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I am fairly certain that the U.S. gained the moniker "Paper Tiger" immediately after the 1980 Tehran hostage crisis, and hasn't really been able to shake it since. Hey, I have an idea. How about Queen Hillary steps down from her pedestal, forgets about the presidency campaign ( which she probably [ hopefully ] won't win anyway ) resume her role as State Secretary ( or at least as Kerry's aide-de-camp ), and see if she can further muddle things up in the Middle East? Remember, if you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on March 30, 2015 at 4:19 AM
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Naut
You work hard at this. You cover it in such depth. I listen to all the news read not as much as you and my George do but you are bringing such good information to us here. Thank you.
posted by
Justi
on March 28, 2015 at 8:54 PM
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wonder if you have ever been to Yemen Naut. I have many years ago....I just had to go and see the place that my very Lady like straight laced Grandmother had written in her journal as the "Arse Hole of the Earth." I kinda agreed with her description when I was there.
posted by
Kabu
on March 27, 2015 at 3:15 PM
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I was listening to some of this on NPR this morning. It seemed confusing, and
contridicting regarding the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Yemon, and Iran. I need to follow it
more deeply and get a better understanding.
posted by
Vermont01
on March 27, 2015 at 5:51 AM
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P.S. (I know it's Shia, not Sushi)...
posted by
Pat_B
on March 27, 2015 at 5:23 AM
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I don't find this stuff amusing any more. We're fighting on one side
(with the Suni) in one territory, and on the other (with the Sushi) on the other. I'm no longer wasting my time trying to understand the Muslim v Muslim BS. I'm just wondering how the US actually managed to step in it to fight on both sides at once, for and against Iran? Or did the Daily Show get it wrong?
posted by
Pat_B
on March 27, 2015 at 5:22 AM
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Perhaps you should have been a politician Naut I am sure you understand, more of these sequences of events than most do .
posted by
C_C_T
on March 27, 2015 at 12:19 AM
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Nautikos
OMG....I don't know if it's my ADD or the headache I've had all day but my eyes are crossed and my head is spinning....luckily I watched Chris Wallace and a panel discuss all of this without quite so much detail earlier and was able to kind of follow what is going on in very, very broad terms. I know you can't because of the complexities, but I sure wish you could color-code all these groups or something because these names....gee-sh...I'm just not sophisticated enough in my language skills to be able to follow them all from one paragraph to the other so following them in the coming months....years?...is going to be absolute hell! Maybe you could categorize them...good guys, bad guys, medium, undecided...you know...
Of course, where exactly would we fit in that equation then with Obamarama and Kerry doing their damnedest to their march toward FUBAR land....heavy sigh...never mind, just tell me when to head for the cellar...
posted by
Krisles
on March 26, 2015 at 7:17 PM
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I agree that nobody in the Middle East takes the United States seriously anymore. I would also like to add that I feel that feeling is being echoed around the world.
Sadly, in America, most of us are so into social media, thus worrying about being "liked" and "retweeted" that they are not paying attention to the world around themselves.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 26, 2015 at 5:06 PM
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This does not help to lessen my concern over the fact that my other nephew is back at the Saudi Arabia oil field after coming home for the birth of his baby boy and spending six weeks with his wife and baby. Now he is back over there for six weeks in the middle of who knows what?
posted by
TAPS.
on March 26, 2015 at 5:01 PM
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