Man! Dude! Session #193

(M)an: Dude! The Foreign Policy dot COM report on the Reagan Administration’s purposefully 

mishandling of the conflicts between Iran and Iraq throughout the 1980s is very chilling!

(D)ude: Man! David Rothkopf clearly hadn’t read Monday’s article! His article yesterday in the online periodical you named just then, what was it?  

M: Dude! Foreign Policy dot COM, right?

D: Man! Yeah! Well, Rothkopf is very critical of President Obama’s handling the Syrian government’s actions against its own people. Rothkopf states that in 1999 President Clinton carried out Operation Allied Force to get the Yugoslavs out of Kosovo. But what Rothkopf fails to realize is that there are repercussions to the Arab Spring that came alongside President Obama’s Administration, particularly former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s leadership. Our heartstrings are intertwined with those who courageously stood their ground in the city streets then.

M: Dude! Have you read yesterday’s article by Shane Harris and Matthew M. Aid, about the Reagan Administration’s atrocity in dealing with the fighting nations of Iraq and Iran?

D: Man! Tune me in. I’ll remember. Did Reagan have a hand in the Middle East decline like Bush 41 and Bush 43?

M: Dude! The Reagan Administration deemed an Iranian victory against Iraq unacceptable as early as 1987, after the Defense Intelligence Agency had released a top-secret report entitled At The Gates of Basrah.

D: Man! So there was a conflict happening between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s and President Reagan and his Administration were handling matters all on their own, disregarding the Geneva Protocol of 1925 which banned the use of chemical weapons in warzones?

M: Dude! You have successfully recalled what I’d like to discuss! In November 1983, the CIA began to come undone with the possibility that Iranian forces could retrieve the shells of the chemicals used and find concrete evidence that Iraq had disobeyed the 1925 Geneva Protocol.

D: Man! President Reagan and his administration were unafraid to admit that they were on the side of the Iraqis. In fact, as cruel as it is, the fact is that the Reagan Administration was probably, I believe, wanting both Iranians and the Iraqis to annihilate each other while the United States GOP in the White House and Congress looked on with apathy and disdain.

M: Dude! David Rothkopf cites again and again the casualties of the civil war within Syria as being 100,000 dead thus far. But, I ask, what about the refugees? If we go into Syria, and Russia sees our action of getting involved as the go-ahead of launching attacks on the region and surrounding countries that thus far have opened their fledging borders to the displaced, we’re going to fulfill the dream of the negligent Congressional Republicans who are teeming even more venom towards humanitarian efforts at home to sincerely care about the Middle East!

D: Man! According to the New York Times today, Britain is awaiting the findings of the United Nations inspectors sent into Syria to investigate the use of chemical weaponry. But the Syrian government is trying to delay the exit of the inspectors by claiming the United Nations representatives take a look at plausibly three more instances of the utilization of chemical weapons within the region.

M: Dude! Russia doesn’t want to be held accountable to having to open its borders to the dislocated Syrian population of men, women, and children flooding into welcoming nations that are clearly startled and awaiting-action from the UN as to how to go about the handling of so many homeless.

D: Man! We need the United Nations right now and the United States knows its place with regards to the perils of the refugees. If we position ourselves against the Assad regime and go in with ammunition, havoc will ensue because the Congressional Republicans have been provoking White Supremacist rant and reasoning across the USA with their pseudo-religious pseudo-intellectual diatribes. We are drowning in unwanted Republican austerity and Republican sequestration.    

M: Dude! We need to be focused on the economy and job market here in the United States. We need to vote out the likes of Governor Chris Christie and Senator Mitch McConnell. New Jersey and Kentucky deserve better and brighter and brilliant leadership without the “it’s not right until it happens to me” rogues that want earlier elections so that they can have a greater chance of toppling their competitors at the polls.

D: Man! Christie and McConnell want government deregulations at the same time they approve of upping government restrictions on voting rights. And they want to do something about Middle East unrest? How about convincing their own party to not dwell in hatred and inaction and get a jobs bill passed?  

M: Dude! The GOP is rattling the economies of the world because they are, admit it, judging President Obama by the color of his skin, not the content of his character.

D: Man! I think the GOP is judging the diversification of our booming electorate by the color of their skin and not the content of their character.

M: Dude! Do you think that the Reagan Administration came in and tore apart what could have been a Muslim Renaissance?

D: Man! I think Margaret Thatcher came in and tore apart with Reagan what was already unfolding as a Muslim Renaissance at the time of President Carter.

M: Dude! Will the churches and mosques destroyed in the conflicts in the Middle East ever be resurrected? Could the wounded soldiers that are suffering PTSD combine their expertise and construct blueprints for a Judeo-Christian-Muslim architectural revival in the region?

D: Man! Can soldiers be ambassadors? And can Harvard-educated Aga Khan IV and other Islamic humanitarian cultural crossovers negotiate something alongside the disenfranchised Judeo-Christian-Muslim populations for the sake of much more than betterments and settlements?