Assad sent a letter to Pope Francis that said Assad is ready for peace talks. This is novel for a number of reasons as Assad could easily have sent that word to the U.S. or Russia via existing diplomatic channels but instead he sent a real physical letter to the Pope. (CNN: In message to Pope, Syrian President says he's ready for peace talks)
The Pope Francis juju is growing all the time. Conservative Catholics (not the only kind) are all aflutter over what to do about it as Pope Francis has been ripping all hell out of Denaro the One True God of Money.
Pope Francis has been calling out for peace but all Popes do that and I've never seen a response like this before. Maybe this has nothing to do with Pope Francis and his mojo and Assad just thought this was the appropriate way to deliver his message. Perhaps this is all because Assad figured there would be some public relations spin in reaching to a Christian authority. That seems pretty trivial so I'm really inclined to go with the Pope Francis mojo explanation.
It's most interesting to me as America has now whacked the strongmen leaders in multiple Middle Eastern countries and has subsequently seen each of them descend into terrorist chaos thereafter. Likely Assad would have been whacked also had not Russia intervened but that's just history now. It appears Assad will not get whacked so what comes after that. My guess is that he can restore order if given any realistic support.
Sure Assad is a bastard but so is Obama, the latter just kills people in other countries. They're equally brutal. In my view, it's not possible to keep order in those countries without that kind of strongman as they sure don't do very well without one.
The U.S. has tried to appoint itself as a surrogate strongman but it's really sucked at it. The local boys, much as you love to hate them, keep order a whole lot better. (I'm not ignoring what Hussein did to the Kurds but I submit what America did about it was even more destructive.)
Whenever there are multiple religions in one place, they fight. Without someone strong enough to prevent that, they will end up eating each other. This has no relationship to atheism, it's just an observation on how people are. It's utter madness and yet that's how it is.
And the irony to all of the religious combat is the religions aren't even all that different. It seems a lot of the variance is how they regard sex so ...
It's all about the sex
chugga chugga
all about the sex
Bayyyyybeeeeee
The Pope Francis juju is growing all the time. Conservative Catholics (not the only kind) are all aflutter over what to do about it as Pope Francis has been ripping all hell out of Denaro the One True God of Money.
Pope Francis has been calling out for peace but all Popes do that and I've never seen a response like this before. Maybe this has nothing to do with Pope Francis and his mojo and Assad just thought this was the appropriate way to deliver his message. Perhaps this is all because Assad figured there would be some public relations spin in reaching to a Christian authority. That seems pretty trivial so I'm really inclined to go with the Pope Francis mojo explanation.
It's most interesting to me as America has now whacked the strongmen leaders in multiple Middle Eastern countries and has subsequently seen each of them descend into terrorist chaos thereafter. Likely Assad would have been whacked also had not Russia intervened but that's just history now. It appears Assad will not get whacked so what comes after that. My guess is that he can restore order if given any realistic support.
Sure Assad is a bastard but so is Obama, the latter just kills people in other countries. They're equally brutal. In my view, it's not possible to keep order in those countries without that kind of strongman as they sure don't do very well without one.
The U.S. has tried to appoint itself as a surrogate strongman but it's really sucked at it. The local boys, much as you love to hate them, keep order a whole lot better. (I'm not ignoring what Hussein did to the Kurds but I submit what America did about it was even more destructive.)
Whenever there are multiple religions in one place, they fight. Without someone strong enough to prevent that, they will end up eating each other. This has no relationship to atheism, it's just an observation on how people are. It's utter madness and yet that's how it is.
And the irony to all of the religious combat is the religions aren't even all that different. It seems a lot of the variance is how they regard sex so ...
It's all about the sex
chugga chugga
all about the sex
Bayyyyybeeeeee
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