HA HA! FUNNY!

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The esteemed Pepe Escobar pens a piece for Asia Times called "Will NATO liberate Jihadistan?":

Ah, if geopolitics was as simple as a Marvel Comics blockbuster.

Yep, that's the lede. Imagine Dave Barry learning to write like Dave Barry. Then imagine Dave Barry giving up in frustration and just submitting jottings in a random sequence. Like this:

Instead, The Caliph should know - even as he is largely a Made-in-the-West product, with substantial input from Gulf Cooperation Council petrodollar cash - that NATO never promised him a rose garden.

So, predictably, those ungrateful Obama and David Cameron, the British Prime Minister - oh yes, because the "special relationship" is all that matters in NATO, the others are mere extras - have vowed to go after him with a broad (well, not that broad) "coalition of the willing" with the usual GCC suspects plus Turkey and Jordan, bombing Iraqi Kurdistan, parts of Sunni Iraq and even Syria.

Yes, that's an actual copy-and-paste from the linked article. Yes, those two paragraphs appear together. Yes, the words and phrases within actually live together. Yes, this is one of the new saviors of left-journalism - funny like Ted Rall, erudite like Amy Alkon and as deep as, uhm, Ted Rall.

What the fuck is there not to like???