Tag Archives: Free Syrian Army

kickin’ up a ruckus

The Arab Spring began as a revolutionary movement with a open, and sometimes radical program for renewal, as last compared to the existing order. And it turning out to be something failrly similar to what it replaced. In Syria, the … Continue reading

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the resisters

To some, Sheikh Scapa is another terrorist, to others he is a martyr engaged in a holy act, pleasurable to Allah in taking out the enemy. Resistance, violent and deadly resistance being morally acceptable given the nature of Israel’s occupation … Continue reading

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Business is business: a nation of traders?

1-800-kidnap. Its a new app. The kidnap app: does all the calculations, delivery charges, storage charges, maintenance charges. Any depreciation and product damage, insurance for product liability and any additional warranties on future performance that may fall short of expectations. … Continue reading

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fill the void: the voidoid zone

Just another week in the Middle East. The U.S. is now hedging its bets on the Syrian Free Army, simply a little too wily and wooly and seem to be looking for strategic alternatives by splitting hairs between classifying moderate … Continue reading

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charlie wilson’s war redux

Charlie Wilson’s War Redux. Why fix it if its not broken? The old habit of engaging with the nuttiest and most fanatic opposition elements to do the heavy lifting and then being stuck with them later as the dynamic of … Continue reading

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barrels full of killer monkeys

Shades of Oliver North. Now its “legal” to raise funds for the Free Syrian Army in the United States. How that supposedly non-military support aid gets translated into arms is a question that goes to the profound root of financial … Continue reading

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too many people

Yet their brows touched heaven. Islam brought them to their feet in this first of the Arab awakenings. Islam created Arabism, and from the start, the power of one was the power of the other. The strength of islam is … Continue reading

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mao: “revolution is not a dinner party”

Ignore von Clausewitz at your peril.He died in 1831, but his book, On War, is unfortunately something ignored more often than not stacking the odds in favor not winning a war…. If Clausewitz’s influence has been so often catastrophic, there … Continue reading

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domino effect: men in long black coats

An aesthetic of violence. An aesthetic of racism. An aesthetic of the excessive. Who knows how this horsetrading is going to work out in the end. Pawns in their game, from Syrian “freedom” fighters and any other form of demented, … Continue reading

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a plateful it is

The level of profoundness and incisiveness, let alone plain vanilla veracity is about at the same level as elementary school Scholastic Book Services paperbacks. Banal, slightly generic, and with lots of pablum serving drivel and spittle. Its the New York … Continue reading

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