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The Missing Tweet: Syria & Gas
Apparently, on Twitter, if you reply to a tweet when you are reading from a list, your reply will get deleted if the original tweet you replied to is deleted by that user, even if your reply gets starred and/or retweeted. Gone.
The original tweet from someone else, I forget who, was about Syria. Something about, Oh, gee, another war in the Middle East, won't this be fun. Irony.
My reply was something like, The rebels probably gassed the people on the sly to get the US involved in their cause. Cynical.
I was looking forward to doing a screenshot of a tweet that only got one star for this blog. As a change-up.
It's not clear to me that intelligence agencies in the West can determine who is responsible for the gas attack. I don't care if we have satellite images of the missile launch taking place from Assad's palace, I don't care how many Syrian officials we have planted listening devices upon. Fanatic Islamists have their own high-placed agents in the Syrian government.
What is clear to me is that whoever launched the gas urgently desires the United States to attack Syria. Maybe Assad hopes a US attack upon his government will swing other Muslim nations behind him as allies. Maybe it is the rebels, operating according to "the ends justify the means" Islam, attacking the people to get the US on their side. Maybe it is Hezbollah, so that after the US attacks Syria, they have a good excuse to fire off thousands of missiles at Israel.
But everyone knows that gas is a "hot button" for the US, so whoever gassed the people in Syria wants the United States to attack. The Bad Guys want us to attack! So, please, President Obama, halt, stop.
Please Don't Do What The Bad Guys Want You To Do!
@hg47
The original tweet from someone else, I forget who, was about Syria. Something about, Oh, gee, another war in the Middle East, won't this be fun. Irony.
My reply was something like, The rebels probably gassed the people on the sly to get the US involved in their cause. Cynical.
I was looking forward to doing a screenshot of a tweet that only got one star for this blog. As a change-up.
It's not clear to me that intelligence agencies in the West can determine who is responsible for the gas attack. I don't care if we have satellite images of the missile launch taking place from Assad's palace, I don't care how many Syrian officials we have planted listening devices upon. Fanatic Islamists have their own high-placed agents in the Syrian government.
What is clear to me is that whoever launched the gas urgently desires the United States to attack Syria. Maybe Assad hopes a US attack upon his government will swing other Muslim nations behind him as allies. Maybe it is the rebels, operating according to "the ends justify the means" Islam, attacking the people to get the US on their side. Maybe it is Hezbollah, so that after the US attacks Syria, they have a good excuse to fire off thousands of missiles at Israel.
But everyone knows that gas is a "hot button" for the US, so whoever gassed the people in Syria wants the United States to attack. The Bad Guys want us to attack! So, please, President Obama, halt, stop.
Please Don't Do What The Bad Guys Want You To Do!
@hg47
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