Assad says West will pay for backing al Qaeda in Syria
President Bashar Assad accused the West on Wednesday of supporting al Qaeda militants in Syria’s civil war and warned they would turn against their backers and strike
You’ll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s the root of all our problems,” Obama said. “You should reject these voices. Because what these suggest is that our brave, creative, unique experiment in self-rule is just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.
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- Obama speaking at Ohio State
Dissent is not allowed. Get back in line, citizen.
Commonplaces: DRONES
Moral calculus of drones: the instinctive belief that war transformed by distance makes the ending of a life (or lives, and, in particular, those lives called ‘collateral’) *more* obscene. But the history of war has also been the history of technology designed to kill over greater distances,…
