught up in their war hysteria. So Iran is an existential threat that can't wait to get its hands on a nuke for the sole purpose of wiping our beloved israel off the map. But, if the dynamic duo from hell US/israel attacks first then Iran isn't going to do anything in response, they'll just sit there and take it, so it's ok to launch the first strike? What, the Iranians are going to be in such of awe of an attack announced for years that they won't dare to retaliate? This sounds like a joke. But hey, Americans aren't all that bright and won't even notice the glaring contradiction. I can see though the bipartisan scum in DC and the cheerleader bimbos in the third rate media we have fully buying whatever israel is selling. It's doesn't even go through the little higher brain functions they have left. If it comes from isreal it must have come straight from jehova, and bibi is the new moses, the prophet and lawgiver of wartime laws because as the newtster sayz, we have to make a distinction between ordinary justice and justice in a time of perennial war against all evil! Heck, maybe this war, too, just like the war against Iraq, will pay itself with all that Iranian oil, which will then flow free from embargoes in all the 3 refineries the oil mobsters left in the US and the prices of oil and gasoline will plummet. And Obama will be hailed as a world hero and win a second nobel peace price for averting the second jewish holocaust and the green revolutionaries will shower our troops in flower petals. And maybe, just maybe, next time israeli and US leaders meet, the israelis won't abuse, insult, and slap the Americans in the face. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:06:32 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/02/01/another-war-on-the-cheap/#IDComment281503532 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/01/31/iraq-in-retrospect/#IDComment280536617 A veritable neoconian cakewalk! And a useful trial run for the real war of chaos: Iran. How else is our little friend going to rule in the region unless we bomb everyone around them to the stone age. There are only two things that guide US foreign and domestic policy: the caprice of likud and money. Iraq fulfilled both. Iraq was the beginning of our securing the realm for israel's hegemony in the region and it provided the weapons mobsters with tons of money. Mission accomplished indeed! Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:43:09 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/01/31/iraq-in-retrospect/#IDComment280536617 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/30/israeli-officials-attack-on-iran-must-come-by-summer/#IDComment279957335 The suicidal theocratic israeli government is going to ruin the world. What will it take for the world to stand up to these primitives? Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:45:16 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/30/israeli-officials-attack-on-iran-must-come-by-summer/#IDComment279957335 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/30/turkey-will-resist-western-pressure-to-ban-iranian-oil/#IDComment279951917 The EU's loss will be someone else's gain. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:37:25 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/30/turkey-will-resist-western-pressure-to-ban-iranian-oil/#IDComment279951917 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/01/29/putting-israel-first-2/#IDComment278330835 If they can't get US boys and girls to rush to put their lives on the line for the wishes of israel's government, then israelis can try another strategy, which worked once before. Get Americans in the mood for revenge. That of course would require an attack against America/Americans in some fashion allegedly perpetrated by the Revolutionary Guard with support from Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinians, Syria, etc. And we know how things go from there... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:48:41 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/01/29/putting-israel-first-2/#IDComment278330835 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/23/supreme-court-installing-gps-trackers-on-peoples-cars-requires-a-warrant/#IDComment273163461 Good to know that every once in a while the Supreme Court gets it right. Now, won't they do something about NDAA? Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:59:29 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/23/supreme-court-installing-gps-trackers-on-peoples-cars-requires-a-warrant/#IDComment273163461