Man! Dude! Session #196

(D)ude: Man! This premeditated propaganda from all sides of the political dice against President Obama must not become a norm in periodicals and newscasts.

(M)an: Dude! President Obama’s the Commander in Chief and being marginalized into the same league of leadership as Bashar al-Assad. ABC News reported last night that there was a showdown winking game being played by President Obama and Bashar al-Assad, but I beg to differ on the basis of all the lives that are at stake in this international dilemma.

D: Man! Dilemma? I don’t see it. Instead, I see a clear stance to be taken and that is in favor of the lives of the over two million refugees fleeing from Syria into neighboring countries. I am afraid for the lives of the refugees. The United States Congressional Republicans better not even think about cutting aid to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt! They have generously opened their borders to the increasing masses of displaced Syrians, and there are estimates that almost 4.5, or one-third of Syrians have been driven out of their homes due to the civil war and half have required humanitarian aid.

M: Dude! Antonio Guterres is the United Nations high commissioner for refugees and has admitted that Syrian Civil War upheavals have placed enormous strain on the economies of the countries opening their borders and allowing the influx of refugees to enter and that these nations’ resources are depleting at an accelerated rate, just as the rate of displacement increases daily.  

D: Man! President Obama’s leadership has provided humanitarianism in the Arab world towards the Syrian refugees. But I am afraid that if the Republican Party and the conservative justices on the Supreme Court ever get hold of the United States Senate as well as the House of Representatives, then matters will get as chaotic as the 1947 mass migration of Muslims and Hindus that resulted from the Partition that Muhammad Ali Jinnah insisted upon even after attaining the knowledge of the obstacles in creating the Muslim nation of Pakistan. 

M: Dude! Jinnah was a secularist, but willingly carved Pakistan into an ideological state  despite the 

fact that diversity within the Muslim populations living in the region to become Pakistan was immense and not as pertinent an issue as Jinnah claimed it to be.

D: Man! There were over two million people who died then too! And to think that Jinnah indulged in a selfish fit over getting his way, like Bashar al-Assad. Jinnah died a year after the partitioning and Bashar al-Assad is using human shields as a ways and means to get the opposition to cease making advances into the region.

M: Dude! Remember how Husain Haqqani tells of the way that the leaders of the Muslim League and the founders of Pakistan took on a conservative tone, even renaming themselves with religious titles, despite being secularists otherwise.

D: Man! Jinnah’s tantrum cost lives then and Bashar al-Assad’s tantrum is costing lives nowadays! Why do people’s egos get in the way?

M: Dude! If Jinnah had accepted that he was wrong in his vision, then his opposition would have ridiculed him in the history books, but the tragedy is that he ought to be held accountable for the countless lives lost as a result of his own miscalculating hardheadedness.

D: Man! Bashar al-Assad is resorting to placing women and children on the front lines in order to discourage the United States and its allies from taking action. However, I still think of Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham as snakes in the grass like the other members of the United States Republican Party, especially those harboring a Tea Party mentality in particular make me worrisome.

M: Dude! ABC News’ Terry Moran, Jonathan Karl, and Deborah Roberts kept insisting the entire matter of intervention in Syria by a United States military strike was President Obama’s resolution. Clearly, they ought to have their awards rescinded, especially the Edward R. Morrow trophies, for having not been able to differentiate between proposals and resolutions! President Obama’s proposal, not resolution, is what it is right now. 

D: Man! The American Press is going after President Obama’s Noble Peace Prize, but it ought to, as you said, have its trophies confiscated for the misuse of terms and over generalizations. Deborah Roberts’ segment on Syrian-Americans was heartless and lacking cultural respect for those who had the courage to identify themselves and their turmoil over what it happening to their country of origin.

M: Dude! I saw the way Deborah Roberts seemed astonished that people could consider themselves a part of two distinct cultural identities. How tragic, especially since Deborah Roberts could have easily found articles online to help her understand her own presumptions.

D: Man! I think Deborah Roberts wanted to discredit the insights of the Syrian-Americans she spoke with because one of the gentlemen actually revealed something I agree with, that Bashar al-Assad is intellectually incapable of doing anything of his own volition and is, instead, taking orders from his paternal avuncular relations.

M: Dude! At this point in time, I think George Stephanopoulos certainly knows how to distinguish between proposals and resolutions over at ABC News. And, I believe, Diane Sawyer knows better not to get vacuumed into such as intellectual void that exists there.  

D: Man! Doesn’t the American Press have any recollection of the 1947 Partition between India and Pakistan? Don’t they know that even today, families of those who migrated to Pakistan from India or India from Pakistan are still looked upon as immigrants all these years later?

M: Dude! Congressional Republicans are insidious! If they ever reclaim their power, they will treat the Dreamers and immigrants from all countries with the same contempt and disregard as in Jinnah’s Pakistan!

D: Man! Midterm elections are coming up and we do not have a jobs bill or a halt to the Republican Sequestration from earlier this year! We have people and towns suffering as a result and such dire restrictions on voting rights that I can honestly say that the United States has voting privileges instead of democratic rights to cast a ballot in elections.

M: Dude! There is a wartime mentality hangover within the Republican GOP from the times of the Bush Dynasty. Defunding financial assistance to our Arab allies is a Republican strategy. Republicans financially back tragedies like Syria.

D: Man! Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers, like other supremacists with countless financial means, want to abandon the Arab world financially. It will result in what they desire most: A massive extinction of an entire people, like genocide, that fits the model of the heartless affordability economics of supremacy.

M: Dude! Allow us to vote, dear almighty one!