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/New from Linux Beach:// / How the Left's shill for Obama's red-line con fueled the rise of ISIS <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-lefts-shill-for-obamas-red-line-con.html> <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-lefts-shill-for-obamas-red-line-con.html> > For four years now, US President Barack Obama has been conning the > world and most importantly, the Syrian people, about his support for > the popular uprising to overthrow the fascist dictatorship of Bashar > al-Assad. He has been playing an old con game with Assad's opposition, > one best played by people with power, known as /"Good Cop, Bad Cop"./ > > In the game of /"Good Cop, Bad Cop"/ you are confronted by two cops. > One is mean, roughs you up, and is clearly intent on sending you to > Hell. The other speaks out in your favor, claims to see your side, > befriends you, complains about the /"Bad Cop"/ and brings you the > occasional candy bar. In the case of some /"favored"/ Syrian rebel > brigades, that might be as little as 16 bullets > <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/27/exclusive-obama-cuts-funds-for-the-syrian-rebels-he-claims-to-support.html> > per man. Just enough for the shills to call them /"the US-backed > rebels."/ The /"Good Cop"/ always claims that he would do more but for > the constraints put on him by the police organization, in this case > the United Nations, and his partner, in this case Vladimir Putin. The > /"Good Cop"/ works hard to convince the target that he is in the > mark's corner just so that he will be in a position to pull the rug > out from underneath the victim of the con at the critical moment, > known as The Sting. > > Getting the mark to believe something that is not true is pivotal to > every con job and that's why every grift requires a shill. The Long > Con <http://leverage.wikia.com/wiki/The_Long_Con> says of this role > /"The Shill: An accomplice to the grifter, who has no apparent > connection to the con. Shills are put in place to encourage the mark > to act in the desired way." /The book also says /"Long cons play on > one or both basic human frailties: greed and desperation."/ In the > case of Syria, it has been the desperation of a people facing daily > slaughter that has led the mark to seek the aid of the grifter in the > first place. > > Given the lack of much of a material reality behind Obama's /"support > for the Syrian rebels"/, he badly needed a shill to pull his con off. > He needed a seemingly independent, or better still, seemingly > oppositional voice, also loudly claiming that Obama really was for > overthrowing Assad. The Left obliged him, even staging years of > /"Hands off Syria"/ demonstrations, as if! As if Obama was ever going > to get militarily involved in a serious way except on Assad's side. > > <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m35rpCW5ai0/UX7D9Le4CbI/AAAAAAAAAPI/Bx5iaRwIZWs/s1600/Obama-stolls-Assad.jpg> > Obama's famous /"red-line"/ proclamation of August 2012 has turned out > to be his most cynical and destructive con job to date. At the time I > said > <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2012/08/updated-obama-lights-assad-slaughter-in_4655.html> > he was giving a green light to Assad's slaughter by every other means. > Here we had the /"Good Cop"/ saying, I may not be able to stop the > /"Bad Cops"/, Assad and Putin, from shelling hospitals and barrel > bombing schools, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let them kill you > with chemical weapons too. It was a con from the minute he said it. > Who uses language like /"a whole bunch of chemical weapons"/ in an > ultimatum he wants taken seriously? Just what constitutes /"a whole > bunch of chemical weapons"/ anyway? How do we know when /that/ > red-line has been crossed? *More...* <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-lefts-shill-for-obamas-red-line-con.html> _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com