Though I agree with everything Phil wrote, there is one exception; his theory on Hoplite Warfare.

I am not sure what histories he is referencing but the ones I have read suggest an opposite form of thinking on the part of Greek Hoplites.

One, the veterans always were to the rear of a phalanx so that they could ensure that new recruits would not retreat.

Two, most Hoplites were merely simply farmers or tradesmen who often did not have the monies to purchase extravagant protective armor so those that did have armor would have been few within a Hoplite phalanx.

Three, ancient Hoplite warfare was often quite quick as wielding heavy swords and shields was quite exhausting. Most engagements lasted no longer than 10 to 30 minutes after which an opponent would retreat yielding the battlefield. As a result, the danger of death and wounding was actually for only a short period of time.

Four, when an opponent did resign from the battlefield, Hoplite honor on the battlefield prohibited the winner of the engagement to pursue their defeated opponent.

This is a description of the original Hoplite technique on the battlefield. As both Sparta and Athens rose in prominence over the years, both City States engaged in far more serious warfare both between themselves and the Persians, lending itself to much bloodier conflicts than that of the original Hoplite warfare. However, by this time ancient Hoplite warfare had evolved into a more deadly form of conflict.

And surely, Alexander the Great and his Macedonians were quite adept at inflicting quite a bit of pain on their enemies. However, the Macedonians also made greater use of cavalry since they actually developed the techniques of successful, combined-arms combat.

If the information and characterization in Wiki is correct, then you are right, he was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_Revolutionary_Youth_League

How do you know he was a communist long before the war?

HCM was a communist long before the war. So there are two options: one, he changed ideologies like he changed hats, or two, he was always a communist and tried to make nice with America the way Tito made nice with the British.

Speaking of ChickenHawks, let us reflect upon Mitt Romney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney

QUOTE FROM ABOVE :

. . . . supported Nixon’s ongoing Cambodian Incursion as a sincere attempt to bring the war to a conclusion.[48] During the U.S. military draft for the Vietnam War, Romney sought and received two 2-S student deferments, then a 4-D ministerial deferment while living in France as a Mormon missionary. He later sought and received two additional student deferments.[27][49] When those ran out, the result of the December 1969 draft lottery ensured he would not be selected.[27][49][50].

Mitt has five sons, and based on prior reading I am confident in stating that his strong and successful five sons have not served their country in any military capacity — unless, perhaps, they have profited financially from “America’s Forever War” .

In my next comment, I will examine the ChickenHawk Donald Trump from the same perspective.

Signed

SnowieGeorgie

Considering the amount of money involved – both from weapon-dealers and oilmen in US/EU/Israel – the whistleblowers could be dealt in a most decisive matter by the war profiteers.
I wonder, would these whistle-blowers be branded “anti-semitic?”

“At the time of his death, Hastings had been working on a story about CIA Director John Brennan.” http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/06/20/hastings-lessons-from-the-grave-have-we-learned-anything/
Brennan was of course present in Kiev when the StateDept.-created Junta had decided to initiate a civil war in Ukraine. The same Brennan that is “largely responsible for chaos” in Syria: https://www.sott.net/article/338992-CIA-Director-John-Brennan-largely-responsible-for-chaos-in-Syria-not-Russia
“CIA-backed FSA elements will openly become al-Nusra; while Special Forces-backed FSA elements like the New Syrian Army will fight alongside the Assad regime. Then the CIA’s militia and the Special Forces’ militia will kill each other.” Well, that says it all: the U.S. has created a ‘monster’ which it cannot control if it wanted to (and Ashton Carter and John Brennan have no interest to “control it” — they still seek to use it). https://consortiumnews.com/2016/09/29/how-the-us-armed-up-syrian-jihadists/
“By way of deception, thou shalt do war,” Mossad/CIA

Only Ho Chi Minh knew what was in his mind and whether he was ‘left’ or not. Perhaps he was both: a blend of nationalism and communism/socialism. The following tells me he was a nationalist first.

{In 1945 and 1946, Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh wrote at least eight letters to US President Harry Truman and the State Department asking for America’s help in winning Vietnamese independence from the French. He wrote that world peace was being endangered by French efforts to reconquer Indochina and he requested that “the four powers” (US, Soviet Union, China, and Great Britain) intervene in order to mediate a fair settlement and bring the Indochinese issue before the United Nations. This was a remarkable repeat of history. In 1919, at the Versailles Peace Conference following the First World War, Ho Chi Minh had appealed to US Secretary of State Robert Lansing (uncle of Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles, whom Lansing appointed to the US delegation) for America’s help in achieving basic civil liberties and an improvement in the living conditions for the colonial subjects of French Indochina. His plea was ignored. His pleas following the Second World War were likewise ignored, with consequences for Vietnam, the rest of Indochina, and the United States we all know only too well. Ho Chi Minh’s pleas were ignored because he was, after all, some sort of communist; yet he and his Vietminh followers had in fact been long-time admirers of the United States. Ho trusted the United States more than he did the Soviet Union and reportedly had a picture of George Washington and a copy of the American Declaration of Independence on his desk. According to a former American intelligence officer, Ho sought his advice on framing the Vietminh’s own declaration of independence. The actual declaration of 1945 begins: “All men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.}

https://williamblum.org/essays/read/appealing-to-the-united-states-is-not-very-appealing

“The Revolutionary War was won under the Articles of Confederation.

The Treaty of Paris was signed under the A. of C.”

I don’t believe your first sentence is true, since the A of C were promulgated around the same time as our victory at Yorktown. The government that conducted the war was more loosely organized than that under the A of C; the A of C was a small step towards centralization, that presaged the Constitution.

I’m 90% sure that your second sentence is correct.

I think Ho Chi Minh was left leaning from the beginning.

“passivist” is a real word, and not a synonym for pacifist. I think passivists might tend towards pacifism, though.

PHIL,

ON THE SCOTT HORTON SHOW – you said that American intelligence assets in Syria were “considering going public” to say that Trump’s airstrikes were made under false pretenses, and that their evidence showed that the Russian assessment/explanation was correct.

So now, with it looking like a one-off symbolic gesture, this will be swept under the rug? The “Assad committed this horrendous act” meme will be left intact, thus paving the way for his removal and Syria’s dismemberment?

I know these guys/gals have families to feed and other considerations, and whistleblowing is not a piece of cake, but there must be some way to do this. How about a closed-door hearing? Can you approach Ron Paul and Tulsi?

The military is the bloody tip of the spear for the jews. Your hologram of democracy is merely ceremonial- you are inherited property and are RULED by the likes of AIPAC, the Atlantic Council, CFR ,CIA, NATO.
People like you are naval gazers.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.

You should hurry down to the recruitment center and enlist in the globohomo juggernaut.

It may not matter as much as one thinks whether a politician has served in the military in terms of their view of American intervention.

Look at nutcase Sen. John McCain who wants America to be engaged in every war on Earth.

Look at the nutcase generals around Trump.

Also, America went to war in Vietnam even though there was a draft at the time.

Hey Duke,

If somebody tells me a lie that you rape and kill children and I stab you in the chest, however honourably I may consider the deed it would be me who acted dishonourably by killing an innocent, correct?

No, the act, as long as you were convinced you were killing a child molester, would have been honorable, noble even. The dishonorable act would have been the lie. And if you were to kill the liar, once you’d discovered you had been deceived, then that too would be honorable and noble.

It all boils down to what’s in our hearts, and minds. When Pat Tillman suited up to go kill the bastards who did 9/11, he was acting honorably and nobly because of what was in his heart.

consider, six months after 9/11, how many men on the planet would have relished the opportunity to put a bullet between Osama Bin Laden’s eyes? A billion? Two? More perhaps?

Even I was once confused about who did that heinous and unspeakable crime, perhaps you were too. If all those men had been deceived (and they were ; ), were they all dishonorable at the time for harboring murderous intentions against an innocent (of that crime anyways) man?
Or were they perfectly honorable men who desired to kill a monster?

It’s what’s in our hearts that count.

here’s a scene from the movie Joyeux Noel

as these boys grow up, they’ll be relentlessly barraged with the necessity of killing the evil people who threaten their nations with harm. When they arrive at military age, they’re chastened by their whole nation and families and communities to go kill the evil Germans/British/French, (whatever). Are these boys dishonorable when they kill other young men based on the lies and treachery of their leaders? Would you condemn every man ever engaged in a war? Because he may have been lied to?

It’s very rare that I disagree with you Rurik, you write some tremendous comments, but I’m inclined to agree with Stonehands on this one.

I also enjoy your contributions and insights very much Duke, and Stonehands too. I just can’t agree with you guys on this one.

Cheers to you too sir!

BTW, now that Trump has proven to be a neocon war criminal pig, I sure do hope more young American men and women will refuse to fight and die for Israel, but if they’re hopelessly duped, and do go toss their young lives away to serve the Fiend, then I won’t condemn them for it, I’ll condemn Trump.

All prior and subsequent commenters please (use an alternative search engine like DuckDuckGo — not as robust but less Borgist than google) to learn about Jacob Schiff, who financed the Japanese to wage war against the Russian monarchy, among the first of a series of nefarious activities that caused death and ruin to millions over the past 100 + years.

Is Jacob Schiff related to US Congressman Adam Schiff, who is leading the charge to hang Putin around Trump’s neck and sink them both?

“Very acute observation! There is plenty about Jacob “The Most Influential Man in U.S. History “,”

Thanks for the edification guys.

The demented old war monger (McCain), the comfort woman for the IDF (Graham), and the neocon cabana boy (Rubio) are doubtless jumping for joy right now.

Funny. I hate those three whores.

where did you pick up that nonsense?

At Bill Kristol’s shore house?

Very acute observation! There is plenty about Jacob “The Most Influential Man in U.S. History “, even on Google. No secret at all, much praise all over. There are not many data about Adam’s genealogy (born into a Jewish family), but his career is a clear indication he is related closely to the clan.

Schiff’s granddaughter, Dorothy Schiff, was the owner and Publisher of the New York Post for over 40 years. She once claimed to have “had a relationship” with Franklin D Roosevelt.
Kareena Gore-Schiff, the daughter of former Senator, almost US President, and Global Warming con man Al Gore, is married to Andrew Schiff, the great great grandson of Jacob.

The demented old war monger (McCain), the comfort woman for the IDF (Graham), and the neocon cabana boy (Rubio) are doubtless jumping for joy right now. America fires missiles like so much candy, this might not mean much, but so far Trump is proving to be a major disappointment.

If somebody tells me a lie that you rape and kill children and I stab you in the chest, however honourably I may consider the deed it would be me who acted dishonourably by killing an innocent, correct?

Sadly, Tillman had the very best of intentions but he was willfully deceived so his actions were wrong and not honourable. He might have used the experiences of previous conflicts prosecuted on lies, such as Vietnam, as a warning against being lied to.

The saddest part, in addition to the loss of a seemingly very good young man (and many thousands more), the deceivers went unpunished and continue with their retinue of deceptions to this very day.

It’s very rare that I disagree with you Rurik, you write some tremendous comments, but I’m inclined to agree with Stonehands on this one. Cheers

To ameliorate your confusion:
On April 4th,”the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law “On Rehabilitating Victims of Political Repression,” which provides for pension payments for veterans of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Before and during the Great Patriotic War, these organizations closely coordinated their operations with Nazi Germany’s special forces…”

https://www.therussophile.org/ukraines-parliament-votes-to-pay-nazi-collaborators-bonus-pensions.html/

http://www.stalkerzone.org/verkhovna-rada-approved-additional-pension-payments-hitlers-collaborators/

As the Lobby (and Mr. Groysman & Mrs. Nuland-Kagan) would say, “never again.”

Are these Nazi collaborators 95 yr olds dragged from their nursing homes or the present day Ukranians Saker claims are Nazis?

So many Nazis and neo Nazis lurking about the world. I’m confused.

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Philip Giraldi
Thank you for writing about the important Syria war topic.
There are many unstable people to influence lives as Dick Cheney does. How does he have any audience? Does he blackmail politicians?

Stonehands
You display profound ignorance and arrogance writing about military men. People from military families and with military friends will tell you that they are honorable and they serve their country. Perhaps you are just a troll?

Why dance around the subject of race? Why not just say black morons? My brother did everything he could to stay out of Vietnam. But when he had to join he joined up with some elite force of Marines, not the black moron army.

He knew the survival rates of Marines was much higher.

So this is Trump’s fault? What isn’t Trump’s faul?

Assuredly yes!

Lost in all this yowling by the Democrats is why old Vlad would prefer the Donald to the ghastly Hillary, who at least can be bought and bought cheaply. I suppose one could make a plausible case that Hillary is dangerously erratic and rather dull-witted, as evidenced by her two “terms” as Wily Willie’s “co-president,” during which the old harridan effed up everything she touched, from letting our embassy staff get slaughtered while desperately calling for help, to her utterly idiotic attempt to remake our entire healthcare system, unquestionably the best in the world.

This vicious, none-too-bright, and neurotic old harridan is a 0ne-woman train wreck.

“our politicians and media” are the result of careful selection, when the principled and independent-minded have been carefully weeded out. The “cultivators” forgot that their own well-being depends on the latter kind. It seems that unless the “cultivators” kids start dying out of the US-provoked wars and their unintended consequences, the stupid order (of ambitious opportunists) will continue to persist. If the CIA suddenly has a choice of competent and honest personnel, the organization would reject the choice in horror because that would mean the end of free lunch for the “deciders” and their operatives down the ladder. They thrive on thievery and lies.

All prior and subsequent commenters please (use an alternative search engine like DuckDuckGo — not as robust but less Borgist than google) to learn about Jacob Schiff, who financed the Japanese to wage war against the Russian monarchy, among the first of a series of nefarious activities that caused death and ruin to millions over the past 100 + years.

Here’s one for starters: http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/wars/nameless/3.shtml

Is Jacob Schiff related to US Congressman Adam Schiff, who is leading the charge to hang Putin around Trump’s neck and sink them both?

Is the sudden tsunami against O Reily is a crude message to FOX to ditch Trump’s Russophilia

but was young and ignorant/deceived

is that the same as being dishonorable?

do you realize how many people in the world are ignorant and deceived?

Rurik, what is a woman [ Lynch] doing in the proximity of a war zone other than being a liability? This is part of the smashing of the pillars of society- this cancerous political correctness.

Ok, so Tillmman became “aware” after his enlistment- and in his demise became honorable- but was young and ignorant/deceived [as I stated] to think serving the Fiend was acceptable behavior.

All prior and subsequent commenters please google “the Wolfowitz Doctrine”. There is where you will find answers to why we are making Russia an enemy.

There are no “Honorable” men in the military.

there are two people I bring up occasionally because they both are what I consider American heroes and both of them served honorably and then were cynically lied about by the Deepstate/CIA/Zio-Fiend in an attempt to further exploit them for perfidious reasons.

Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch. You know their stories, and you know that these two simple Americans are as honorable as they get. One of them is dead because he was honorable. And I suspect that there are very many more like them, who quietly serve honorably. But perhaps once you get to a certain level, you must sacrifice your honor to advance. IDK, because I don’t run in those circles. But I do know men who’ve served and are honest men, deep down.

What I’m thinking about right now are the generals who Lindsey Graham was grilling in a Senate hearing awhile back and demanding to know why these generals haven’t shot down Russian jets in Syria. And the generals were replying that they were not authorized to start a war with Russia. And Graham was clearly vexed by their obstinate instance on respecting the chain of command. I don’t know if those generals were honorable or not, but compared to Lindsey Graham, they looked positively Cincinnatus

We chose between making America great again, or a woman turn to be president. Most of us men and women rather have a better economic future than having a woman President because of her gender not because of her agenda.

The allegation by Rubio that they discovered an IP address from Russia can only make sense if we did not discover the week before that the CIA uses spy techniques that leaves a fingerprint of foreign nations. The exposure of Hillary’s gang emails that shows racist and anti Semitic comments could have made the young PC nazis avoid voting for her. If that is true, why don’t we compare that defamation of Hillary through her own email with the defamation of Trump by NBC pu-ssy grabbing story, the Trump university, the Trump steaks, and the 24×7 lies from the New York Times, Washington Post, and all the mainstream press. There was nonstop hate campaign against Trump not only in the US, but around the world. At the end of the day it was obvious that there were two messages 1- We want to make America great again by bring more jobs and having better trades and less wars. 2- It is about time that a woman be president, and especially this one who spent her life agitating for socialist liberal issues like gender identities and race bating. The American people chose to have a better economic future than having a woman as president. End of story. Get use to it. Hillary’s loss against the inarticulate businessman is similar to McCaign loss to a socialist community activist with a Muslim name. Both Hillary and McCain are more of empty suits than they portrayed.

Valarie Flame was “outed” to warn a cabal in the Dept. of State that their illegal trading of nuclear material to Turkey was being followed by the CIA front, Brewster Jennings, with likely protection to follow. To think it had anything to do with a trip to Niger by her husband is absurd.

No no, do as the Zionists do in Gaza, targeted assassinations in DC and NY. This would include only about 150-200 Neocon/Cabalist/ZOG-ed goons and keep beautiful Washington in tact.

Thanks Robin.

It’s sad our politicians and media persist in being the least believable on the planet. Rather like a flock of parrots in an echo chamber.

Wish there were more like Robert Fisk and Sy Hersh.

Trump was elected promising to seek more peace. But it is Americans (aka gringos or yankees) who brought this on themselves, by accepting the rule of money changing thieves and plutocrat monsters. They (me too) accepted government “schooling” for their children even after they expelled prayer, the Bible, and the 10 commandments and began teaching that Genesis One was wrong, that God did not create the world.

So naturally the next generation got a reprobate mind and was powerless against such logical inanities as pretending the sex chromosomes are meaningless for deciding sex, while other chromosomes deserve special treatment, and “democracy” means fines and prison for exercising your religion.

War is indeed an easy decision for the American ruling class since they personally don’t fight in them or have any loved ones that do. And Jews and Jewish neocons might fight, but only for Israel.

That’s an interesting point. Up to WWI the ruling classes across the world (i.e. the Aristocracy) had strong military traditions and provided the officer corps who led from the front and often had disproportionate casualties.

In fact, many of Britain’s great estates were founded on land awarded by the Crown to successful military leaders e.g. the Dukedom of Marlborough – 1st Duke of Marlborough: John Churchill – Winston Churchill’s forbearer. It was understood that Aristocracy = Military leadership and they accepted that as their traditional responsibility.

The new and unusual situation in the US, is that an Anglo military, rooted in the traditional Anglo power structure (that no longer exists), is taking its orders from America’s newly installed commercial/Zionist Plutocracy (the 0,01%) that has a completely different world view.

“…Some of us think that individuals who see opportunity for themselves in the service of their country as being in the “top level.”

Aww…what cockamamie patriotic tripe.

There are no “Honorable” men in the military. Deceived, yes. Ignorant, yes…but not honorable. They are there to collect a paycheck and wait for their pensions to kick in, just like the rest of the leeches in government. The US is completely lawless now. The military exists to enforce the political will of their puppet masters; that’s not honorable.

but rather just hope to act as support staff until their time is up and they can finally afford college.

By and large, going to college is as stupid as joining the military.

RT News has far better coverage of this than any other “news” outlets that I checked on. The Anglosphere is surely being led by the nose to more war, greater austerity and authoritarianism.

There can be little doubt that Russia would roll over NATO forces in Europe without too much fuss or delay. The ego-driven US Generals who see NATO troops the way that the Romans viewed their auxiliaries would talk loud and tough and very likely escalate. Russians having suffered over 25 million casualties within living memory in The Great Patriotic War are unlikely to backdown so Giraldi as usual, is not far off the mark, if at all.

F. William Engdahl, “The Dangerous Deception Called The Trump Presidency”
@http://journal-neo.org/2016/11/25/the-dangerous-deception-called-the-trump-presidency/

I rest my case.

Now that is the best question I’ve come across in a long time. I look forward to hearing suggestions on how to address this. I have suggested that the death penalty, by firing squad, for public officials who betray the public trust and commit treason should be written into law and carried out.

Why thank you dear Mr Wiz. A compliment is all the more treasured when from one such as yourself.

Here’s the official UN press release.

Chemical-Weapons Attack…..
Syria’s Representative Says His Country Faces Twin-Aggression by Permanent Members, Terrorists Enjoying Their Support

https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sc12777.doc.htm

Part of Statement by LIU JIYEI (China):
“….comments by the United Kingdom’s representative were not to be tolerated, adding that his statement did not “hold water”. China hoped that delegate would stop abusing the Council because such actions were not in the interest of Syrians.”

2014 BBC News Caught Staging FAKE Chemical Attack In Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLcRxDfqBg9aDYiI13PRimygPjn0EZVYRG&v=p54hHhlLjRk

See straight from Walking Dead acting of “gassing victims” at 2:37

Trump, the dangerous clown:

That looks like the case. RT has a good article that shows Trump’s tweets in 2013 admonishing Obama not to go to war over the then chemical attacks since it wasn’t worth it. When confronted about that tweet and his recent pronouncements he said he’s “changed and is flexible on the issue”. If he’s flexible on Syria then he’s flexible on controlling our borders and building a wall and the rest of his signature issues that got him elected.

Trump went from brash outsider to business as usual “invade the world” insider in less than 100 days.

Our crowd of politicians is fond of talking about war as if it were some kind of diversion being featured on a monopoly board and that is precisely because they have no skin in the game.

Even Stalin had a son (Yakov) who fought on the front lines until being captured by the Germans. Stalin even rebuffed German attempts to trade him for a German field marshal saying that his son was no different than the millions of other Russian sons that were captured.

War is indeed an easy decision for the American ruling class since they personally don’t fight in them or have any loved ones that do. And Jews and Jewish neocons might fight, but only for Israel.

Bannon is out. War on Assad is in. Susan Rice is fading from the news cycle. Bombing in St. Petersburg is already forgotten.

The Lobby should be proud with this fruit of its many efforts:
“Ukraine’s parliament votes to pay Nazi collaborators “bonus pensions,” http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/04/ukraines-parliament-votes-to-pay-nazi.html
Beautiful. Should we expect the words of delight from the Jewish Community of the US and from the US veterans and taxpayers, whose contribution have been supporting the Ukrainian pro-nazi government.

Trump, the dangerous clown:

“It( the fake chemical attack) crossed a lot of lines with me. When you kill innocent children – innocent babies – with chemical gas… that goes beyond red lines,”

Trump told reporters on Wednesday.
Trump said the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria “cannot be tolerated,” but he did not say what the US might do in response. He blamed the incident on the government in Damascus.

“These heinous acts by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated,” added Trump. “My attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much. What happened yesterday is unacceptable to me.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/383624-trump-syria-red-line/

Russia vetoes US co-authored resolution against Syria

http://theduran.com/russia-vetoes-us-co-authored-resolution-against-syria/

Russia has just vetoed a resolution proposed jointly by the US, UK and France. The resolution would have condemned Syria for a chemical weapons attack near Idlib.
The US, UK and France have been exposed as relying on fake news sources, including the al-Qaeda affiliated White Helmets, as a basis for their condemnation, in spite of the fact that the clear evidence indicates that the chemical weapons in question belonged to a terrorist group and not the Syrian government which forfeited its chemical weapons stock in 2013.

ZUSA, ZUK and France have been supporting Wahhabi nutjobs in Syria since 2011.

I don’t think I want to go to your website.

“Delivery method of chemical weapons has NOT BEEN DETERMINED”

Amen.

Have we learned nothing? WMD 2002-03? “Slam dunk”? “Smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud”? “Intelligence failure (sorry about the tens of thousands killed, the trillions spent).

Condi Rice was asked if, knowing the absence of WMD and what would happen post invasion, whether she would still have invaded Iraq. Her response? Yes. Saddam was brutal and look on the bright side – Iraq will buy billions in US weapons.

Only Dante knows what circle of Hell she’ll land in.

Well, Robing,
What I can say with 100% certainty is that the Syrian military and government did NOT use chemical weapons against ZUSA’s Wahhabi mercs in Syria, now or ever. This is just garbage in , garbage out. As moa, a retired German army officer says:

Al-Qaeda in Syria and its subordinate “moderate rebels” are being defeated in their last big attack on Hama governate. The Russian defense ministry said that more than 2,000 Jihadis had been killed during the failed attack. Another attack on Latakia was stopped cold by massive Russian air strikes on the staging areas. Al-Qaeda’s back yard in Idleb is under constant air interdiction.
The usual response when under such pressure are incidents of “chemical attacks” “on civilians”. Such is claimed today in Khan Sheikhoun. The video footage, taken (when?) in a White Helmets base, shows “rescuers” spraying water on people who are claimed to have been effected by Sarin. If this were a real chemical incident involving Sarin or similar stuff these unprotected, unprofessional “rescuers” would be heavily effected if not dead.
Conveniently this incident also happens just two days before another international conference on Syria. The heavy media attention is likely the starting shot of a new campaign of CIA support for al-Qaeda in Idleb and a second leg of Turkey’s invasion of Syria.

Good comment and I’d like to add that Ho Chi Minh tried to approach Woodrow Wilson in Paris in 1919 or 20 for assistance in independence but was snubbed.

Uncle Ho fought on the side of the Allies during WW2 thinking that FDR would help his country, but that swine betrayed him too.

He also tried to appeal for help from Truman via letters and at least one telegram but as far as I can tell, the obnoxiously pompous dimwit also snubbed him . Apparently didn’t even bother to respond. Truman did yield to requests for support from the Zionist contingent however….

As for Eisenhower, he wrote,

I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs, who did not agree that had an election been held as of the time of the fighting, possibly 80 percent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader rather than [the French- appointed ex-emperor] Chief of State Bao Dai.

Eisenhower, as you seem already aware, bears a lot of responsibility for the extremely useless carnage in that unfortunate country. Those folks never were a threat to the USA in any shape or form whatever.

“…why on earth…endorse the careless squandering of their young and precious lives on foolish, trumped up wars that are destroying America”

An excellent question, NtD. No reasonable answer (excuse) comes to mind. Wisdom here seems in very short supply.

The more our “ruling class” in Washington has little or nothing to do with the average American or, to be more precise, the class of Americans called upon to fight and die in the wars that are constantly being promoted

It has always been thus.

The Constitution created a ruling class. It serves the aristocracy, not the people. It was never put before the people for ratification.

Patrick Henry left the Convention because he said, ” I smell a rat”. He also said the Constitution would create another empire…

The Federalists were rich Masons who wanted to perpetuate their power.

The Revolutionary War was won under the Articles of Confederation.

The Treaty of Paris was signed under the A. of C.

The putative defect of the Articles was that Congress depended on the goodwill of the States. Gee, how awful…

“It’s logical to think that the Israelis are the perps.”
Agree. They or their loyalists in the US government. The battle for Eretz Israel is approaching; the “chosen” cannot wait to bestow the planet upon cockroaches and bacteria: http://thesaker.is/the-trump-administration-goes-neocon-crazy/

Are you part of the Rehmat team?

Do you allow for the value of time in your assessment that Jews always win?

If your family is X per cent of a given population in Year 1 and X/2 per cent in yeat 50 that perhaps doesn’t count as a win. My understanding is that 1000 years after Jesus lived there were one million fewer Jews. How does that rate?

(You may think they’re catching on, but face it, it’s only fringe types, and we’re in bubbles.

Yes, I think that you are correct. It is even more discouraging because we fringe types are frequently in different bubbles and the distance between those bubbles is greater that the distance between your bubble or my bubble and the “average” American.

[Reviving the ‘Chemical Weapons’ Lie: New US-UK Calls for Regime Change, Military Attack Against Syria]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/reviving-the-chemical-weapons-lie-new-us-uk-calls-for-regime-change-military-attack-against-syria/5583491

Here it comes again. As the enemies of peace continue to pressure a new US President into deeper war commitments overseas, and as Washington’s Deep State works relentlessly opposing Russian moves in Syria at every turn, the war drums have started again – beating harder than ever now, clamouring for a new US-led attack on Syria. This morning we saw the familiar theme emerge, and just in time to provide a convenient backdrop to this week’s Brussels’ ‘Peace Talks’ and conference on “Syria’s Future”.

The US-led ‘Coalition’ prepares to make its end-run into Syria to ‘Retake Raqqa,’ and impose its Safe Zones in order to partition Syria, more media demonization of the Syrian government appears to be needed by the West.

The illiterate racist Zionist ‘president’ with his racist Indian escort at the UN are tearing their fucking throats apart to frame Assad for the chemical attack that has been by the CIA trained terrorists with cooperation of US Trojan dog, Erdogan, in Syria to justify US illegal occupation of Syria and war crimes against humanity.

The last chemical attacked was the work of CIA trained terrorists with the help of Turkey, US Trojan dog. Turkey like Saudi Arabia would not provide chemical weapon to CIA terrorists without CIA permission and knowledge.
How many times do these illiterate war criminals want to use FALSE FLAG to frame victims? Russia and China should apply a piece of the war criminals’ own medicine, meaning to bomb them NOW. These criminals have bombed many countries and have killed millions of people. It is the time themselves receive a piece of their own work.

The world cannot tolerate any longer. These terrorists in US – Israel- Britain have killed millions of people and there is NO end to it soon. The world is fed up. Pimps in the business of brothel house, escort, and Hotel are ignorant to suffering of their victims. They are not even interested in reading about it. They are illiterate salesmen.

It’s logical to think that the Israelis are the perps.The chemical weapons attack will cause America to depose Assad and to tangle with Iran and Russia. These eventualities are the wet dreams of neocons. More American kids killed on behalf of eretz Israel and the Israeli populace skates. Could anything be more evil?

IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION NEEDED:

THERE IS NO PROOF WHAT CAUSED SYRIA CHEMICAL WEAPONS EXPLOSION IN SYRIA

We voted TRUMP for Peace, Justice, and Truth.
Trump is getting bad advice. Or did he plan to attack Syria all along???

Testimony (and NOT by the Russians) at UN today:

“Delivery method of chemical weapons has NOT BEEN DETERMINED”

“… lucky that problems aren’t far worse than they are.”

Err, … easy for you to say bud, tell that to the hundreds of thousand dead and millions on the run!

Bannon is on his way out. The Trump “revolution” is over.

trump has been taken over by the neo cons or he was just a liar. we will have a continuation of our 1000 year wars for Israel and it sounds like trump will take action against Syria. jews always win even Jesus Christ did not beat them

a jew hater according to jews is anyone who is not a jew

“…a president who will finally govern according to the will of the American people.”

And just what is that? Do they have any clue what they might think, if they hadn’t been saturated with New Speak , Fake News, etc.? Why do most Americans think that Russia hacked the election? (You may think they’re catching on, but face it, it’s only fringe types, and we’re in bubbles. I’ve been personally dismayed that supposedly bright, educated people, including some who, I thought, were somewhat ‘woke’ have totally bought into the Russia scare.) As we circle the drain, what will surface from the intellectual chaos?

If you like long, rambling discussions and are near New York, this might be your thing:

The Post Political Condition – Trump, Brexit, the Middle East… What Next?
5 pm an extended panel discussion, then a jazz concert from 9 pm
5pm Sunday, 30 April

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2017/4/4/mezvinsky-kiely-cohen-lesher-atzmon-conference-theatre-80-nyc

“In the post-political universe much of humanity has been reduced to serve the interests of big money and oligarchy. Left and Right have become indistinguishable and meaningless. The freedom to think openlyis now within the domain of nostalgia. Our Western Liberal ‘utopia’ has turned into an Orwellian catastrophe , and we the people, have been reduced into mere consumers. We are left bewildered and impoverished.”

Leave it to us commenters to scream out the word, J*w!

Will it be permissible for some commenters to scream out the word, J*w-hater?

I think PG was trying to be funny but I see your point from this angle. I am a Buchanan devotee. Pat has been painted by some in the ‘controlled’ MSM as a Nazi, the butt of many ‘main stream’ comedians jokes. I don’t want to go into the history of PJB but suffice it to say he survived and flourished but he paid a price and some of the ‘comedians’ to this day still make snide jokes & snarky remarks aimed at him. Now PG doesn’t have the fame of PJB but/and if he wants to be a ‘serious’ voice in these serious maters he can’t scream Joo all the time, he has to ‘be careful’ just as someone like PJB unfortunately had to be.
Leave it to us commenters to scream out the word, J*w!

Your right of course, lol. She is nominally the head of the ‘Christian Democrats’ so I figured she could respect herself and her country and it’s borders a little more if she has a neighbor with some more backbone (Le Pen) than the shill that’s there now, ‘Hollandaise sauce’.

Rod Dreher: Raised a Methodist, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1993. He wrote widely in the Catholic press, but covering the Roman Catholic Church’s child sex abuse scandal, starting in 2002, led him to question his Catholicism, and on October 12, 2006, he announced his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy.

All those ~55K American (mostly) young men KIA and 10s of 1,000s of them WIA/maimed, living on streets, etc and about 3 million Vietnamese killed – for what?

for war profit$

I can’t argue with anything you wrote

the last war(s) that America fought that I agree with would be wars against Rothschild; the Revolutionary War and the war of 1812.

I’m not an expert, and there may have been some other skirmishes or wars that were fought for honorable or at least understandable reasons, but I can’t think of any right now. Certainly not the world warsⓊ (And the “Civil” war was unnecessary, imho. Slavery was dying its ignoble death without the necessity of a war. Which didn’t even end slavery. What ended slavery was the moral outrage of the people for that evil institution. Not the war).

perhaps we’ve finally managed to get a president who will finally govern according to the will of the American people. I just wrote a post where I pointed out that the American people always vote for the anti-war president, and then always get betrayedⓊ.

“Russiagate” certainly seems to scare some people! Not a single day now passes without an article appearing somewhere on the US internet trying to sweep it under the carpet! “No evidence” is an argument for a court of law, and even there, lack of evidence is not proof of innocence. In the court of public opinion, both Trump and Putin must prove their innocence and no evidence simply suggests that the evidence has been successfully covered up.
Mr Giraldi proceeds to make a series of assertions for which he, well … produces no evidence! Why would a conflict between Russia and NATO over Ukraine be WWIII? Why would it be a “nuclear holocaust”? Why would such a conflict involve American soldiers foot-slogging, Vietnam-style? Why does he believe that Trump ever intended to have a “rapprochement with Russia”? So far, he has done nothing that’s favourable to Putin and quite a few things that are unfavourable to him. Actions speak louder than words!

“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” George Orwell

Jun 7, 2013 George Orwell 1984 Newspeak, “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words…”

Considering the fact that wars produce far more deaths and physical destruction than the most violent riot, why is inciting to riot, a punishable crime, while inciting to war, a patriotic American pastime?

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=inciting+to+riot+definition+punishment&view=detail&mid=BC97627336C78788E267BC97627336C78788E267&FORM=VIRE

Merkel? To the right? Yes maybe, hanging from that lamp post just to the right over there.

neo cons= white Christian hating jews. they tried to get rid of the white Christians with the 2 world wars but the people bounce back now their final solution is breeding out whites forever thru mass non white invasions and the white women will do their duty and bed down with the non whites

this guy henry ford and lindburg would have made a great team

The good news is that if we really do go to war with Russia. EVERYONE will be involved.

You made me laugh out loud, sir. What you wrote is a perfect summation of the situation at American Cuckservative. First, Taki got driven out and then Mr Unz ( he will surely write more on this sometime in the future.). No doubt, Pat Buchanan will be terminated when he crosses some cordon political shortly. And, of course, Neocons and Conservatism Inc members often mention Mr Buchanan’s ( remote ) German ancestry, as if it’s evidence of a crime.
I stopped reading it when Mr Unz went and Dreher was installed as website editor. He must be the most absurd cuck not only in America but the Universe. He’s like some smug do-gooder from a Dickens novel.

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Credit where due. Seeing your moniker appended to his post I felt a disobliging addendum to my reply to him rising close to execution. But your brief point is spot on.

I don’t actually recall that tangle. Are you sure you do?

Why so prickly? If there is a top level in the army which might include all generals, staff colonels and a few others but “top level” adequately indicates the genus why shouldn’t “bottom level” be taken to indicate the merely fuzzily defined level of private soldiers and some others who will never rise far iñ rank or specialisation or qualify for the Rangers? Have you a better term? Of course prickliness, perhaps patriotic, could be the answer because some sort of mist before hour eyes seems to have prevented you construing what I actually said correctly. After all I can’t believe you don’t know how badly your country treats the people who would defend you and, per a common UR meme furthers the globalist interests of the 0.1 per cent. What becomes of them and their health when they ate discharged with or without immediately obvious health problems? And what are/have been the proportions of servicemen’s families receiving foodstamps? If you don’t know enough to be ashamed of your country’s treatment of them aren’t you ashamed of your ignorance and indifference.

If that sounds a bit aggressive perhaps it will give you pause before gratuitously saying something as rude but also as fatuous as you do in your last sentence. Do you think thete are more than about half a dozen people whose words you have read on UR whose countries couldn’t – at best – do very well without them?

No but decades of professional and avocational interest in what constitutes good argument and how to put a case means that I really would like to steer those for whom I have goodwill towards less selfdefeating utterance.

If they really are top-level as you say, then why on earth would you endorse the careless squandering of their young and precious lives on foolish, trumped up wars that are destroying America? Pat Tillman springs to mind just as one example.

A wise leader conserves his military strength said Sun Tzu.

I agree. Although in the past conscription did not prevent ZUSA’s warmongering and aggression, I mean, we are speaking of a country that has been at war for over 90% of its existence, I think that in the present day the draft would have a huge impact on making zamericans pay a lot more attention to the wars that their regimes foist upon the world. Already the war in Vietnam proves this point. It’s not that ZUSA’s formerly largely conscript military was inferior to today’s volunteer contract forces. In fact, possibly the opposite may be true. No, it was the resistence of the people Stateside against having their sons sent to die in needless wars for Empire, that marked a prelude of things to come.
How to keep all those dirty imperialistic wars going? With a volunteer contract military, that is how. In the current scenario, wars affect directly only the military servicemen and their families, but that is a relatively small subset of zamerican society. The reality is that our human nature makes most of us care only about things which affect us directly.
So yes, reinstating the draft could certainly be part of a strategy to restrain the warmongering chickenhawks… and that is why it ain’t gonna happen.

He’s making a generic observation that those with no skin in the game have fewer qualms about taking risks with other people’s lives. You can’t possibly be so intent on concern-trolling as to pick a bone over this?