The most favorable assessment I can make on Jarrett is that she is a terrorist sympathizer. The worst, and probably correct, is that she is a terrorist operative who has infiltrated the highest levels of our government. There is no doubt that when consulting the president on ME policy her opinions trumps everyone else, and I mean everyone. Every General, everyone in the State Dept., everyone in Defense, everyone in the CIA. All are ignored by Obama when she has a different opinion. I would call her the #1 Jihadi simply because of her position. She calls all the ME tactics and is untouchable. Probably the most powerful and dangerous woman on the planet.
There seems to be little doubt that the Middle East has been inherently unstable since at least the close of World War II when the Western powers began more or less continuous intervention and tampering. Indigenous, sectarian conflicts lie at the heart of the instability. It is not rational to blame the U.S. for this. By the same token it not rational to blame ME Muslims for their hatred of Western military powers, of which the U.S. seems a primary focus. Although it is conjecture, and despite Iraq having been cobbled together out of disparate sectarian factions in the first place, it's reasonable to assume that had the U.S. not interfered in Iraq in 2003 the country might have held together. Hussein was one person, it seems, that could through draconian means, keep the country from disintegrating. And his forces, as inept as they were, seemed sufficient to maintain Iraqi sovereignty against pressures from neighboring States. A Pandora's box was opened in 1941 by the U.S. in Iran and another Pandora's box was opened in 2003 in Iraq. We can't seem to resist opening these boxes despite having not been able to close a single one of them. I wonder, are we about to open a third in Syria. And it isn't obvious to me that we haven't long ago opened one in Saudi Arabia, that, like a hornets nest, only needs to be poked to get things stirred up. It is extremely difficult to fight ideology using conventional weapons of war, especially from high altitude, other than by threat of or actual total annihilation. (The latter worked well for Columbus who succeeded in annihilating the Taino on Hispaniola.*) It is incredibly easy to make matters worse however. Eventually we may decide that the vast private profits to be made from war are just not worth all the public blood and treasure lost. I doubt it though. ______________________ *American and British history books euphemistically blame disease brought by Columbus' men, but Columbus' record in his own hand makes it clear that the Taino were slaughtered.
What picture? The parasite class votes for "more parasitism"... fuck whatever Odumbo or anything else the Federal government does... so long as "we the parasites get our monthly check", everything the government does is okey-dokey. (We don't really care about dismissal of the US Constitution.. or whomever the Administration sanctions or kills.. or any other evils they do... all we care about is our check.) The Libtard/Progressives have accomplished their 100-year goal. Their supporting parasite vote of 50+% assures the destruction of America as a free economic and political nation. The Libtards will be happy to rule over the ashes of the America which they have sown.
There are a lot of similarities with the crusaders and colonialists of previous centuries, with their "manifest destiny" and the like.
Just think, if the Spanish Empire hadn't been so weakened by Napoleon's army, the US would be a third of its present size and we'd all be Spanish bilingual.
I'd like to tie it all up with the defeat of the Armada in 1588 due to the Little Ice Age and bring in climate change (closure and all), but that was more than 200 yrs earlier, so I guess I can't manage it.
Yeah, i'm sure there are. That's why the left is constantly making excuses for the mooslimbs and the like. LOL