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2015-12-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Former CIA Chief of Station Haviland Smith - We Can't Govern Syria

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-12-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

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(a) Stop thinking that you can fix the problems with Muslims in Western countries by "fixing" ME.
(b) Realize that you don't need ME for energy any longer---fracking is way cheaper than constant intervention.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-12-16 01:52|| 2015-12-16 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Exactly correct g(r)om. Both history and current events clearly illustrate they will go 'Donner Pass' if left unmolested. A classic Darwinian self-correcting problem.

Now if you permit a mass migration into Europe, all bets are off.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-12-16 05:50|| 2015-12-16 05:50|| Front Page Top

#3 'We Can't Govern' would have sufficed.

Posted by Airandee 2015-12-16 06:00|| 2015-12-16 06:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Migration to Europe won't change the equation. The indigenous eurines who work and generate all the welfare benefits were already extincting themselves before the migration began, and when it's over, there will be a continent sized Gaza minus the cash infusions. It will surely be ugly, but it won't be much of a threat, except to its residents.

Posted by M. Murcek 2015-12-16 08:39|| 2015-12-16 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 have no experience with democracy

Their culture and philosophy (aka Islam) are antithetical to the whole notion of democracy and/or individualism.

It is the arrogance, narcissism and blindness of the western elites that prevents them from listening to the ME as they continually explain that.

Posted by AlanC 2015-12-16 08:51|| 2015-12-16 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 One problem is all that Soddy and Iranian money that our elites still crave.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-12-16 12:27|| 2015-12-16 12:27|| Front Page Top

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