{"id":33537,"date":"2018-04-18T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T22:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33537"},"modified":"2018-04-18T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T22:41:45","slug":"the-civil-war-is-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33537","title":{"rendered":"The Civil War Is At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Civil War Is At Home<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Francesco Hayez The Death of the Doge Marin Faliero <\/b>1867<\/center>
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Dr. D\u2019s swift response to my essay yesterday, Every Kingdom Divided Against Itself. <\/a>On the mechanisms by which empires fall. They\u2019re always similar and familiar.<\/p>\n

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Dr. D: <\/b><\/i>Wonderfully said. Since no one will report, here\u2019s what happened to that airstrike<\/a>. The one where we declare a victory and go home (or try to).<\/p>\n

They targeted 10 sites, yet after the Pentagon said it was a perfect mission, they only reported on 4. Who were the other 6?<\/p>\n


\nDuwali airbase \u2013 4 missiles fired, 4 shot down
\nDumayr airbase \u2013 12 missiles fired, 12 shot down
\nBaley airbase \u2013 18 missiles fired, 18 shot down
\nShayrat airbase \u2013 12 missiles fired, 12 shot down
\nMarj Ruhayyil airbase \u2013 18 missiles fired, 18 shot down
\nDamascus international airport \u2013 4 missiles fired, 4 shot down
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Sounds like an amazing ad for Russian military hardware and Russian alliances, and an amazing warning to warhawks in the Pentagon to check themselves.<\/p>\n

And hold on: wouldn\u2019t bombing a major chemical weapons manufacturing facility lead to a cloud of nerve and\/or other gas killing every civilian within 20 miles? I.e. the entire capital city? Or did they know that there was nothing there already which is why they were confident it could not lead to an incident that would be recorded as the worst chemical attack of all time? You know, chemically attacking 1.7 million Syrians to save 10 Syrians from chemical attacks?<\/p>\n

Yet this illegal, reckless, and (intentionally?) futile attack is NOT ENOUGH for CNN, MSNBC and their ilk. Denouncing Trump for bombing Syria, they also denounced him for NOT bombing Syria. Adequately. Or fully mobilizing the entire U.S. military for a ground invasion.<\/p>\n

Or whatever, as weasel-faced chicken hawks, they wouldn\u2019t openly say what they wanted, only that Trump openly bombing a nation outside the U.N. without a declaration of war as they themselves demanded, was pointless and weak. Which is why they also wanted it, in side-by-side front page articles? Or like Veruca Salt they want a pony AND an oompa loompa?<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n

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The Civil War Is At Home\u00a0 Francesco Hayez The Death of the Doge Marin Faliero 1867 Dr. D\u2019s swift response to my essay yesterday, Every Kingdom Divided Against Itself. On the mechanisms by which empires fall. They\u2019re always similar and familiar. Dr. D: Wonderfully said. Since no one will report, here\u2019s what happened to that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[7364,135,920,19849,301,19850,620,13924,19851,776,5177,10522],"class_list":["post-33537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-airstrikes","tag-cia","tag-civil-war","tag-council-of-ten","tag-fbi","tag-logos","tag-pentagon","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-russian-revolution","tag-syria","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33539,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33537\/revisions\/33539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}