Is Obama attacking ISIS to save religious minorities, or to save the new CIA base in Irbil?

You might have missed this tasty morsel at the Miami Herald a month ago. Apparently the CIA have been going all-out to complete a new super-base nearby Irbil in Kurdish Iraq, or "Kurdistan", if you will.

Enthusiasm for supporting our bumboy Maliki has been rapidly fading as his oilfields are coming under the control of the nascent Kurdish state. What better way to ensure the democratic future of those oilfields than by having a good sturdy presence in this new nation not quite yet recognized by anyone?

So it's not hard to see that the American oilygarchs who plot Washington's foreign policy would look askance at the marauding Islamists they have unleashed in the region. Yes, it seemed like a good idea at the time, to arm those anti-al Assad rebels to the teeth and turn them loose on the evil Bashar al Assad... who could have guessed that they'd thank us by running amok throughout the Middle East?

We are now forced to fight ISIS, who are using American weapons to fight the Kurds, who we need to rush more weapons and ammo to so they can fight back, and in the meantime we have rushed an emergency shipment of Hellfire missiles to Maliki, because while his star may be fading, he's still our boy... and let's not forget those rush shipments of weapons to the Holy Land as they fight for their very existence against a resistance that has moved beyond stone-throwing and perfected the art of building near-useless missiles out of plumbing supplies.

The worst of days for the Middle East...

The best of days for American weapon manufacturers!

Miami Herald shows its bias; we should bomb Iran

Here's a quote from a survey that the Herald has running aside an article about Vice Admiral Mark Fox of the US Navy:

Should Israel, the US and its allies hold off on any military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities to allow more time for sanctions to work?

As of a couple minutes ago the nuke-'em-now crowd was leading the nuke-'em-laters by 62% to 38%.

Here's what's interesting; there is no option other than nuke-'em. The only choice is between now and later. In light of yesterday's blog about Fox News uncovering bias in Russian media, I thought this made a great case-in-point.

The Herald is part of the McClatchy group, and probably would be considered part of the much-despised liberal mainstream by the boffins at Fox. This is revealing.

Mainstream media, the "liberal elite", have made an attack on Iran a forgone conclusion!

Elsewhere in the Miami Herald today you can read up on how the Miami-Dade school district is 1.7 billion dollars short on their infrastructure budget.

Hmmm... can't afford to keep the schools open, but by Jesus we can afford to make war on the towel-heads!