Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
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A senior commander in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, General Hamid Reza Moqadam Far, was quoted in another newspaper, Kayhan, saying that Syrian civilians were now fighting rebels alongside the regime's troops.
He added that, if the rebellion was routed, it would "deliver an enormous blow to Saudi Arabia and Western countries," which Tehran sees as directly helping the insurgents.
And speaking of Saudi's....
Syria eliminates Bandar bin Sultan in retaliation for Damascus bombing....
Still looking for Bandar to show up..... :twisted: :? 8-)
Post Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:23 am by mcgowanjm Re: Iran Discussion
Post Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:23 am by mcgowanjm
The bottom line; no one knows, because no one is talking.
What is certain is that Bandar as head of Saudi intelligence was part of King Abdullah's hardcore response to the Arab Spring.
In Syria, the House of Saud strategy boils down to regime change - and a fragile, fragmented, Sunni government in Damascus not aligned with Tehran.
Internally, the strategy is to viciously smash any peaceful Shi'ite-majority protest in the eastern provinces. Essentially, there's no Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia because the House of Saud either bribes or intimidates its subjects.
The overall strategy of choice is "blame it on Iran"; as this logic goes, Saudi Shi'ites are Iranian puppets as much as Bahraini Shi'ites. The Obama administration blindly subscribes to this fallacy - totally missing the point; the House of Saud hates any semblance of Western parliamentary democracy as much as it hates Shi'ites - Iranian and otherwise.
So what happened in Riyadh? A graphic Tehran message to the House of Saud? A rogue suicide bomber? An internal Saudi war? The House of Saud is not talking. And Bandar is not moving.
Pepe Escobar
When Pepe Escobar has questions, people around the world take note.
Every day from now on that bandar does not show, is weakness for the Saudi Regime amd strength for syria/IRan.
Mr. Stone, is this your forum or does it belong to this mcgowan person? I occasionally click on a link to Liberty's Flame then Latest Comments and I see a huge list of posts by mcgowanjm to you and vice versa.
I have tried to read mcgowan's comments but that person seems to be for the most part a "libertarian" with the remainder being a bundle of contradictions.
So...is Liberty's Flame really a kooky libertarian website as it appears to be?
I own the site. It is a place to state your opinions and debate them with others. There are leftists and Conservatives such as myself.
I'm a Pat Buchanan, Rand Paul type conservative. I guess there is some libertarian running through me. But I find most libertarians to simply be amoral.
I own the site. It is a place to state your opinions and debate them with others. There are leftists and Conservatives such as myself.
I'm a Pat Buchanan, Rand Paul type conservative. I guess there is some libertarian running through me. But I find most libertarians to simply be amoral.
Nice...but I don't see any Libertarians around here.
Unless you mean non right wing Republicans.... and I don't think there is such a thing....
National Security Act of 1947
"The World At War: A New Germany
"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The supreme god of a fascist, to which his ends are directed, may be money or power; may be a race or a class; may be a military, clique or an economic group; or may be a culture, religion, or a political party...
We all know the part that the cartels played in bringing Hitler to power, and the rule the giant German trusts have played in Nazi conquests. Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself...
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases.
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution."
Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the US, The Danger of American Fascism
