The Syrian government is slapping sanctions on trade with the United States after the US sanctioned in response to Syrian support of terrorism worldwide.
Of course, considering that outside of a small amount of oil, Syria’s main exports are chintzy Middle Eastern knicknacks, I dount this move is exactly going to strike fear in the hearts of the US…
UPDATE: I like Laurence Simon’s reaction to the Syrian sanctions:
The only export of note from Syria is terrorism. And I’d be glad if they stuck to distributing it to the appeasers in the Paris, Berlin, and London foreign offices.
Of course, he neglects Syria’s second-most common export: vicious anti-Semitism – a commodity which seems to always be in demand…
Has Lebanon enacted their own sanctions, too, or did Hariri manage to slack his puppet strings long enough to take a nap?
I’ll give Laurence Simon credit for one thing. He at least admits what many on the right have been wishing for since the Iraq War began….that France and Germany are struck by terrorism. Since you are celebrating this comment, I can only assume that you feel the same way. This comes as no surprise, but it does undermine you guys’ argument about nothing being more important than “stopping radical Islam” when you come right out and say that civilians in Paris and Berlin should be murdered by terrorists because you think it would score cheap political points towards your bloodthirsty neoconservative crusade.
You’ll have to excuse Mark. He wouldn’t understand sarcasm if it bit him in the ass.
Actually, Jay, I wasn’t being sarcastic. I don’t think I’m the only one who wouldn’t mind Jack Straw shaking hands with Bashar Assad and then going up in a puff of flame, nails, and rat poison.
Who’s not understanding sarcasm there Reding? It’s pretty sad when even like-minded right-wing nutjobs can’t tell when their hate-mongering is to be perceived literally or sarcastically. Anyway, once you land on the same galaxy as your loony-tune right-wing brethren, then I might start listening to your lectures on sarcasm. In the meantime, it looks like you could take a lesson from me on the subject. 🙂
With you it’s always hard to tell… 🙂
Now, having Jacques Chirac stuck in a cell at Gitmo with an unwashed Khalid Sheik Mohammad I might be able to go for. Especially if KSM were randy and Chirac was covered in camel fur…
What an interesting turn of events. When I asserted that wishing for French and Germans civilians to be slaughtered by terrorists was rhetoric more hateful than anything coming from the left, I was told to lighten up and recognize the sarcasm. Yet when the author of the statement reveals he wasn’t being sarcastic, and that he does wish for French and German civilians to be murdered by terrorists, Mr. Reding responds with the same level of light-heartedness. When Jay Reding perceived a call for more terrorism in Europe to be sarcasm, it was a joke. When Jay Reding was told that a call for more terrorism in Europe was to be taken seriously, it’s still a joke. Those calling for civil discourse from their politically rivals generally don’t applaud acts of terrorism against those same political rivals on the same day.
Mark: Please remove the stick from your ass before it causes damage.
For the record, I would rather not see any acts of terrorism in Europe, although I think European policies make that more and more likely. In fact, look back at my response to the Madrid attacks if you’ve any doubts about that.
Unfortunately it may take another attack for Europe to wake up to the threat of terrorism – if even then.
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This blog just doesn’t make any sense. I think republicans are the worst thing on earth: they don’t care about anyonelse but them, and they are always arrogantly right (until proven wrong).
I hope you’ll be mortified and realise how dumb you were if something happens in Paris or Berlin.
I think republicans are the worst thing on earth:
I’m not sure that’s true. For that to be true they would actually have to live on Earth and not la-la land.