No Reconstruction with Assad:

For the last 70 years and since the Assad Family took over power in Syria, the country has been managed as a private farm of the Family.  In spite of the appearance of the presence of the control institutions that make a State, such as a Central Bank and Cabinets, including the Ministries of Oil, Economy, etc., the real decision makers of the country have been the heads of the military and the security forces in a close relationship to the presidential balance.  In fact, the security sector is the only sector in the country that can be described as having functionally stability. This sector insures that all other sectors work in the service of the ruling family, i.e. Assad, his sibling and his cousins. Thus, any attempt to create an economic analysis or policy would be marginalized by the security forces, or worse, they will be hi-jacked to serve the security apparatus.   

During the last 8 years of revolution, things have not gotten better.  The functionality of State’s institutions, especially the Central Bank and the banking sector, witnessed major collapse to their already backward structure. Today, the Syrian regime, the Russian government that occupies Syria, and the Iranian regime, which is defending the regime with its Islamic revolutionary guard and his ultra-military militia, feel that they came out victorious from the war.  They are asking the world to pay them for the “Reconstruction of the Country.” A flagrant demand which the US ambassador Nikki Haley unveiled its ugly nature and rightly rejected any such request this weekend. Nikki Haley says that until ‘Iranian Influence’ is out of Syria and Russia steps up, the U.S. won’t help fund ‘Reconstruction.’ However, in spite of eight years of military oppression, the security and the military sector focus on the preserving the Assad family control of the resources of the country has not been diminished by the revolution.  The continuation of the regime, with or without the Russians, will mean all reconstruction funds will go into a black hole called Assad. Sooner or later, these funds will find their way to the Iranian and Lebanese terrorists.

Mohyeddin Kassar

Chicago 9/28/2018

Data sources: The world Bank Statistics 

A politically incorrect declaration

Follow America and the citizens of the 12 districts:

We took a chance on the black man and hired him eight years ago.  I know, the disappointment was big. He was nothing more than another “servant” of the capital.  

Today we are facing three choices:

The first is the woman. As much as I would love to vote for a women, voting for her means that we consider the capital is “functioning.” I am afraid that with her we are merely hiring another servant of the capital. The woman will be changing something.  But, we might be risking another disappointment like the one we had with the black one.

The second choice is to kick the bucket of manure so we can see what is hiding in the bottom of the bucket.  To do that, we can hire the impostor.  After all this is the American religion. One steps on people to get high and rich, and then one builds a library for them and does some charitable work.  The advantage with the impostor is that it will accelerate the discovery of the crises and unveil the real face of our “Capital.”  

The third choice is to push the envelope some more and take chances on the Jew.  His rhetoric tell us that he knows what he is talking about.  I doubt that the capital will let him live or let him cancel the annual “Hunger Games” as he is promising or to send food to the 12 districts.   But, what he is saying is that he will try. 

Personally, I am going with the Jew. At least he sees the crisis, even though he might not be able to fight it.

Munich Agreement

It is not the tanks of Hitler that caused the WWII. It is the "Munich Agreement" 1938. It told him that slaughter is rewarded.
Can some one explain it to Obama.
Three years ago, I said on NPR that: "in the next 50 years we will trace all our foreign policy troubles back  to Obama's Presidency."

Chicago and its managment

Is Chicago on foot steps of Detroit? Bankruptcy could be the final stop on the road. 

Who is the next president of the United States of America?

I am not sure how many presidential candidates in the race right now.  I have no time to research their stands on the issues or their policy. You are welcome to do it for me.   But I predict that the next president is the candidate who has the strongest ties to the “Security Industrial Complex.” 

If this becomes true, we will witness more intensive uses of drones, targeted killing, and precision strikes over all the world especially in Middle East, North Africa and some Central African countries.  Internally we will witness more degradation of the relationship between our population and the local/national police forces and more confrontation with the security forces.  

Are you Are you Coming to the tree

Are you
Are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man
They say who murdered three
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met
At mid
Night in the Hanging Tree

Are you
Are you
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Where a dead man called out
For his love to flee
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met
At mid
Night in the Hanging Tree

Are you
Are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run
So we'd both be free
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met
At mid
Night in the Hanging Tree

Are you
Are you
Coming to the tree
Wear a necklace of hope
Side by side with me
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met
At mid
Night in the Hanging Tree

Are you
Are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run
So we'd both be free
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met
At mid
Night in the Hanging Tree

Are you
Are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man
They say who murdered three
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met
At mid
Night in the Hanging Tree

Are you
Are you
Coming to the tree
Where a dead
Man called
Out for his love to flee
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met
At mid
Night in the Hanging Tree

McCain Challenges Gen Dempsey and Hagel on Syria|16-Sep-14

McCain | 16 Sep 2014

During a Senate hearing this morning on how to combat ISIS, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pressed Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff​ Gen. Martin Dempsey on how the U.S. would respond if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's air forces attacked U.S.-backed moderate Syrian forces.

See the interview