{"id":37510,"date":"2018-09-08T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37510"},"modified":"2018-09-08T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T17:16:07","slug":"trump-minus-narrative-equals-bushbama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37510","title":{"rendered":"Trump Minus Narrative Equals\u00a0Bushbama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Minus Narrative Equals\u00a0Bushbama<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Barack Obama is making headlines today.\u00a0In a speech at the University of Illinois<\/a>, Obama called out the \u201cpolitics of fear\u201d which are used by his successor and criticized an insufficient denunciation of \u201cNazi sympathizers\u201d by the current administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow hard can that be?\u201d asked the former president. \u201cSaying Nazis are bad?\u201d<\/p>\n

Also in the news, getting far less attention than the sparkly spectacle of Fauxgressive Jesus wagging his finger at Orange Hitler for being too nice to Nazis, is a report from the Washington Post<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(open it in a private browser to get around the paywall) that the Trump administration has done a complete 180 degree reversal of its prior position on Syria. And before you jump on me about believing anonymously sourced reports from an establishment outlet that is fully owned by a CIA contractor<\/a>, this isn\u2019t one of those: the sources are senior State Department officials who are named in the article.<\/p>\n

According to the State Department\u2019s James Jeffrey and\u00a0Joel Rayburn, the Trump administration has now abandoned its previous goal<\/a> of pulling out of Syria as soon as possible. The conditions for ending the US military\u2019s illegal occupation of a sovereign nation now reportedly include \u201cthe exit of all Iranian military and proxy forces from Syria, and establishment of a stable, nonthreatening government acceptable to all Syrians and the international community,\u201d which is another way of saying that the occupation will continue indefinitely and regime change is back on the table.<\/p>\n

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Trump agrees to an indefinite military effort and new diplomatic push in Syria, U.S.\u00a0officials say https:\/\/www.<\/span>washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/in-a-shift-trump-approves-an-indefinite-military-and-diplomatic-effort-in-syria-us-officials-say\/2018\/09\/06\/0351ab54-b20f-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html?utm_term=.a1f0e9e79154\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a> by @<\/span>karendeyoung1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n