A Whiter Shade of Pale in the refugee refusal playoffs: The GOP as an oily friend of Boko Haram

[MrWendel]

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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/19/1452132/-A-Whiter-Shade-of-Pale-in-the-refugee-refusal-playoffs-The-GOP-as-an-oily-friend-of-Boko-Haram

As kos has pointed out, the Syrian refugee “crisis” is a manufactured conflict of the most cynical type and the reality is that ISIL/Daesh may not be the primary “radical Islamist” enemy not unlike the ultimate failure to stop US domestic terrorism is by increasing domestic repression in order to leverage RW power.

In the case of GOP governors posturing about refusing refugees because they are potential terrorists, the real danger in numbers is more likely from white supremacists in each GOP state and a probable state-level reluctance to install state-level border controls. So far, the GOP has managed to forgive the French and its Frites in order to seek domestic political capital.

SELECTIVE OUTRAGE.

If North Dakota can finally choose a mascot “The Fighting Hawks” for one of its two major state universities, then US hawks should be able to reconcile their fetish for selective, cultural domination over the world. Since Charlie Hebdo, we now see the real problem of all those Hebdo(sic) people of color everywhere scaring already frightened US low information voters (LIVs or LoFos) in the discourse of GOP POTUS candidates to the tune of Lindsey Graham wanting 10,000 US ground troops in Syria.

As with all international entanglements, conflicts are about natural resources, whether or not renewable and it’s always about trading individuals’ blood for big oil. As 2016 approaches, posturing over military action under the umbrella of national security should not drive the policy memes.

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