War

Israeli government demolishes homes of Palestinians suspected in attacks. This is like the grade-school practice where a teacher punishes the whole class because one person threw a spitball.

What is this farce about US troops training Iraqi troops? They trained Iraqi troops from 2003 to 2011.

Like I keep saying, the US doesn't want to destroy ISIS. They created ISIS, so why would they want to destroy them? They want to pressure them to topple Assad.

"Despite not only failing to degrade ISIL, the US airstrikes have also accomplished another long-standing US goal in the region: the further destabilization of the Syrian state.  It has accomplished this by bombing Syria’s energy facilities and infrastructure under the pretext of choking off the revenues ISIL receives from its illicit oil sales.  However this justification completely falls apart upon closer examination.

  

The US has been bombing oil and gas production sites, including oil fields and refineries inside Syria, and following one such strike in late September Reuters would report, “These so-called refineries are not a real target and they do not weaken Islamic State as they do not have any financial value for them," Rami Abdelrahman of the [Syrian] Observatory [for Human Rights] told Reuters.  “They are composed of trucks with equipment to separate diesel and petrol used by civilians.”  These attacks, instead of striking at ISIL’s financial base, are accomplishing only the further destruction of Syrian infrastructure."

As I said.

Somebody, maybe Cameron, maybe everybody, childishly angered Putin at the G20. Now he says he won't allow Ukrainian forces to wipe out rebels.

Now we're supposed to be scared of a Russian satellite as if the US doesn't have a bunch of secret satellites of its own in orbit.