Russia says “you’re welcome” for the intelligence that led to the attack on al-Baghdadi’s convoy.

I said legitimate, I didn’t say nice. Four years of bloody war and somehow the atrocities are conveniently all on one side? Yeah, okay. You’re also increadibly naive if you thing the ‘moderate’ rebels will just hand over control to fair elections upon achieving victory, or that ISIS and AQ will just pack up and leave.…

Sorry, but you’re completely wrong. Our media has been sporadically covering our training and equipping of rebels for the past three years, and now it’s finally developing into a scandal after the degree to which our gear and trained militants have ended up with ISIS or Al-Qaeda is becoming painfully obvious. The…

The Falcons of Mount Zawiya Brigade? Part of the Al-Qaeda led Army of Conquest. CIA trained and equipped. I don’t think highly of them at all. If this is your idea of the good guys...

Actually legitimate governments do that all the time.

Okay. So what’s your solution? Assad should leave? Would you be willing to live under the kind of forces that are likely to replace him?

You seem very selective in your anger and who you direct it at. 150,000 dead and millions displaced, I’d say it’s time to end this war. The US was doing nothing towards that end, instead not hitting ISIS in any significant way and supplying at least 10,000 ‘moderate rebels’. I have no doubt that the among the rebels…

If by thousands of strikes you mean...137. One-hundred amd thirty-seven. In thirteen months. Most of those against minor targets. Oh, we made a lot more sorties than that, but only about 20% of them involved actually using a weapon.

It must be so easy to live in a world where anyone who doesn’t follow the official narrative must get their news from Russian sources.

Ah yes, Iran. The country the media wants me to hate and fear for having nuclear weapons ambitions that all 17 US intelligence agencies agree don’t actually exist. Hell, Israeli Mossad now admits Iran does not, and never has had, a nuclear weapons program. The same Iran that Senator Cruz assures me is the “number one…

You mean the deal they’ve bent over backwards to comply with the insane conditions of? The deal that imposes an inspection regime former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell Lawrence Wilkerson described as the most severe ever imposed on a nation that hasn’t first been defeated in war? The deal to prevent a nuclear weapons…

I can only assume you’ve never heard of the 28 redacted pages of the 9/11 Commission Report.

Isolation? Funny, because I see Russi and China greatly strengthening ties and Russia forming the core of a rapidly forming alternative powerblock to the domination of the petrodollar. And in the Middle-east I see both Jordan and Iraq signing up with the Russian anti-ISIS coalition in what, depending on how it plays…

Then you badly need to open up a history book and learn why rules governing warfare came into existence. They were born in the aftermath of monumental horror.

Because leaders are usually cowards. Entire armies can fight and die, but the key is they’re armies of other people. Making killing of leaders legal, that sets a bad precedent. The next one might be you.

Or the much simpler explanation is that Obama screwed up. It fits well with the rest of his record.

And ISIS isn’t the mujahideen. ISIS is organized much more like a conventional army, with bases and command posts and supply caches.

Why are you trying to be dismissive and flippant? Pay attention to the news sometime. It’s been known for months that our ‘moderate rebels’ have been handing weapons over to ISIS and often outright joining it themselves. Now the vultures of serious inquiry are starting to circle, and Russia has entered the fray…