1
fuck 'em all

2
I have two three words.

We should Bug the Fuck Out of the Middle East right now.

3 Overturning Syria would actually be in US interest, so don't expect help from our bonehead president.

4 Release the Honey Badger!

Oops. Wrong movie.

5
There will be a mushroom cloud in that part of the globe very soon.

6 Huh.

If things pick up in Syria and they fall, then Lebanon could end up having another revolution.  Hezbollah's being supported by Iran from far but Syria from much closer to home. 

Losing Assad's support from the eastern boarder would make it harder to suppress the non-Muslims or effectively fight Israel.

7 Operation Odyssey Dusk?

8 YOU FORGOT YEMEN!

9 Well, lets get it over with already.  Oh wait, we have Obama--maybe not...

10 ...and we have no idea who the players are.

11 I know some less than scrupulous people may behind some of these protests, but you have to wonder if Bush is smiling a little.  After all the attacks launched at him, Iraq was a success, and they seem to be going forward with a democracy.  That may have been contagious, and may have sparked freedom marches throughout the Mideast.

If some of these regimes are overthrown in favor of democracy, I think Bush can take a lot of credit.

12 Who is this \Rebecca Black everyone is talking about?

She's hot.

13 It's amazing how these dictators are all for stirring the pot, as long as it is not their own pot.

14 That Ob+amao! Is there anything that he can do?

15 Old and busted; Kinetic Warfare

New and shiny; Potential Warfare.

16

Fall on the Balance Beam? Lose your Virginity to Your Uncle?  Tryst with the Infidel Neighbor Boy?

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17 I have the solution.  It will also help with needed items here in America.  Turn the entire Middle East into a glass factory.

18 and for all this to go down w/ Obama in office, a member of the party that finds foreign policy an annoyance in their plans for social change at home

19 17 I have the solution.  It will also help with needed items here in America.  Turn the entire Middle East into a glass factory.

We can burn ants with it!

20

Take one part August 1914, one part 1848, one part 1979, add a dash of general incoherence and what do you get?

The Mayans were on to something.

21 The real question is, how does the Andrea Mitchell Doctrine apply?

22 If things pick up in Syria and they fall, then Lebanon could end up having another revolution.  Hezbollah's being supported by Iran from far but Syria from much closer to home.

As with everything in the ME, that depends on who is orchestrating the protests.  A Syrian revolution would depose Assad, but then Syria might become another Islamist state, certainly a Sunni one. 

Doubtful Syria will fall though, at least for the moment.  Baby Assad's father was more than willing to lay siege to Hama and kill about 20 - 40k people, and Baby Assad may have that same political preservation instinct that his father possessed. 

23 We can burn ants with it!

See?  A vital industry is born.  NOW you can finally get rid of all those annoying fire ants.

24 Would love to see that weak-jawed Assad dangling head down from a lamp post by his ankles realsoonnow. Couldn't happen to a sleazier SOB...

25 There's a revolt in my underpants!

26

Old and busted; Kinetic Warfare

New and shiny; Potential Warfare.

AOSHQ:  Come for the smart military blog, stay for the physics nerd jokes.

27

I still don't understand if all of this is a Black Swan or something more coordinated.

I mean I guess it could be that the protesters saw it work in Tunisia and Egypt and thought "hey we could do that here too" but enough time has passed to see that neither Tunisia nor Egypt are quite working out as awesome as planned. Really neither is Libya.

So, is there really just this amazing groundswell of desire in the ME to overthrow their governments, or is this all part of a larger plan?

28 said Abdullah, who asked that his full name not be reported due to security concerns.

I'm sorry to be making jokes in this seriousness, but that cracked me up.  How many Abdullah's do you think there are there?  I'd go with "all of them".

29 YOU FORGOT TRASHCANISTAN!

30
in case others haven't heard, this is his direct quote
Frank Lautenberg: “These people don’t deserve the freedoms in the Constitution...but we’ll give it to them anyway.”

These people = you and me.

31
fuckit

we'll do it live

32

So, is there really just this amazing groundswell of desire in the ME to overthrow their governments, or is this all part of a larger plan?

Yes.  Yes.  AND the Mayans were on to something.

33 Get ready for lining up at the gas station.

34 The Mayans were on to something.

FTFY.

35 Posted by: Michael Jordan at March 25, 2011 12:36 PM (rbIX/)

No, that's just the ants, trying to get away from my mighty, new Middle Eastern Glass Company super-sized magnifying glass.

36 Liking the unrest in Syria, since Syria's First Lady gives me unrest in my pants.  Just sayin'.

37 If Israel vaporizes the Ayrabs, can they also melt Dearborn as well?

38

Is Syria still run by Urban Meyer Bashir Al-Assad?

39 “These people don’t deserve the freedoms in the Constitution...but we’ll give it to them anyway.”


that qualifies for a national "piss on lautenbergs grave" day

40 @36

Really? To me she looks like a younger, less botox-addicted version of Nancy Pelosi.

41 There was a young girl from Yeman
arrested and checked for a hymen.....

42 It's already out of control. The long standing Cold War between Shia and Sunni is about to get hot. If the Shia get control of Mecca there will be a global Muslim war.

43 Oh, look.  A continuation of the "DOOM" thread.

44 Operation Summer's Eve.

45 Fuck all these camel-blowing sand wops. It costs us nothing to let them cull their own herd. Let 'em.

46 32

So, is there really just this amazing groundswell of desire in the ME to overthrow their governments, or is this all part of a larger plan?

Yes.  Yes.  AND the Mayans were on to something.

Read Revelations and Ezekiel as a primer as to what will happen next, .

In all seriousness, Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood have long-term goals to remake the Islamic Caliphate.  They are shockingly detailed and involve undermining countries culturally, along with more overt terrorist actions.  This stealth jihad is even affecting us here in America, with groups like CAIR taking advantage of our liberties to perpetuate their stealth jihad.

 It could be all this unrest in the sand box is in part due to such groups taking advantage of general civil unrest due to political repression/economic turmoil and American weakness.  And the leadership of Iran in particular sees fomenting chaos as a way to bring back the 12th Imam, which is why they cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

Or in the end, there will be only chaos.

47 If I were Israel , I would be polishing up the nukes about now. Its gonna come down to them or the arabs. Actually, if I were Israel, I would be sending agents around the world to send certain players to hell in a flaming basket.

48 Really? To me she looks like a younger, less botox-addicted version of Nancy Pelosi.

Eh, maybe it's just me.

49 ""Fuck all these camel-blowing sand wops. It costs us nothing to let them cull their own herd. Let 'em.

sand wops? Thats a new one. Does that mean "without peckers"? lol

50
That's another thing. Giffords is back in the news serving as a) a nice distraction from Obama's attack on Libya, and b) as a reminder of right wing hate.

In a couple of weeks, her asshole husband is gonna be launched into orbit to waste millions of our dollars to float around with his thumb in his ass and she might attend the liftoff.

I'll bet my leftnut the media tries to get some more mileage out of their right-wing-violent-rhetoric smear. Meanwhile...Democrats such as Barney the Cocksucker is calling us bigots and Lautenberg is saying we don't deserve rights.

51 There will be a mushroom cloud in that part of the globe very soon. And I will be handing out sweets and dancing outside to "Rock You Like a Hurricane." Might as well do something culturally appropriate.

52 Wow, this exactly what Osama wanted.

Coinkydink- ?

53

Actually, if I were Israel, I would be sending agents around the world to send certain players to hell in a flaming basket.

Oh no you don't.

54 Ezekiel 38
Hey isn't Iran and Libya mentioned in there? strange.

55 ""And I will be handing out sweets and dancing outside to "Rock You Like a Hurricane.""


I'll be cranking Manowar's  "Battle Hymns", followed up by Black wind, fire, and steel.

56 In a couple of weeks, her asshole husband is gonna be launched into orbit to waste millions of our dollars to float around with his thumb in his ass and she might attend the liftoff.

It's important we study the effects of weightlessness on fingers in asses, you anti-science wingnut!

57 Rock the Casbah by The Clash for me.

58

Canadian General to command NATO mission in Libya.

Won't the combat experience hurt his career? 

 

 

59

So, is there really just this amazing groundswell of desire in the ME to overthrow their governments, or is this all part of a larger plan?

I've had my suspicions ever since I saw those glossy pictures of "What to wear to a riot" in the Egyptian uprising.

I don't think "they" expected things to get so out of control, though.

It always comes down to those pesky Unintended Consequences, doesn't it?  The only benefit is that "Brackets" comes across looking VERY bad on both sides of the aisle.....

60 Take the reports from Amman with a grain of salt.  The "pro-reform" demonstrators are almost all Palestinians who want the King to hate Israel and cut off ties.  That's their only idea of "reform."  The "pro-government" demonstrators are Jordanians who hate Palestinians as much as we do, if such a thing is possible, and want them the hell out of their country.  That's really what's going on here--it's not a larger part of some region-wide quest for freedom.  It's just Palis trying to take advantage of the situation.  And as I've said before, we should support the Jordanians.  They're not Western, but they're as close as it gets in this shithole region of the world.  There are a host of Christian churches, and Easter Sunday is a day off for Christians--Sunday is a workday here--and not for Moslems.  And let's be honest--how many of us would go apeshit if the U.S. government gave Moslems a holiday not available to Christians.  I can buy pork with no problem at any number of markets, including the pork butcher who sells nothing but.  People own dogs, and it's the only Arab country with an Israeli embassy. 

61 On the subject of Libya, Rich Lowry at The Corner on National Review found a nugget in a NYT article this morning that's making my blood boil.

From the start, the administration insisted that it was acting to avert the imminent slaughter of civilians in Benghazi and other rebel-held cities, and that the goal of the military operations was clearly spelled out in the United Nations Security Council resolution.

Mr. ObamaÂ’s administration, however, has clearly tried to avoid the debate over a strategy beyond that by shifting the burden of enforcing the United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing force on to France, Britain and other allies, including Arab nations like Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, which on Thursday said that it would contribute warplanes to the effort. In other words, the American exit strategy is not necessarily the coalitionÂ’s exit strategy.

“We didn’t want to get sucked into an operation with uncertainty at the end,” the senior administration official said. “In some ways, how it turns out is not on our shoulders.”

62 No comment. Remember my rules, guys: dither for nine days, and then do the first thing that pops into my head after reading about France.

63

They have been killing themselves for a thousand years and will continue for another thousand. They hated us before and no matter what we do they will continue to hate us.

I say we let them have at it and get the hell out of their way. I, for one have learned the lessons taught from the past. Fuck 'em.

64 Watch Glenn Beck's March 24 show to see how it hangs together.

65

OT

Morons, take a moment  out from your crass to slather a little culture on yer ass. Poetry.

66

I'm all for people being free.

Hell, I own several myself.

67 I'll be cranking Manowar's  "Battle Hymns", followed up by Black wind, fire, and steel.

Posted by: Berserker at March 25, 2011 12:53 PM (gWHrG)

A man after my own heart!  Personally I'll be enjoying "Holy War" and "Hail and Kill."

68

OT

Morons, take a moment  out from your crass to slather a little culture on yer ass.Poetry.

Posted by: maddogg at March 25, 2011 01:04 PM (OlN4e)

----------------------------------------------

Don't know what culture is but I can tell I'm going to like it!

69

So - is there an over-under pool set up for how long it will take for the US to get dragged into propping up protesters/rebels in Syria?  I'm guessing we'll have committed resources as of day 26.  Just enough time for Obama to dither and insure that no good will or lasting benefit of any kind can be salvaged in exchange for the price paid in resources.

70 The long standing Cold War between Shia and Sunni is about to get hot. If the Shia get control of Mecca there will be a global Muslim war.

After all the death that little fight (For which we have no iron in the fire over) has caused us, and the toll Islamic theocratic violence has weighed on us, I find myself remarkably apathetic to the idea of an internal Islamic Jihad of Sunni against Shia. Their marked intolerance of *each other* has almost convinced me of two things. That unless ME Islam grows philosophically in a big way that:

1. Long term peaceful coexistence of Christianity (And Judaism) with Islam is an impossibility.
2. Between the Shia and Sunni really, There  Can Be Only ONE.

Since the ME Islamic community staunchly refuses to adopt any portion of Western philosophy, grown from our own bouts of intolerance, hatred, and genocide, lessons we payed dearly to record to the history books of Western Civilization, then it becomes obvious they insist on doing it themselves in order to learn. And I look upon my role as a Westerner trying to prevent genocide within Islam not as a voice of reason attempting to preserve sacred life, but as an impediment to growth of a culture through necessary strife. 

I'm Catholic, means that at times I'm religiously at odds with other Christian faiths, in particular Evangelical Batists. But I don't worry about them banding together to seize the Vatican, and performing a purge of all Catholics. Because they know where that road leads, and whose errand they are running. So we all stick to peaceful proselytization, the way our savior taught us.

I guess that is a long complicated way of saying. ME Islam, you want to have your little internal hate war of faith? Fine we're tired of sacrificing the lives of our youth stopping you, maybe you'll learn something this time.

71

These are the items that stood out for me:

"uprising led by the Muslim Brotherhood in Hama"

 "including the powerful Islamist opposition"

 

Looks like "never let a good crisis go to waste" is an axiom for other power hungry regimes besides our current US adminisration. The unrest starts with sky-rocketing food prices, then seems to ends up in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood in a lot of the listed scenarios. Funny, that.

72 I'm sorry to be making jokes in this seriousness, but that cracked me up.  How many Abdullah's do you think there are there?  I'd go with "all of them".

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at March 25, 2011 12:37 PM (Z1jiu)

Abd: slave (or black person in Arabic)

d'ullah: of Allah

You can learn a lot about Arabs and Islam (Islam being the ultimate vehicle for Arab and Arabic supremacism) by learning what the various names mean.

There are only so many accepted Muslim names.  Osama is lion for example.  They don't consider themselves sheep, ever.    

73

"It's already out of control. The long standing Cold War between Shia and Sunni is about to get hot. If the Shia get control of Mecca there will be a global Muslim war."

See your doctor for an erection lasting more than 4 years.

74 The only good policy here is to stay out of it. Let them do each other in and you will come down to one of two results. Either the ones left will decide to live in peace with the rest of the world, or there will be fewer of them we need to kill.

75

The long standing Cold War between Shia and Sunni is about to get hot. If the Shia get control of Mecca there will be a global Muslim war.

What's happening now goes a bit beyond that, although that is contained in the larger picture.

Syria has been bubbling under the surface for a very long time -- the reign of the Assad's has been notably heavy handed towards the Syrian people (which is pretty typical for the region).  In that regard the protests are about getting a more democratic government, and wanting a better living standard.  However, you are dealing with people who wouldn't know what democracy, freedom, and a more open society was if it came up and smacked them in the face (they see, and want, things on tv or the internet, but they have little understanding of the society/culture behind the ohh shiny). Enter the Islamists with a really sweet deal...which they will jump on, because they believe that they will get harmony, peace...and lots of shiney and also some sort of belonging to a group, some Muslim pride if you will.  It's wishful thinking, of course, but lots of people have fallen victim to con jobs involving all their wildest dreams coming true.  It also involves scapegoating (whether Jews, Westerners, or other Islamic sects) -- because that too is part of the wish fulfillment fantasy...revenge and transferrence of responsibility is not germaine to the ME or Muslims either.

 

The Islamists will try to overthrow the dictators...and then the movement will try to consolidate the warring factions of Islam...and then the jihad begins in earnest for us.

 

 

76 You didn't think you were going to be funny forever, did you? Think about us.

77 Oops wrong thread. Talk about blowing it.

78 We need to genetically engineer a super STD transmitted from goats.

79

Marc C: Just read Ezekiahl (sp??) 38.

Wow. Yer right.

 

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