Game-Changer: Signs of the al-Qaeda-Assad AllianceLong story short: These guys all love each other (and jihad), and are only play-fighting (albeit realistically) to deceive us and protect Iran.
...The Iranians aren’t taking countermeasures against al-Qaeda forces supposedly threatening their brother Assad, yet continue to offer haven to the terror group’s leaders. But then again, Assad isn’t taking countermeasures against the al-Qaeda strongholds, either.
It’s just one omen that has alarmed Syrians about an unholy alliance being overlooked by the West.
It's brilliant -- whatever Obama does, as long as he doesn't nuke Syria and/or Iran he's still wrong!
At this point the impeachment proceedings are going to look like a scene from The Crucible.
UPDATE. Mark_Bzzz, in comments: "I think they're overusing the 'game changer' meme. The game has been changed so many times in their minds they don't know if they're playing tiddlywinks or Go Fish." I think it's Calvinball.
Ah yes, we all know how much Wahhabis and Iranian Shi'a just love each other. Muslims! They're just all the same!
ReplyDelete"At this point the impeachment proceedings are going to look like a scene from The Crucible."
ReplyDeleteAs performed by Monty Python.
Hey, you say Sufi, I say Salafi, you say Wahabi, I say wasabi. All them furriners sound suspicious to me.
ReplyDeleteIt's like a bad Star Trek episode, where a robot is being confused by a Republican:
ReplyDelete"I love the Iraqis and want to free them, and I want to kill the Iraqis"
"That makes no sense-- they are the same people"
"I want to bomb the rebels and bomb the government in the Syrian civil war."
"That makes no sense-- they hate each other."
"I want to close the Mexican border to keep out the Islamic terrorists."
"That makes no sense-- why would they even bother coming in that way?"
"Only Putin is showing leadership. If only we could have a President as tough on Russia as he is."
"That makes--- ah, fuck it. (pulls out its own motherboard and dies)"
If Syria weighs more than a duck, it's a witch!
ReplyDeleteRemember, these are people who thought the Thirty Years' War was too ecumenical.
ReplyDeleteWell, lessee, I guess "protection" of al-Qaeda now includes jailing them....
ReplyDeleteThis is just one more long, extended whine among many, along with being some good, ol' fashioned, American-as-apple-pie commie-mongering--when they're not praising Putin as a tough guy in order to create contrast with Wimpy-O.
But, yeah, you can get a serious case of whiplash just trying to keep up with these putzes as they do rhetorical doughnuts on the information superhighway. And, in the end, all we get is smoke and skidmarks.
What a hilariously perfect title for this post. It's all so confusing. According to Assad and our own right-wingers, al-Qaeda is like a bachelorette swamped with celebrity suitors:
ReplyDeleteRand Paul: Twelve years after we were attacked by Al Qaeda, 12 years after 3,000 Americans were killed by Al Qaeda, President Obama now asks us to be allies with Al Qaeda.
Bashar al-Assad: If the U.S. strikes Syria then this is the war that is going to support Al Qaeda and the same people that kill Americans in the 11 of September.
Bridget Johnson, PJM: ...signs continue to mount that show al-Qaeda is working not against Bashar al-Assad but in concert with the dictator.
Any day now, Breitbart will report that Vladimir Putin has asked Al-Qaeda to marry him.
Looney times we live in.
I saw Goody Obama with the Devil!
ReplyDelete(Oh, who am I kidding. They'd never say "good" in connection with Michelle or Barack Obama.)
All that's left for that Republican is to fake a PhD, and hello, cushy conservative think tank gig!
ReplyDeleteI am reminded of a brilliant Harvard Lampoon of USA Today from the 80s. One of the Top 10 singles from the late 1700s was "(Gimme That) Congress With The Devil" by the Salem Women's Chorus. Pure genius, right down to the 80s gratuitously parenthetical song titles.
ReplyDeleteOne need not even mention "Stairway to Heaven" by Dr. Franklin's Wondrous But Heavy Hot Air Balloon. Also in the Top 10.
Topical:
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Parts of it are in the URL. Maybe Roy doesn't handle compliments well.
ReplyDeleteThey were really hoping for another war they could sit on their ass and not serve in. It's pretty much the perfect situation for your average bloviating right-winger: they can sit back and criticize everything the president does strategy-wise, claim a fake moral high ground, not offer any solutions of their own, and not be held accountable for any of it. Those who can, do. Those who can't, warblog.
ReplyDeleteI think they got ahead of themselves, as usual. About 70% of the public opposes the war, so they thought they could trick the public into thinking that they were suddenly isolationist peaceniks (and boy was that an ill-fitting costume), assumed that Obama would be forced into doing something, blame him for everything that went wrong, and eventually get rich off of it Halliburton-style when the MIC money found its way back home. What a gig? Not to mention 50 years worth of political hay to be made about How Obama Lost Syria and how the Republicans tried to stop him. It didn't seem to occur to them that Obama would (at this writing, anyway) find a way to cool things down without launching an aggressive, dick-swinging, bomb-everything-to-glass campaign. That seems to be the only way they know how to do foreign policy, so I guess they didn't think that someone else could find a different option.
Silly! Everyone knows that everybody who [Newt Gingrich, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Rush Limbaugh] doesn't like is in cahoots!
ReplyDeleteWould it be irresponsible to achieve a neocon wet dream and bomb Iran because of conflict in Syria? It would be irresponsible not to!
(And seriously, the blithe conflation of conflicting groups in the Middle East by McCain and Lieberman back in 2007–8 was really stunning. I hear even Dick "[Iraq is the] geographic base of the terrorists" Cheney was impressed.)
As performed by Monty Python the inmates of Charenton Asylum under the direction of the Marquis de Sade.
ReplyDelete"...they can sit back and criticize everything the president does strategy-wise, claim a fake moral high ground, not offer any solutions of their own, and not be held accountable for any of it."
ReplyDeleteThat sort of asininity is , sadly, not restricted to the right wing.
The right wing is forever an emotional and mental mess. Two year olds having a meltdown make more sense than they do.
ReplyDeleteThis stuff makes no sense to us, but it makes perfect sense in their world. Remember that all the things we take for granted in our world--physics, logic, law, reasoning--operate under completely different rules in their world.
ReplyDeleteThus, when we look at a series of statements that amount to "Obama is horrible because he's not rushing into war with Syria by rushing us into war with Syria and not Iran not war now but war with Iran but Syria but Russia!", we say "That makes no sense at all." In rightwing world, however, that single sentence is the acme of impeccable logic and the utmost of rigorous reasoning.
Well, it's pretty evident that modern (I'm being generous) republicans/baggers/misc.wackos really DO use opposition to anything liebruhls seem to want as a major deciding factor in everything they do, and being a bit, well, stoopid/insular/ignorant, they assume that everyone else operates on the same primitive level.
ReplyDeleteSo, my guess is that they thought they could pull some reverse psychology persuasion on the Prez--and, because they are stoopid/insular/ignorant, the wiley plan backfired on 'em.
(Remember, folks at a higher level of emotional development can understand the world perspective of less developed ones, but those of low-level development cannot comprehend that higher levels even exist, much less grok 'em.)
Perhaps, but it has been a salient feature of the modern Republican Party since the dawn of Gingrichism. Reflexive opposition and sniping from the sidelines is standard Republican operating procedure. It's what they do.
ReplyDeleteI think they're overusing the 'game changer' meme. The game has been changed so many times in their minds they don't know if they're playing tiddlywinks or Go Fish. Or maybe horseshoes.
ReplyDeleteThey tried to stampede the President into bombing some people they don't like, and he ignored them.
ReplyDeleteBecause they're the people who came up with "one-term President" and "terrorist fist-bump" and "where's the birth certificate" and suchlike. He's never going to be Honorary White Man just because he's the President.
They hate him, and he knows it, and they know he knows it. Why should he listen to them?
I'm always fussing with my work. Also I wanted to save it for something else.
ReplyDeleteThey were in the closet making babies and I saw the baby and it winked at me!
ReplyDeleteWhy a duck?
ReplyDelete... When it reality, it was extremely expensive.
ReplyDeleteAny day now, Breitbart will report that Vladimir Putin has asked Al-Qaeda to marry him.
ReplyDeleteWhich, since Putin is now the manly man that American conservatives swoon for, will make al Qaeda okey-dokey as far as they're concerned. Whereupon GOP members of Congress will begin calling for Obama's impeachment over his callous murder of that sweet old bin Laden guy. Or has this already happened?
In case you missed it on the Daily Show, this clip is a perfect illustration of the cognitive dissonance the whole Syrian situation is sowing in the ranks. Check out the expressions on Douchey & Kilmeade's faces at the end, after someone who should be an ally (because he has an "R" after his name) makes them look foolish even to the fools who make up their audience.
ReplyDeleteHey JOHN MCCAIN, here's a video of an airplane being shot down. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT?
ReplyDelete#tactfulness
I'm a little rusty on my Morse Code, but I'm interpreting McCain's blinking as a secret message saying, "Everyone, I am so damn sorry that I tried to get elected with the help of these fuckwits. I mean, for shit's sake."
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ReplyDeleteAnd if you've got a horse why do you need a Ford?
ReplyDeleteThat is the entire political philosophy of right wingers. If a liberal's for it, they're against it. Even the things that benefit them.
ReplyDeleteEven if they were for it before a liberal was also for it. That just ruins it.
I sometimes think that wingers make love to craziness because deep down inside they don't want to convince anyone to understand, or worse agree with them--then there would be no Other to hate on, and that's their only motivation to live.
ReplyDeleteI once shot a cheesmaker in my pajamas...how he got in my pajamas, I'll never know, (but bless him).
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And they do it without Groucho's style:
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Yes, I'd go as far as to say it's the definitive feature of the Gingrich-and-later GOP.
ReplyDelete"The Crucible" as performed by the Three Stooges.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I take back everything I ever said about Obama being a chump, a fall guy, and scapegoat for Bush and the military. I should have known he was too many for me. The man is playing n-dimensional chess!
ReplyDeleteThe thought that for the first time, in my freakin life the US may not intervene makes me very happy.
both ends.. sounds great.
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