Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/24/2012 02:59 AM Report

The predicted end is November.

The sooner the better.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/24/2012 02:50 AM Report

Charlie, you ask if there should be some guilt on countries outside of Syria?

She says, Oh absolutely. The international community had a moral responsibility to prevent these types of massacres we are seeing. They had a moral responsibility to prevent what is now really genocidal proportions of killing. The international community failed to act. The United Nations has been paralyzed through Russian and Chinese vetoes. But I think nations could have done far more.

She adds later, what we are seeing now is a homicidal maniac.

Charlie, time to make a call to Seal Team Six and also to someone who can cleanse our souls of inaction towards "genocidal proportions of killing".

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/24/2012 02:33 AM Report

We hear that Assad is a dead-man-walking and that if he lives he will always be on the run.

This sounds portentous to everyone.

Of course, backed into this death corner there is only the fight response and flight is no longer an option.

The blood of hundreds more lies in the balance.

tabs  08/09/2012 07:49 PM Report

One has long thought that Baby Assad never has had complete control of Syria. That there are many in the ruling elite that operate as independent contractors with Assad serving as the titular head of state.

REMant  08/09/2012 01:51 PM Report

The prime minister was sacked more likely, since he was appointed only recently in an attempt at appeasement. Either way it somewhat detracts from the propaganda value.

Ms Jouejati's father was a member of the regime, and it is her apparent view that it has become increasingly dictatorial. She represents the fanciful in this farce for she believes the movement was peaceful and would have remained so had not the regime moved against them; that their army consists solely of defectors fighting for freedom who abhor violence. This is the story that has been sold in all the rest of the affected nations, because they know it accords well with Western philanthropic sentiment, from which they may derive necessary support.

But it seems they have helped it along by demonstrations of their oppression, whether entirely true or not, and been responsible for their own share, while their cadre consists of a large number of foreigners and disparate elements with varying agendas.

Syria appears to have become a political football in the contest not only between Iran and Israel, but also Iran and the various Sunni autocracies, with the potential to spill over into the American presidential election as the Right takes up the cause, deciding, I guess, that this Soviet stand-in provides a greater threat to oil, religion and American exceptionalism than the Jihadists.

An example of the propaganda effort can be found in this statement from State Dept spokeswoman Victoria Nuland after the Houla massacre hoax: "This morning, we called in Syrian charge d'affaires Zuheir Jabbour and informed him that he is no longer welcome in the United States and gave him 72 hours to depart. We took this action in response to the massacre in the village of Houla - absolutely indefensible, vile, despicable massacre against innocent children, women shot at point-blank range by regime thugs, the Shabiha, aided and abetted by the Iranians, who were actually bragging about it over the weekend."

It is apparent, as well, in Ms Jouejati's Utopian zeal. I didn't think she needed to be coached by the prosecution.