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| Iraq |
| 'When ISIS takes Baghdad...' |
| 2014-08-06 |
| The will in the West to address the crisis in the Middle East simply does not exist, and the press has moved on from covering the ISIS threat. Only a massive oil shock -- or worse -- would refocus the West's attention, and by then it would be far too late to do much of anything about it. It'll become interesting when the press can deflect blame from Obama Co. |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #4 ISIL action to the south of Baghdad intended to close off the escape routes and bottle up Americans in Baghdad? |
| Posted by: KBK 2014-08-06 22:21 |
| #3 We're not the worlds largest exporter of oil. We are producing a lot, and can produce a lot more, and not using what natural gas we have to replace domestic coal would help even more. But we're not in as good a situation as I keep seeing us described as having. I wonder if BHO's gang-that-can't-shoot-straight is pushing the meme to keep from having to restore drilling licenses to all the places they've blocked, on federal lands and offshore. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-08-06 16:41 |
| #2 One additional comment: Oil shock? with the United States as the worlds leader PRODUCER and EXPORTER of oil? The fact the US exports more oil than KSA while remaining energy dependent is a bit of news that the mass media has buried. If the EPA would quit writing regulations for ten minutes, we could build refineries, pipelines, and infrastructure to make use of the vast glut of oil we are now producing. Of course, that does not mention natural gas, which major US oil companies are now flaring billions of cubic feet of natural gas because we don't have pipelines or refining facilities to utilize a "clean" fossil fuel AND natural gas prices in the NE and West are spiking because of supply problems. Oil shock? Probably a bigger scandal for the empty suit administration than the coming ISIL terrorist attack coming to a major city near you. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-08-06 10:57 |
| #1 I predict ISIL will attempt a major terror attack on a US city in the next 12 months to offer legitimacy to their "caliphate." ISIL will tell us what they are going to do, do it, and then tell us they did it. ISIL is an extremely arrogant and self assured bunch, much more public and less stealthy than AQ. When the attack occurs, and it will make 9/11 look like a warm up act to the Rolling Stones, the media will have to do mental gymnastics worthy of Zardari and Imran Khan to transfer the blame away from Obumble. Of course, I have said from the beginning, the handlers of the empty suit WANT a major catastrophe, either economic, civil strife, or terrorist related to declare martial law, suspend the rule of law and institute a coup placing the empty suit at the top as a figure head for the real string pullers on the left. Pelosi, Reid, the mass media, and Hollywood will find out what happens to useful idiots when the totalitarians take over. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-08-06 10:51 |