Wesley Clark: "Our friends and allies funded ISIS to destroy Hezbollah"

[Ichingcarpenter]

What would the former head on NATO know....... wink wink

[libdem4life]

1. Yeah, that's what we need. Our taxpayers funding the shelling of half the world. Indeed.

Problem is, Obama has no choice. He's just the puppet head, a bit more unwilling than most of our current political representatives and the candidates on the horizon.

WW III is afoot...will it be a black president who starts it, or a woman president?

We bought right into "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" (to sell arms to). But they change sides and/or evolve way faster than we can adapt and switch out our arms. So many enemies, so few friends. So, we change regimes to get another friend where there was an enemy. See how simple that is?

[CJCRANE]

2. IMO the next president

is scheduled to do the "vision thing" to tell us why we're "spreading democracy" all over the place.

[maddiemom]

3. OH, NOOOOOOOZ

Not that again!

[libdem4life]

4. Yeah, the list of Democracies we've bombed into existence is pretty short.

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. "Spreading democracy"

Don't cha know..."weapons" and "democracy" is the same thing.

[DeSwiss]

5. And we fund our friends and allies, so......

...in effect we're funding terrorism with our tax dollars and children's futures, so they'll have job security.

- Wag, wag.

K&R

[Tom_Foolery]

7. My thoughts, too. n/t

[DeSwiss]

14. !

[frylock]

8. there was an old woman who swallowed a spider..

that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.

[libdem4life]

13. Are you guilty of teaching little ones? I know that one...and I sure am. LOL

But it's been so long, I forgot how the rest of it goes !!

[frylock]

18. nah, i just remember it from my childhood..

my gramma used to sing that for my sister and I.

[maddiemom]

20. She swallowed a fly, then swallowed the spider to catch the fly, then on and on.

[libdem4life]

21. Ah, yes.

[shaayecanaan]

16. there was an old empire that funded the kurds

how absurd, to have funded the kurds
they funded the kurds to fight the baath
what a laugh, to have fought the baath
they funded the baath against iran
what a sham to have fought iran
they're funding iran to fight SI
and as for that only Christ knows why
perhaps they'll die.

[frylock]

17. beautiful!

[libdem4life]

19. Dr. Suess gone political ... kudos.

[avebury]

9. That you be about par for the norm.

People seldom take into consideration the long term consequences of their actions.

[JDPriestly]

10. One of the legal definitions of insanity:

Religious fanaticism can be an insanity defense to a crime.

Here is an example of a case of that sort.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/court-upholds-conviction-of-oakland-mom/Content?oid=2126734

Why in the world anyone would turn to religious fanatics for help in ousting a dictator is beyond me. It is one of the most foolish things that can be done. Lots of zeal. Lots of energy. But very little measure or judgment.

By definition, a religious fanatic is as likely as not to be unrealistic and follow the passion of the moment rather than a well considered strategy.

That is what troubled me about our involvement in Syria. I don't like Assad. I realize that he has been cruel to his people and has stirred up trouble in the region. But his opponents include too many religious zealots, fanatics who cannot be trusted to act rationally. Too many extremists.

What fools got involved in supporting ISIS? Dumbest thing ever.

Sounds like Wesley Clark is right again on this one. He is such a cool-headed strategist. Would have made a great president or secretary of state.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. So nobody has gotten the other connection yet

The Hezbollah is not a great enemy of the US but

Israeli is and

"Our friends and allies funded ISIS to destroy Hezbollah"

[DeSwiss]

12. Yes.

I didn't want to mention it because I thought I'd risk the thread getting locked and recommended to go to the Israel/Palestine Dungeon and fewer would see it.

- I assumed that it was understood......

“Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.

How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. ”

~V for Vendetta

[sammy750]

15. This is what ISIL wants and the GOP is certaining trying to change history. Wake up

parents. The GOP is your real ISIS of the USA