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2022-06-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Member Of Opposition Faction Wounded In Infighting In Afrin, North Aleppo

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Posted by badanov 2022-06-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 Dem Presidential candidate, 2016 - 'What is Aleppo?'

Dem media, trying to bail him out - 'It's a brand of dog food!'

Posted by Raj 2022-06-07 00:13|| 2022-06-07 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 I think it was the libertarian candidate that year who couldn't place Aleppo, then the media smugly but incorrectly tried to set him straight. Failing grades all around for ME geography.

Posted by Gilet Jaune Gigum 2022-06-07 00:35|| 2022-06-07 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 It was indeed the Libertarian. Gary Johnson — see here. A bit of a tempest in a teapot — he understood the issues Aleppo represented, he just didn’t have it mentally tagged with the name of the city.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-07 00:40|| 2022-06-07 00:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks for the 2016 'What is Aleppo' piece TW. Johnson obviously wasn't coached on the questions beforehand. What his geopolitical background lacked, his common sense more than made up for:

“Aleppo is in Syria – it’s the epicenter of the refugee crisis,” Barnicle said.

[Johnson] “OK. Got it. With regard to Syria, I do think it is a mess,” the Libertarian nominee said. Johnson pivoted to arguing against military interventions in foreign countries, and said that the refugee crisis “is the result of regime change that we end up supporting, and, inevitably, these regimes have led to a less safe world.”

Excellent gaffe recovery by Johnson. Unfortunately the 'gaffe' was remembered, his entirely accurate comment on "regime change" politics appears to have been lost forever.

Paradoxically, we now must endure the daily gaffes of a president, who attempts to recovery with an endless stream of untruths.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-07 02:43|| 2022-06-07 02:43|| Front Page Top

#5 There was a time when every educated man who knew his Shakespeare could recall Othello's last words:

"Set you down this
And say besides that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turbanned Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by th' throat the circumcised dog
And smote him—thus!"

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-07 06:22|| 2022-06-07 06:22|| Front Page Top

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