America is a sick society

[Eric the Green]

(01-26-2017, 03:07 PM)Marypoza Wrote:

(01-26-2017, 02:15 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: She denies that Syrian civil war was an uprising of the people against Assad, their genocidal dictator. They demonstrated peacefully, and then Assad started shooting them. Then came the tanks, planes and chemical weapons. The USA was slow to provide help to the Syrians, and we should have done better. Not by sending troops, but aid. Tulsi thinks the Syrian Arab-Spring uprising is a war between Assad and terrorists fomented by the United States of America. That is just the lie that Assad tells in order to oppress and kill his people.

-- l'm not seeing that in the Time article l linked to, or any of the other links (google Tulsi Syria trip) the Guardian article does outline a brief history of the conflict, however. What Tulsi does correctly point out is that Assad is the Syrian Prez, like it or not. You can't cut him out of any peace deal. You have to deal with him.

A similar analogy is that the Donald is prez, like it or not. We have to deal with him. We just simply can't blow off either one of these 2 clowns. That's the reality

I don't disagree with you there. I'd say though that with Trump winning the USA election and the USA having not supported the rebels adequately, the USA has dealt itself out of the current difficult (or impossible?) peace process in Syria, now sponsored by Turkey and Assad's allies. Kerry admitted as much. So, Trump will likely have little if any say in this matter.

As for Tulsi, yes; we'll see. There will be other candidates who will step up, whom we can look at. Tulsi may be one of the better ones, but it is by no means clear that she can win.