Let’s Listen to Syrians

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Clarissa

October 27, 2015

A Syrian refugee on the border between Slovenia and Austria says, “This is a war between Russia and the US. And we are the ones suffering. I lost 9 people from my family. This is wrong!”

Can we listen to the Syrian refugee instead of Kissinger, Carter, and every dumbass journalist who is chirping on the subject? Seriously, maybe it makes sense to hire a Syrian to write about Syria, a Ukrainian to write about Ukraine, etc. Otherwise, we get the kind of narcissistic, self-centered, projection – ridden analysis that keeps driving this country’s foreign policy into the ground.

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3 responses to “Let’s Listen to Syrians”

Stringer Bell

October 27, 2015

Unrelated, but I get a ‘404, page not found’ when I click on the Hillary Clinton post to make a comment.

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1. Clarissa
  
  October 27, 2015
  
  Can you leave it here and then I will repost it in that post?
  
  WordPress is driving me to distraction these days.
  
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  1. Stringer Bell
    
    October 27, 2015
    
    While the practice of changing positions is an admirable intellectual exercise, it does represent a political liability.
    
    If you keep changing your positions it’s very hard to convince others that you’ll fight hard on that particular issue once you get in power. I mean, how could you? Just two years ago you were a passionate gun nut and now you seem to be so passionately anti-gun (to use one example).
    
    How confident will a pro-gun-control voter will be that Hillary will spend political capital on this issue (vs so many other issues on her agenda) once she gets in power? Wouldn’t the perception be that she’ll more likely give in to the opposition?
    
    Nobody doubts Sanders will fight hard for income inequality if he becomes President (he may fail, but that’s beside the point), but I roll my eyes at Clinton when she says she cares about the middle class and despises wall street excesses. Both of them are just talking but one seems believable, the other one not quite.
    
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