Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
“Assad must go, Obama says.”
So read the headline in The Washington Post, Aug. 18, 2011.
The story quoted President Barack Obama directly:
“The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way. … the time has come for President Assad to step aside.”
France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain’s David Cameron signed on to the Obama ultimatum: Assad must go!
Seven years and 500,000 dead Syrians later, it is Obama, Sarkozy, and Cameron who are gone. Assad still rules in Damascus, and the 2,000 Americans in Syria are coming home. Soon, says President Donald Trump.
But we cannot “leave now,” insists Sen. Lindsey Graham, or “the Kurds are going to get slaughtered.”
Question: Who plunged us into a Syrian civil war, and so managed the intervention that were we to go home after seven years our enemies will be victorious and our allies will “get slaughtered”?
Seventeen years ago, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban for granting sanctuary to al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.
U.S. diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad is today negotiating for peace talks with that same Taliban. Yet, according to former CIA director Mike Morell, writing in The Washington Post today, the “remnants of al-Qaeda work closely” with today’s Taliban.
It would appear that 17 years of fighting in Afghanistan has left us with these alternatives: Stay there, and fight a forever war to keep the Taliban out of Kabul, or withdraw and let the Taliban overrun the place.
Who got us into this debacle?
After Trump flew into Iraq over Christmas but failed to meet with its president, the Iraqi Parliament, calling this a “U.S. disregard for other nations’ sovereignty” and a national insult, began debating whether to expel the 5,000 U.S. troops still in their country.
George W. Bush launched Operation Iraq Freedom to strip Saddam Hussein of WMD he did not have and to convert Iraq into a democracy and Western bastion in the Arab and Islamic world.
Fifteen years later, Iraqis are debating our expulsion.
Muqtada al-Sadr, the cleric with American blood on his hands from the fighting of a decade ago, is leading the charge to have us booted out. He heads the party with the largest number of members in the parliament.
Consider Yemen. For three years, the U.S. has supported with planes, precision-guided munitions, air-to-air refueling and targeting information, a Saudi war on Houthi rebels that degenerated into one of the worst humanitarian disasters of the 21st century.
Belatedly, Congress is moving to cut off U.S. support for this war. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, its architect, has been condemned by Congress for complicity in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the consulate in Istanbul. And the U.S. is seeking a truce in the fighting.
Who got us into this war? And what have years of killing Yemenis, in which we have been collaborators, done to make Americans safer?
Consider Libya. In 2011, the U.S. attacked the forces of dictator Moammar Gadhafi and helped to effect his ouster, which led to his murder.
Told of news reports of Gadhafi’s death, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joked, “We came, we saw, he died.”
The Libyan conflict has since produced tens of thousands of dead. The output of Libya’s crucial oil industry has collapsed to a fraction of what it was. In 2016, Obama said that not preparing for a post-Gadhafi Libya was probably the “worst mistake” of his presidency.
The price of all these interventions for the United States?
Some 7,000 dead, 40,000 wounded and trillions of dollars.
For the Arab and Muslim world, the cost has been far greater. Hundreds of thousands of dead in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, civilian and soldier alike, pogroms against Christians, massacres, and millions uprooted and driven from their homes.
How has all this invading, bombing and killing made the Middle East a better place or Americans more secure? One May 2018 poll of young people in the Middle East and North Africa found that more of them felt that Russia was a closer partner than was the United States of America.
The fruits of American intervention?
We are told ISIS is not dead but alive in the hearts of tens of thousands of Muslims, that if we leave Syria and Afghanistan, our enemies will take over and our friends will be massacred, and that if we stop helping Saudis and Emiratis kill Houthis in Yemen, Iran will notch a victory.
In his decision to leave Syria and withdraw half of the 14,000 troops in Afghanistan, Trump enraged our foreign policy elites, though millions of Americans cannot get out of there soon enough.
In Monday’s editorial celebrating major figures of foreign policy in the past half-century, The New York Times wrote, “As these leaders pass from the scene, it will be left to a new generation to find a way forward from the wreckage Mr. Trump has already created.”
Correction: Make that “the wreckage Mr. Trump inherited.”
Indian medical student kicked out of college by racist white professors for questioning their SJW beliefs
Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya was a medical student at the University of Virginia and he has been kicked out after having questioned his white college professor’s SJW beliefs.
Here is the audio of the lecture where he questioned his professor’s SJW beliefs:
He speaks from 28:45 to 34:00
Here is the audio of the suspension hearing:
Here is a picture of the people who were at the suspension hearing:
Notice how 14 out of the 16 people at that suspension hearing are white people. If this is not an act of racism against a sincere indian medical student, then I don’t know what is. Look at their smug arrogant faces as they kick him out for DARING to question their SJW beliefs.
His twitter is
if you want to ask him questions or set up an interview with him
Already the media is beginning to cover it: https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/opinion-conservative/2018/3421928.html
https://cloverchronicle.com/2018/12/29/university-of-virginia-med-student-receives-1-year-suspension-after-microaggressions-lecture/
It has been discussed endlessly on Reddit, 4chan, and various message boards. This is THE next big story. So if you run this story on your blog, it will serve to draw a lot of traffic to your blog as well. The story will expose the truth about how our univerisites are SJW and communist indoctrination centers.
He is dealing with closed minds that have already judged him. Notice in a round about way he was asked if he understands the charge against him. And notice how he evades the trap. Another trap he avoided was the psychological evaluation.
This was clearly a kangaroo court.
This hearing clearly shows how people with clear thinking minds are put down by ignorant closed minded people.
This is why the administrative courts have become so corrupt. If I was in an administrative court defending a charge against me I would not want these people sitting in a jury judging me. And yet many jurists are just like them. I would have to plead no contest and let the judge decide.
It just goes to show that values are becoming more and more distorted in our society. I’m sure all those jurists sitting in that room are educated… educated in facts but not values. This a big problem in our society. Without values a democratic society becomes a tyranny of ignorant minds forcing those with a critical mind and vision to be shut down by the ignorant majority.
This is what is going on in the public schools & universities and in the administrative courtrooms around the country. It is going on in city councils and legislative bodies across the political landscape.
Critical minds are shut down leading to the ruin of civilized society. Western civilization is breaking down because of this.
Are we headed toward another dark age?
If there is an appeals process it would have to be done through an administrative court outside the jurisdiction of the school. Since the courts deal with facts this body of ignorant tyrants would have to prove by solid facts the charge has merit. And since the charge stems from opinion rather than evidence the facts are not established and the argument has no merit in facts to support it.
Pat is quite right. Both political parties (two wings of the same bird, eh Mr Buchanan?) are responsible for the destruction of entire nations and the piles of dead bodies throughout. Indeed, as is detailed in the reportage, don’t forget about the American blood and treasure wasted in futile attempt to police the Muslim world. The Bushes and W.J. Clinton never had to answer for their arrogance in these useless, criminal endeavours, neither did the British, French or other allies. And to think that Barry Soetoro received a Nobel Prize for his efforts in regards to these interventionist disasters.
Blaming DJT for this is clearly scapegoating the wrong guy. But he sure is an easy-to-strike and very convenient target.
It is rather that same cabal of Evil Fuckers who like the particular “business model” and its proceeds: arms, war, money, power, control over life and death; and employ the U.S.A. as its tool.
Hubris is going to prove to be a bitch.
I’ll bet if we started drafting our combat troops from the Ivy League, we could find a way to withdraw from all these wars.
There probably is a genuine belief among elites and most of the NPC public. That if you change the system you can change the people .
Much like busing blacks into white schools.
How much longer as disatents can we remain silent?
How do we get through to the NPCs that you can never put all the marbles in any one jar?
disatents….what? is that where the illegal aliens in tiajuana sleep?
The Americans created, trained and funded ISIS. Syria, Iran and Russia are the ones killing ISIS. They’ll succeed even faster once the U.S. leaves. Leaving Afghanistan is long overdue.