Your Ignorance is not as Good; Or, You Don't Know Fuck-All About Syria

[JackRiddler]

48. With all the respect due to your post: Fuck your CIA.

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Fuck your CIA colony, a.k.a. the State Department.

You argue for the authority of expertise. Wonderful.

But your sole choice of authority -- the United States government's spook departments -- is extremely telling.

The world is full of other authorities who know more about Syria than your CIA or your State Department.

Guess what? Most of them are not advocating a US campaign in Syria.

This may be related to the fact that most of them are not, like your CIA and State Department, working as the brainstem of the empire that just murdered hundreds of thousands of people in an aggressive war in Iraq, right next door to Syria. (And that launched this war of aggression using as its justification the ludicrously obvious yet curiously effective lies served up by said CIA and State Department.)

As you say, "guess what..."

The Middle Eastern area studies professor at the nearest university probably knows more about Syria than me, or you. Your ignorance, and the automatically tainted views of an analyst at the Empire's central desk, are almost surely not as good as that person's knowledge.

Guess what! That area studies professor, who may speak Arabic, who may even be an Arab with many years lived in the area, can also write articles! Amazing innit?

Maybe those are the articles I'm reading, alongside the ones from the CIA that you seem to prefer.

The people who teach the Middle Eastern departments at German universities and run the ME desk at the German Foreign Ministry also know more than me, or you. They are not hobbyists, like you. They have spent years, decades, acquiring specialized knowledge. Why is their authority not as good as that of your blood-stained CIA?

What about the Iranian scholar of Syria, and the Russian scholar of Syria, and the Chinese scholar of Syria? They probably don't agree with the CIA or the State Department. Are they biased somehow, compared to your murderous CIA? These three regimes are tyrannical, but there's one thing I can say about two of them with certainty: Iran and China haven't recently launched any wars of aggression against countries outside their borders.

Unlike your fucking murderous CIA. Experts, for sure, but in what?

By the way, here's an Asimov quote for you: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

He was wrong. It's clearly among the first.

You can flush your authoritarian shit where it belongs.