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Syria Gas Attack, Assad's Timing, and the Neocon-Left Overlap
from A Nuanced Man · #40
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7 minExtended debate with Ray about why Assad would gas civilians right before peace talks, whether the strike was rational strategy versus false flag suspicion, and how war hawkishness spans both neocons and the national security Democratic establishment.
- 4:54Why would Assad use chemical weapons on the eve of a peace agreement when the U.S. had already told him he could choose his own leaders?
- 5:38Tim describes Assad sitting down and deciding gassed babies in the street would be a nice bow on the president's term.
- 5:48Tim says he's very open to the false flag idea but explores what happens if Assad actually did it.
- 6:21Slavery is coming back in Africa and horrible things happen all over the world, so why focus on Syria?
- 7:11Trump was elected partly because people don't want another Iraq, and Americans simply don't care about gas attacks in Syria anymore.
- 7:38What happens after the U.S. deposes Assad? It's going to look like Providence, the caller responds, and the administration of theater will flourish.
- 8:17Tim blames Democrats and the left for clamoring to have an issue with Russia ever since the election.
- 8:40The national security establishment—Democrats and neoconservative Republicans—seems to be the same breed of people, with no real difference between Hillary Clinton and John McCain on these issues.
- 9:23We don't know a ton about Kim Jong-un because it's very tough to know a lot about North Korea.
- 9:37Tim says Kim Jong-un is at least not walking around in a dress, which would make him not rational—then preemptively asks not to be tweeted at about it.