it seems as though the conservatives may be planning to stage an attack before the next election.

anybody telling you that al qaeda is collaborating with iran neither understands al qaeda (who are violently opposed to shiite iran) nor iran (the idea that iran would launch a terrorist attack in canada is laughable). but, the sitting government doesn't have a lot of respect for your intelligence.

if they try it, make sure it backfires, eh?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06/16/irans-anti-canada-rhetoric-has-officials-on-guard-for-possible-ottawa-area-terror-attacks/

i realize this is probably hot air. but the idea that iran would attack canada is a laughable proposition that anybody with a cursory understanding of the country would not take seriously. if anything materializes, it is clear from the start that it is staged for the upcoming 2015 election cycle. and, this government in power is not an honest one, so it is not in any way beneath them.

i would not expect that canadians would respond violently or with a desire for vengeance. canadians are isolationists. i expect canadians would be thrust into a crisis on national identity that would more stringently reject the more assertive tone the sitting government has been pushing out of us.

years before 9/11, dubya famously claimed he wasn't a nation builder. indeed, he wasn't. canadians are nation builders, not soldiers. this would be a total shot to the foot.

....which is why i'm almost welcoming it. ottawa could lose a church or two, i just hope nobody gets hurt.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06/16/irans-anti-canada-rhetoric-has-officials-on-guard-for-possible-ottawa-area-terror-attacks/

the russian propaganda is so sneaky, the way it plays off american messaging. this is designed to build up opposition to isis, by presenting a military option against it - knowing all the time that the american policy is to quietly support isis through saudi contacts as it overthrows the "lost" iranian-backed iraqi government.

the americans would be more like to provide air support for these guys in iraq, as they've been trying to set up the circumstances to allow in syria. but, see, the russians want you to oppose this, because they know that's game over for their interests in the region.

but, it doesn't challenge the american lie, it takes it to it's logical conclusion. sneaky.

but iraq just elected this guy last month. it's true that the american rhetoric on democracy rarely approximates anything approaching reality, but it's really absurdly off the wall to ask a government with a weeks old mandate to resign in the face of a terrorist insurgency.

what's clear, though, is that the reason the americans are not providing iraq with weapons to fight off the terrorists is that they'd prefer that the terrorists eject the government, because it's perceived as too close to iran. the rest of this is some kind of twisted mafia charade presenting itself as political theatre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGHiecfrCGQ

yeah, more or less.

iraq just elected this guy. the american rhetoric on democracy rarely approximates anything approaching reality, but it's really off the wall to ask a government with a weeks old mandate to resign in the face of a terrorist insurgency.

10muji
America goes by the principle " with great power, comes great responsibility " It then imposes what it think's is the correct way to go on every1 else.

deathtokoalas
i really don't think they operate on any principle at all except the one that might makes right. in this case, they seem to want the guy out simply because he's not obeying their orders. it doesn't hurt that the saudis think he's a heretic, but it's just mafia bullshit at the nitty gritty.

10muji
In other words, America feels " It's time for a puppet change "

the americans are planning an invasion, it's very clear - it was the purpose of distracting the russians in ukraine, and it's been expanded to an anti-maliki operation in iraq as well. this is about replacing russian/iranian influence with saudi/american influence. it's the real thing. it can't end with another outcome.

i just want to get a bit more in depth, though...

it's obviously incomparably worse than ukraine, but it's the same kind of irreversible pandora's box. the assad people understand that they're fighting a saudi invasion being driven by a ruthless ideology, and that a cease-fire is just an opportunity for them to regroup and replan. it follows that it is not only the case that the syrian government cannot accept a ceasefire, but it is the case that it cannot restrain from escalating. they've already begun bombing iraq, and they have to eventually begin bombing the saudis. that's the possible serious crisis point, as it brings everybody in, but it's irreversible.

thought experiment: suppose assad can theoretically expel the saudis from the country (and they're centered in iraq, now, remember). can we expect assad to quietly rebuild syria? no, because it understands that the saudis would be planning a new invasion. assad has no option but to seek to control iraq first and ultimately attempt to depose the saudi theocracy.

it follows that the americans have to remove assad. and it's been clear for months that they're preparing us for the action, which will neither be quick nor clean.

note: i thought this was june 5, 2014, rather than june 5, 2013. it doesn't change my comment, but it takes it to a slightly different context.