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With Syria a kind of geopolitical chessboard on which interests great and small play for their advantage, the prospect of Mideast instability is high. Men bow in prayer at a funeral for the victims of a Saturday suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria. (Muzaffar Salman, Associated Press / March 18, ...
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When Putin looks at Libya, he sees the graphic, regressive consequences of NATO's "liberation" through "humanitarian bombing"; a fragmented country controlled by al-Qaeda-linked militias; backward Cyrenaica splitting from more developed Tripolitania; and a relative of the last king brought in to rule the new "emirate" - to the delight of those model democrats of the House of Saud.
This raised a question for me.
What are you supposed to do when the purported enemy of your country has a far better grasp on reality then the citizenry of your country, due to the malfeasance of a corporately controlled media and the spin masters in your own psychological operations department?
Do you go with reality? (I happen to totally agree with the facts as detailed above, they match observations better than the story. Gotta love the scientific method.)
Or do you play it safe and not rock the boat? (As intellectually distasteful as that would be.)
This raised a question for me.
What are you supposed to do when the purported enemy of your country has a far better grasp on reality then the citizenry of your country, due to the malfeasance of a corporately controlled media and the spin masters in your own psychological operations department?
Do you go with reality? (I happen to totally agree with the facts as detailed above, they match observations better than the story. Gotta love the scientific method.)
Or do you play it safe and not rock the boat? (As intellectually distasteful as that would be.)
Asia Times Online :: Why #Putin is driving Washington nutshttp://goo.gl/AfMkR #usa #russia
"Before last Sunday's election, Putin even advertised his road map The essentials; no war on Syria; no war on Iran; no "humanitarian bombing" or fomenting "color revolutions" - all bundled into a new concept, "illegal instruments of soft power". For Putin, a Washington-engineered New World Order is a no-go. What rules is "the time-honored principle of state sovereignty"."
"Before last Sunday's election, Putin even advertised his road map The essentials; no war on Syria; no war on Iran; no "humanitarian bombing" or fomenting "color revolutions" - all bundled into a new concept, "illegal instruments of soft power". For Putin, a Washington-engineered New World Order is a no-go. What rules is "the time-honored principle of state sovereignty"."
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