What if Assad chooses to "deal with the remains of ISIS" by negotiating a separate peace with them (including a provision that lets them rebuild their "caliphate" to the point that it becomes the same threat that they were at their peak); or, worse, decides to co-opt them and use them for his own purposes while maintaining "plausible deniability" with regard to their actions?
Also, what if Putin gets the same idea and starts *funding* them and using them as a stalking horse to destabilize the area? These questions have to be asked...
What if Assad chooses to "deal with the remains of ISIS" by negotiating a separate peace with them (including a provision that lets them rebuild their "caliphate" to the point that it becomes the same threat that they were at their peak); or, worse, decides to co-opt them and use them for his own purposes while maintaining "plausible deniability" with regard to their actions?
Also, what if Putin gets the same idea and starts *funding* them and using them as a stalking horse to destabilize the area? These questions have to be asked...
Nasty, bigoted, abusive, manipulative and authoritarian as she was, she *at least* had a modicum of teaching experience.
Very literally.
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Aw! I'm sure that Dad will be especially delighted to see you, then. It will mean a lot to him!
It's not an addiction, I swear! I can quit anytime I want!
It'd make 'em sound smarter than they do naow.
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December 21st is often called the 'shortest day of the year.' But it sure as hell felt like the longest.
I only remember it because I was a DoD civilian at the time, in the force movement business. That was pretty good money, but man, do I not miss it!
Dissolved into the paint thinner.
Trumpy's always loved the undereducated.
Keep it up. One straw will break the camel's back.
good LORD you have a druid kitty.
you are truly a kitty inspiration.
i'm reading 10 hour old wonkette comments.
Just because you are willing to be slurred because of a genetic condition you possess doesn't mean others are.