Interest is going negative these days …

Trend setting.

No sacrifice is too great for the benefits of diversity. Literally.

This kind of thing never happens to asians.

If only there were some white people they could shoot.

… until you get the bill.

Fifty years ago “civil rights” were about the involuntary servitude of whites. Negros could always have a meal. What was important was telling you to make it.

Today “civil rights” are about the involuntary servitude of white Christians. Sodomites could always have a cake. What is important is telling you, not muslims, to make it.

Didn’t I see this in one of the early Planet of the Apes movies?

The negros could just buy the houses for practically nothing but that would mean living in a black neighborhood.

If the white people move in they’ll never be able to afford those same buildings.

If you don’t bribe them to come, you will only get “gutsy people willing to take initiative and run risks for a better life”. They are called Boers.

The pilgrims didn’t come for the EBT.

Please continue …. Barbados and …

When you compare one island with the billions, literal billions, you have proved my point.

You mean like Nevada …

Haven’t we learned yet that the only place all negros find tolerable to live is among white racist oppressors?

Their doom is that oppression is going extinct or escaping. They must pursue it. Why should any white South African’s imaginary lines give sanctuary?

It must have something to do with the people that built America from scratch after giving everybody else a millennia head start.

Now she’s just one of lots of countries that traded prosperity for diversity.

You lost. Your beloved treasonous racist Confederacy didn’t even make it 5 years.
Get over it.

Lincoln didn’t die for his country. He died to take my country.

Orwell forgot "Experience is Prejudice".

Outlaw Josey Wales …

Lone Watie: I didn’t surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender. They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I bet.

What it takes is stupider whites and they’re on the way!

Since when did the law have anything to do with safe driving?

Passing on the right sure beats driving in a tightly packed formation. I don’t even slow down.

Orwell was right. War is peace. Freedom is bondage. Experience is prejudice. Ignorance is tolerance.

Why pay them to leave? Stop paying to import them.

Romney’s shoes had higher IQs than Obama voters … What’s your point?

I think the words your looking for are “well programmed”, not “nasty and cowardly” … obviously no thought or reasoning is going into their words and actions.

Kind of like how they are permitted to be offended by Vick’s animal abuse but negro rape and femicide are unseen to the masses.

“Will I be happy? Yes, but you won’t know it.”
Response from a never married Lothario to a question asked by an innocent man about to get married. A passage in a movie.

“A woman marries hoping he’ll change. A man marries hoping she doesn’t change. They are both in for disappointment” Author Unknown

Rationality has literally become a crime.

How come the greater that you are exposed to/ know an oppressed minority (fill in the blank), the greater you are prejudiced?

Isn’t that called experience?

Why? Who exactly do republicans represent anyway … they try to represent negros but democrats keep raising their bid of other people’s money.

Worldwide, the only thing separating any negro anywhere from the typical Zimbabwe, Liberia, Haitian ad nauseum experience is their white racist oppressor.

They are never leaving voluntarily. Pay them and they’ll be back with their hands out.

It is unthinkable to stop paying them to come …

… meanwhile on actual broadcast TV

http://www.redicecreations.com/TV/2014/Insight-ep5.php

Genesis 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Pretty much.

… yea but at least we got a defunded security wall in the deal.

GOP — this is what in it for YOU!

Negros without white racist oppression experience mass starvation, pestilence, even greater crime, etc. They bitch and deny but they know.

There’s no line to escape to any of the noted black utopias. Apartheid South Africa had a black immigration problem but it’s getting better with the dwindling population of abusers on which to cling.

… and thus ends the dream of ending nuclear proliferation. Thanks Obama.

GREAT ARTICLE, FRED. LET US FIGHT BACK.

I just hope the internet remains free. I hope the people will wake up sooner than later and vote for Republicans who can keep the internet free.

I agree with you on everything else. The US Supreme Court is a joke.

I believe technology will provide other avenues to access sites too, though that remains to be seen.

Nope, The LOTR is the exception that proves the rule. All black is fine. All white is racist.

You should ask one sometime what % of the US is black … you’ll be amazed.

I have to disagree with Mr. Sailor.

There is an abundance of untapped black. They really seem to despise black. Reality indicates its one of the greatest bluffs of all time. It’s more like black is great. Here have some. Not-black for me! Black is sooo cool for you though.

I hear Precious is available … Act fast. Hannah Davis is taken.

White Americans trailed Canadians by only 4 points

Maybe the diversity not only brings down the avg. score, but also acts as brakes for the potentially more advanced learners … no student being left behind.

Am I the only one that says everybody just use the same ball … like when we were kids and it was a freakin’ game!

Yea, what happened to it? It was supposed to protect lenders from blowing millions on African immigrants.

What exactly is PMI? Is it ever paid out or just another way to pump up the payment?

Raad his past posts. He can really cut through the BS. If we had politicians like him we’d have a lot less problems.

Wouldn’t work. Why secede back to a nation they escaped from? Figuring those areas going back to Mexico would become as bad as the rest of Mexico we’d only have to deal with the same people jumping the new border back into whatever remains of the U.S.

If we can’t change character I guess the whole point of teaching character is to learn how to identify those with bad character.

Mr. Napolitano,

Could you provide the link to Mr. Oz’s comments?

Thanks,

Bob

Life would be far less colorful without the pithy writings of Fred Reed. Thanks mate!
As regards the last column on the black problem:
What a pity blacks can’t just simply be shipped back to where they all came from. Chasing each other down and beating the daylights out of each other with knobkerries, living in mud huts drinking cow urine….

Ace Frehley recorded a track called “Fractured Mirror” on his first solo album in the late 1970s. Very good it is too, but an instrumental, so no pertinent lyrical content.

Off-topic: English movie director Mike Figgis was being discussed here a week or two ago, and the fact that he has some cousins resident in Ireland was taken unquestioningly by several posters as proof that he himself “is” Irish (and has Irish facial features, a sense of displacement that only an Irishman in a foreign land can feel, etc etc).

The opposite appears to be the case: “Figgis” is an old English name, originally from the eastern shires, and any Figgises in Ireland are presumably descended from English settlers either ancient or modern (or are actual English immigrants).

Just thought I’d point that out.

So will there now be people holding up “I love NYC” signs? You know, to let the world that NYC is not a seething morass of backward racists? Will “NYC” be another name which will live in infamy like Selma? For that matter, will there be multiple articles about how the cops and the evil greedy city council shake down minorities with cigarette taxes? Will Obama be repeatedly asked whether he plans to visit NYC?
Or are the rules for NYC totally different than for Ferguson?

Was that how the 90’s Satanic-rape-day-care hoaxes were resolved? By being more diligent in contacting the alleged perpetrators?

Or was it, perhaps, resolved by saying “Mass satan-worshipping super-secret rape centers? Really?” Kinda like “Mass rape on broken glass in the DARK? With no hospitalization? Really?”

You’re right in what you’re saying about how to interact with cops.

But my point here is that when hundreds of people are being shot by cops in a year there’s a problem somewhere. I’m a pretty run of the mill white guy and I’ve certainly been in situations where cops and authority figures have been rude as a default and seemed to be saying “just give me a reason”. I never would escalate, but should guys with guns and a stacked deck to approve the use of force be able to start any interactions that way? Lots of criminal types have problems with authority and most cops know how to deal with that really well. But there are a decent sized minority of high-school-bully types that make things worse.

This is basically my point about a mid-level problem that can’t be addressed because giving ground on what is a real issue seems to many people the equivalent of saying that Michael Brown was an gentle angel who was executed by a KKK grand wizard while on his way to enroll in college.

This is a typically excellent point and a big part of why it’s so hard to make progress on so many fronts in the US. Laying out the facts of a fair to middling problem doesn’t get anybody interested so the megaphone gets turned up to 11. Which of course then gets pushback because those affected and casual observers see that the problem isn’t on that level and then, as Steve points out, there’s a tendency to assume everything is exaggerated and to ignore the real, but relatively mild problems.

The world of fraternities has some pretty obvious issues that should have been addressed years ago, but for many reasons haven’t been. However it’s pretty obvious that they aren’t organized raping clubs so this is an open invitation to both tune out stories about real problems and for true believes to ramp up the rhetoric. The end result being everybody things everybody else is nuts and not interested in real problems. The same goes for gun control, health care, cop violence and a whole host of US social issues.

The same with Ferguson. Wilson wasn’t out to execute a black guy that morning, but at the same time I wouldn’t be shocked if his initial interaction with those guys wasn’t exactly his version “Guys, how about the sidewalk”, but more of Johnson’s “Get on the f’ing sidewalk”. A lot of cops have chips on their shoulder and that’s a problem when they’re armed and enjoy a lot of legal protections for using violence.

I understand that the Bosnians can help themselves by pushing the anti-Bosnian hate crime angle, but it would be nice if, having established their ethnic minority credentials, they could come out as white people and fight on that front as well.

How do you know if a Polish girl has her period? She’s wearing only one sock.

You think Polack jokes are evidence of white racism against Poles/slavs? Are you insensate in your stupidity? Polack jokes are goyim jokes—when the shtettlites headed out from the Pale of Settlement for our fair shores, they brought their charming folk hatred of the goyim/Polacks/slavs with them. It seemed wise to them to say Polack rather than goyim in telling their cute stories on the American comedy circuit, though. Jews really, really don’t like you slavs. Well, they like to traffic your girls, and they like to have them work in their brothels. But that’s a whole different kind of like.

You’re kinda proving them right with your whole “white people hates us slavs” schtick, though. Dumb, dumb, stupid, dumb, dumb.

Just hang around unz.com for the next time the Ukraine comes up. See exactly what kind of commenter is promoting the whole “Russians are subhumans” concept.

Interesting lay reference to “robust”
http://elitedaily.com/sports/polynesians-genetically-engineered-best-football-players/778724/

Nice one Fred Reed, I won’t bother to read anymore of your stuff.

‘Is there an argument that wanting to have children was “selected for”? If so, I’d like to see it.’

I think that any argument against this notion would have to center on what “wanting” something really means. Do rabbits want to have children? It sure seems like it, but you can’t ask a rabbit what it “wants”. Do drug addicts want to take drugs? It sure seems like it, but many of them would say that they do not want to take drugs. Yet, they do take them compulsively, which seems like they do want to.

At an unconscious level, all organisms are selected for wanting to have children. Wanting to have sex is a byproduct of wanting to have children, not the other way around.

While I’m sure it’s hard being so much more virtuous than everybody else all the time, I bet it’s absolutely exhausting having to constantly explain how much more virtuous you are than everybody else all the time.

Ref the truculent truckers, I don’t care if they all go out of business. Let it happen, in fact bring it on – double, no treble the fines, step up the searches. If there are no trucks then there’s no way in for the huddled masses of the vibrant. They’ll soon realise this and hopefully go and bother some other country. Tough on the truckers, maybe. But stemming the inflow of human detritus to my country is somewhat more important to me.

Different but the same: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2761556/Why-allowed-UK-Prime-suspect-hunt-missing-Alice-wife-murderer-Latvia.html

Yesterday police finally found the body of a fragile (she was anorexic) young girl who went missing a month ago in west London. It seems highly likely that she was murdered (and who knows what else) by a man who migrated here from Latvia in 2007. There is free movement between EU states, so he was able to come here without anyone having any power to stop or even question him.

Which is unfortunate, because in 1997 he had stabbed and bludgeoned his own wife to death. It was pre-meditated, he showed no remorse, and he concealed the body – so it was about as bad as a murder gets. But once he’d served his sentence, he was free to come here and inflict the same fate on a more-or-less defenceless English schoolgirl going for an afternoon walk.

And what’s more, he was arrested and questioned about a sexual assault on another young girl in 2009. He wasn’t charged, but even so, no alarm went off, nothing alerted police about his past. Nothing.

Of course, it would be just gauche to suggest that having committed a heinous crime should in any way prevent you from being allowed to migrate to our country and pick off its young girls one by one. But nonetheless people are starting to ask some awkward questions. And we have a general election coming in a few months. And something is lurking on the horizon. It looks like UKIP.

Well aren’t you a special little snowflake.

Oh Bert – thank god for big strong men like you – you are so selfless, so ready with words that lead us into battle – always waving the flag, cheering us on – just think of all the good patriotic feelings you elicit in us as we go off to war to kill and die – just think of all the joyful tears your kind have brought to humanity.

You admonish me – the task of peace is for the weak – what a fool I am for wanting a peaceful world, when we have real men like you who are leading us on to manly glory.

Thanks so much – Bob

I’m not sad about Michael Brown. I’m glad. The world is better off without him.

Calling you a racist does not sufficiently describe your cultural lowness.

When Ferguson finally becomes a black mono-culture, the all-black police force won’t bother yelling at large, intoxicated black men walking in the middle of the street.

Hmm – who has the superior culture – the one that kills the drunk – really?

The black people of Ferguson have some complicity in this killing and this sad situation.

They did not vote for themselves. Half the people of Ferguson are black – but the government is white.

Never give guns to those who both hate you and lord it over you.

Clearly they will use them on you.

Selection is always happening, but it would be very difficult to know how strong it is until a later time.

Despite Moffat’s clear idiocy, it is very possible that there is actually a strong selection for blue eyes in the UK today. I might go so far as to say that the fact that the blue eye locus displays one of the highest signals of selection in western Europe actually puts the burden of proof on those that say it is not currently under strong selection.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/breaking-mike-brown-autopsy-expert-is-not-a-doctor-has-degree-in-non-existent-medical-field-video/

While it might be rare for Americans to have Native American DNA segments from long ago, it seems to not be uncommon for them to have around 1% African admixture.

I have helped a considerable number of extended family members (mostly not actually related to myself) in the interpretation if their 23andme tests. Many of them have Sub-Saharan African segments.

I personally was surprised to see it in my own genome, as I have a lot of genealogical data. Tracing back as best as I could by using comparison to known relatives and people who share segments on 23andme, my African relative(s) must have lived around the Virginia/Maryland/Carolina area before 1750.

” Something more thorough will go up on the Family Tree DNA blog at some point soon. ”

Razib Kahn – Are you starting starting to contribute to the blog At FTDNA? Should we check it periodically? I see you were their spokesman (?) at I4GG.

Those security cam pictures are amazing. They destroy the narrative that the media has been pushing more thoroughly than any number of words could do. After just a glance at the pics, it’s just impossible to continue to claim that Brown was some harmless kid minding his own business before he was shot.

It’s not clear if the cop knew that Brown was a robbery suspect. However, it’s clear that Brown knew what he had done 15 minutes earlier, and given his idiotic behavior at the store, it’s not implausible that he would have tried to reach for the cop’s gun. He was probably under the influence of something.

Hello Razib, I note “The Millennial Project” in your goodreads list. I remember reading it a long time ago. It was such a hopeful book. It certainly left me with a buoyant our future is ours to choose feel. Alas the OTEC powered future does not look bright. I have not lost all hope though perhaps Elon can get us there in his own inimitable “Man Who Sold the Moon” sort of way.

OT (kind of) – there has been an amusing reaction to the case of a black American who has died in Liberia (the case itself is not amusing). He did not have ebola, but was in a coma, and was prevented from leaving by the Liberian government. The fact that two white missionaries, one of them a doctor, were flown back to the USA to be treated for Ebola, is proof positive of RACISM! I know it’s hardly novel to observe the stupidity of vibrant (and some non-vibrant) Americans when it comes to perceiving the phantom R, but the comments below the story reveal an absolute cognitive chasm.

http://www.blackyouthproject.com/2014/08/healthy-u-s-man-in-africa-dies-after-being-denied-re-entry-due-to-ebola-outbreak/

From CeCe Moore’s Genealogy blog plugging forthcoming I4GG Conference:
http://www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/

MEET THESE WORLD RENOWNED GENETIC GENEALOGY EXPERTS:
Dr. Spencer Wells – The Genographic Project (keynote)
Joanna Mountain – 23andMe
Julie Granka – AncestryDNA
Razib Khan for Family Tree DNA
Judy Russell
David Pike
CeCe Moore
Maurice Gleeson …

My goodness. He’s come over fron the Dark Side. Up amongst the biggies. congratulations.

Can’t help but look at those numbers and think if only we could make those Black & Hispanic women home owners. Only good could come of that, right?

I have yet to find a correlation statistic for predicting infant/toddler height to adulthood. Please tell if you know.

Is this what you’re looking for?

http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/2000growthchart-us.pdf

A Chautauqua on Lake Michigan
http://www.bayviewassociation.org/

The money they spend keeping up the cottages is welcome in the local area.

My mid 40s newlywed coworker really loves his young Philippine bride.

I feel that an employable spouse (husband or wife) forgoing the pursuit of a professional career for a few years to avoid what is seen as prohibitive peripheral costs incurred due to being employed misses the point. And that point is that regardless of the costs incurred specifically due to the second spouse working are not the real price you pay. You are basically “getting out of line” career-wise. And professionally the world moves on without you. Frequently when you try to reinsert yourself into the level that you want to be at you will find that you are not as desireable as you would have been if you had “stayed in line”. Additionally, as a potential employee, you’ll be looked at as someone that would cut and run for the same reasons when you have another kid.

This is “Chalibi the thief” we are talking about right? You gloss it over, but this would be like electing the Countrywide guy.

Giraldi should stop speculating on a Libertarian foreign policy and just look at what they’re doing, namely a world policy using private groups to overthrow dictatorships while the CIA is clueless. Half of the libertarian fans are in China and India, for heaven’s sake.

I would suggest that to see what actual Libertarians and fans are doing, start at http://www.LibertarianInternational.org the Libertarian International.

The lack of research in this article is astounding. CATO as ‘establishment’ Libertarian? etc.

To see what actual Libertarians and fans are doing, see http://www.LibertarianInternational.org the Libertarian International.

Siemens is good with you, but not so much with V-dare when I forget I left the VPN on.

Looks more and more like Turkey is aiding and abetting know international terrorists groups. Erdogan has a lot of blood on his hands much of it civilians from all creeds and races

Patrick Cockburn has misunderstood fundamentally.

He writes: “Not many people have heard of the St Brice’s Day massacre on 13 November 1002 when the Anglo-Saxon king, Ethelred the Unready, ordered the deaths of all Danes in his kingdom. In Oxford, surviving Danes barricaded themselves in a church (where Christ Church Cathedral now stands) and successfully defended themselves until townspeople set fire to the church. The skeletons of some 34 young men believed to have been killed in the same massacre were discovered under St John’s College in 2008.

Overall, the Scandinavians have a lot to apologise for. ”

The Anglo-Saxons came from the European continent and invaded England from around the fifth century. At around the time of the Viking era it is natural to think of the Anglo-Saxons as the “Englishmen”.

“Danes” was the Anglo-Saxon term used to refer to the Vikings from Denmark.

So the incidents that Patrick Cockburn refers to is about ENGLISHMEN SLAUGHTERING VIKINGS in large numbers in very brutal ways. Patrick Cockburn uses this incident to claim that the descendants of the Vikings should apologize to the Englishmen!?

Patrick Cockburn seems to have limited abilities in the field of reading comprehension.

FWIW Stalin’s Jews

“…We mustn’t forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish”

http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html

While I honestly sympathize with the suffering that Ukrainians went through in the last couple hundred of years…

Google banderowcy and click on Images.

The Ukrainian nationalists even came up with a list of 135 torture and butchering methods, for men, women and CHILDREN.

http://wolyn1943.eu.interiowo.pl/artykuly.html

Run through Google Translate for the details of what these evil people came up with.

What is really sickening is how Ukrainians allow the extremists in their midst to run free. I doubt most Ukrainians have any clue as to what their founding fathers and heroes did to Poles when western Ukraine was Polish.

Scott Locklin says:

“Yeah, considering the commies snuffed out 10 million or so Ukrainians, you might wonder why they hold a bit of a grudge against those poor innocent commie”

When asked about three months ago, with these protests already taking off, who they considered the biggest international threat, Ukrainians chose the USA – by enormous margin – as the top threat.

33% voted for the USA. 5%, or approx. 7 times less, voted for Russia.

This was about in line with the poll results overall. 65 countries around the world were polled. The USA again emerged as by far the top international threat.

About a quarter of people voted for the USA.

2% voted for Russia.

Poll was by Win/Gallup, the Swiss international polling agency.

http://www.wingia.com/en/survey/end_of_year_survey/

O’Reilly is nothing but a demagogue. For a perfect example, see the transcript of his conversation with Dr. Francis Boyle re invading Afghanistan:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2001/09/15/a-debate-between-bill-o-reilly-and-law-professor-francis-boyle/

“Demagogues usually oppose deliberation and advocate immediate, violent action to address a national crisis; they accuse moderate and thoughtful opponents of weakness.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue

O’Reilly adheres exactly to the definition.

Jack Kane hit the nail on the head.

The judge said, “After Yanukovich showed up at Putin’s doorstep in Moscow, Putin flexed his muscles by sending 16,000 Russian troops, in uniforms without insignias and wearing black masks (you cannot make this up), over the border to occupy Crimea, a province of Ukraine, which had been part of Russia and the Soviet Union until 1954.”

Well, apparently you can “make this stuff up”, because the judge just did. Jack Kane covers the facts.

” Razib Khan says:
… look at west asia on the map:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Asia
you are free to your own personal definition. but don’t assume and use it with others.”

Do you generally adhere to these UN regional definitions when you refer to regions like ‘Northern European’, ‘Southwest Asian’, etc?

The problem seems to me to be not only that race is malleable, or IQ is dubious, but that both are somewhat inaccurate. So (a) saying something about mental retardation is not terribly to the point. To repeat what ES has said above. Nobody is denying that, as a rough measure, IQ is decent enough (although, one you move beyond that level, you get into a whole lot of problems). (b) The fact that you can have some rough measure of “race” is likewise and for much the same reason not to the point. (c) Studies need to allow for the malleability of/approximation involved in both factors, when both are in some way problematic, and such studies will remain somewhat approximate. This is related to the fact that if you take two less than sensible utterances together, and mash them up, you will end up with a third utterance which is less sensible than the first two, no matter how much you work on de-problematizing either. (d) as far as social policy goes, surely some of the evidence for that is just as (un)reliable as anything else comparable including race, and IQ. I am against affirmative action, but the way to argue against it is surely not to take two highly disputed factors and to jumble them up and come up with a third.

With philladelphialawyer, I find this comment thread a bit strange, given that, not only in this article, but in previous commentary, Ron Unz has been cited as against purely racialist theories, including quite prominently in the Richwine “defenestration” in support of said defenestration.

the saudi’s have been arming the rebels – syrians & various outsiders with a sunni wahibi jihadist, anti awalite, agenda since violence broke out. there is clear evidence but it doesn’t go mainstream. batches of swiss made nato hand grenades, sold to saudi arabia, keep turning up in rebel hands. but its been getting steadily more serious, ex yugoslav army hardware from croatia is being bought & sent to rebels by saudi’s. this is more serious weaponry, you can actually see rebels using ex yugoslav recoiless anti tank guns popping up now in you tube footage.
many jihadists are international mercenaries who go from conflict to conflict, funded by the saudi’s, with their wahibi islamist agenda. it was never widely reported that imported jihadists with saudi funding were imported into the bitter bosnian conflict in the 1990’s.

When you break down violent crime (rape and murder) by race you’ll get some very interesting statistics. Liberals, of course, don’t want to hear about it.

US heart attack rates/ethnicity/seed zone

http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fs_men_heart.htm

http://www.forestseedlingnetwork.com/resources/seed-zone-maps/other-maps/usda-hardiness-zones.aspx

Yeah, i dont think anyone disputes this. Though in the comics the black nick fury is a try hard and isnt as cool as the old grizzled original. Black nick fury was made for movies, so it makes complete sense to go with that characterization. Especially given the lack of black marvel superheroes, it adds big studio approved diversity.

Syria: None of our business.

Andrew:
Somehow you missed this part:
If there has ever been a situation that makes the case for non-intervention, it would be Syria. But the role of Washington in the Syrian conflict is not terribly clear and a lot depends on where one looks. At the UN and State Department there have been repeated calls for Assad to leave. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded in June that Assad step down and depart the country while President Barack Obama has declared that the US is “doing everything [it] can” to help the opposition. CIA, operating out of Turkey, has been helping the rebels with small arms, training, and some intelligence on army movements. But its more important task has been vetting the rebels to determine if they are truly reformers and friendly to the United States or, alternatively, Jihadis exploiting the situation as they did in Libya and to a certain extent in Iraq.

Sing “Melancholy Baby”.

> “Dad, how can you listen to that stuff?”

Old is relative, especially to us old folks.

@#2 “That intuition has led us astray in the past, so we need a check on that.”

No doubt.