Who Is IOZ?: Syria Is Not Syria

Friday, February 24, 2012

Syria Is Not Syria

The above clip shows a recent planning session during which Anne-Marie Slaughter, a professional drill instructor at Princeton, lays out her plan for no-kill zones in Syria. Interestingly, the first step in establishing no-kill zones is arming everyone to the teeth. Gentlemen, you can't kill in here! This is a no-kill zone!

61 comments:

Professor Coldheart said...: Establishing these zones would require nations like Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Jordan to arm the opposition soldiers with anti-tank, countersniper and portable antiaircraft weapons.

The "R2P" theory of intervention states that, so long as all the weapons have "anti-" or "counter-" in their name, they can only be used for good, never for evil. Anti-tank weapons. Counter-sniper rifles. Anti-personnel mines. This isn't an invasion, for dog's sake!; 10:28 AM
SeanLM said...: It's a double-counter-anti-invasion, so it's all good.; 10:37 AM
Paul Sherrard said...: IOZ, can you channel your anarcho-feminist persona again to explain how Prof. Slaughter's relationship to, say, a 12-year-old Lebanese boy is predicated on his raping her?; 10:42 AM
Anonymous said...: the syrian opposition should be armed w/slaughter's bureaucratic claptrap.; 10:45 AM
davidly said...: "...he will throw up his hands in genuine bewilderment and cry that he is never going to rape anyone! The theory is disproven."
That didn't take long.; 10:46 AM
IOZ said...: Lulz. But Davidly, can you explain to me how there can be racism when Barack Obama controls the world's most powerful military? QeleventyD!; 10:49 AM
Anonymous said...: In-fact, her uncle was WWF superstar Sgt. Slaughter. True Story.; 10:50 AM
fish said...: Can the name Ann Marie Slaughter be any more Dickensian?; 10:57 AM
Anonymous said...: IOZ, you're conflating racism with rapism.; 10:59 AM
Anonymous said...: holy shit. did that one dude just kill a scorpion with spit lol????; 11:02 AM
ts said...: There were no homoerotic undertones to that cartoon. None.; 11:07 AM
Montag said...: Simply arming the opposition ... could also allow Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to gain a foothold in Syria and perhaps gain access to chemical and biological weapons.

so classic.; 11:28 AM
Anonymous said...: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!; 11:33 AM
Sorry said...: Safe space!; 11:55 AM
Mr.Fundamental said...: a dick, man! and let me tell you something: I dig your work. playing one side against the other--in bed with everybody--fabulous stuff, man.; 11:56 AM
rob payne said...: Only America can stop the violence! That cartoon is what they serve up to kids? On the bright side it might keep them out of Princeton.; 11:56 AM
frantz fanonymous said...: Is Anne-Marie the only one who cares about the fucking rules? Mark it zero!; 12:03 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...: instead of trying to cram 10 gallons of shit into a 5 gallon bag, she wants to cram the 10 gallons into five 1 gallon bags! amazing!; 12:05 PM
davidly said...: Haa!

Thought experiment: What if everybody who went to Uni had gone to 'Nam and vice-versa?

And then what would the cartoons/op eds be like?; 12:05 PM
NutellaonToast said...: "America has a major stake in helping Syria’s neighbors stop the killing."

She's right. So how shall America stop the killing? Anne-Marie Slaughter has a way!; 12:29 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...: maybe it's just me, but not only would you have to be antidude, you'd also have to be antichick, no? since radfem prolly does not attack genitalia, but rather socially constructed categories. at any rate.; 12:29 PM
Anonymous said...: It's all part of your sick radfem thing.; 12:43 PM
Enron said...: Cobra Commander '12; 1:32 PM
rob payne said...: "And then what would the cartoons/op eds be like?"

Sgt. Slaughter PH.D.?; 2:18 PM
demize! said...: IOZ: exempt from male privlege!; 2:18 PM
Gridlock said...: Putin 2012!; 2:51 PM
anne said...: put in .. look back a post .. .,biscuits .. .; 3:03 PM
Anonymous said...: So Syria is a state and is doing what states do. The hipster anarchists are unsurprised and make fun of a professor (whose name incidentally makes fun of itself - so why bother?):

"She sets a state to catch a state! What could possibly go wrong!"

But isn't setting a ... to catch a ... a usual and reasonable approach? Not quite getting what you would like to have happen instead - those who care should pick up arms as individuals a la The War Against Franco Where Every One of Us Belongs?; 4:18 PM
Jack Crow said...: Why do most of the people selling public opinions about Syria and Iran know so little about Syria and Iran?

(This is not a trick question...); 4:33 PM
Enron said...: Q: Why are people selling a war against Syria but not against Saudi Arabia?; 4:41 PM
ts said...: Hillary on TV saying they can't help it if the Syrian rebels keep "finding" weapons. Cause the last time I went to the mall I went to the restroom and a half dozen Uzis just forgotten and left scattered around.

Least that's what I told the judge about why I shot that A&F sales guy for being a big douche.; 5:19 PM
Paul Sherrard said...: >>Lulz. But Davidly, can you explain to me how there can be racism when Barack Obama controls the world's most powerful military? QeleventyD!

So the statement "there might be male-female relations not predicated on rape" = the statement "misogyny does not exist"? Lulz indeed.; 5:58 PM
Dongo said...: help computer; 6:23 PM
Anonymous said...: "Lulz" from IOZ means you've made a good point he'd rather fob off than answer. Take it as an admission of error.; 11:22 PM
Anonymous said...: The first paragraph puts up a strawman argument against intervention, and doesn't bother to argue the strawman's merits but uses a rhetorical dodge to make an unrelated point.

Let's see how deep this goes:

The second paragraph just assumes intervention in some capacity is a given and presents a poor intervention plan in order to knock it down.

The third paragraph treats political plans, projections of domestic resistance and best-case logistic scenarios as the same thing. It ends with a normative judgment that would inevitably change even if it could be implemented, which is doubtful.

The fourth paragraph muses that countries like Qatar could arm soldiers with weapons only the US can supply, and rates the usage of Qatar and Turkey's special forces as the same effectiveness as Britain and France's special forces, which is lucky because even in a conditional statement the usage of the latter two is only "possible".

The fifth paragraph is two sentences: "foreign special forces could supply information to domestic opposition forces." "once domestic opposition forces use this information to defeat Syrian government soldiers, they can start defending territory." I don't think additional commentary is needed.

The sixth paragraph presents a plan to work up to a national cease-fire: if Syrian government communication is completely disrupted, so that field-level officers receive absolutely no communication from their superiors for an extended period of time, they will negotiate a local cease-fire, and a number of these will scale up to regional and finally a national cease-fire. Why a cease-fire can't be pursued without substantial foreign military involvement, and what horrors the civilian population will have to endure to guarantee radio silence for the government, are not mentioned.

The seventh paragraph uses a sentence with parallel clause construction that suggests "defensive force" is synonymous with "preventing government forces from doing what they want to do". Also, "international efforts would be curtailed as the Free Syrian Army grew in size; the Free Syrian Army would not engage in revenge attacks, because."

The eighth paragraph states that Bashar al-Assad has used several measures to prevent government troops from shooting civilians, and proposes a strategy to get government troops in a situation where they would have to confront civilians which would not stop the effectiveness of those measures.

The ninth paragraph uses normative language to describe what Turkey and the Arab League should do to aid the above proposals, without indicating why their assistance is necessary or why their assistance would be dispositive.

The tenth paragraph gives reasons for why Turkey is nervous about breaching Syrian sovereignty, and suggests that merely bombing Syria with drones would not be breaching Syrian sovereignty.

The eleventh paragraph suggests that a UN general assembly vote "condemning Mr. Assad's brutality" gives legal authority for "the countries in the region most directly affected by Mr. Assad's war on his own people" to invade Syria.

The twelfth and final paragraph claims that the preceding plan draws on the power of nonviolence.; 1:35 AM
J-Ho said...: Pork chop sandwiches! OH SHIT!; 3:22 AM
High Arka said...: Are no-kill zones similar to anti-red-light-running zones?; 6:01 AM
lucid said...: HA - prolly more like drug free school zones.; 11:26 AM
anne said...: another biscuit, .. of that group in the coffee house cafe , men,mostly straight, wom'n and woman ,,bi,lesbians , .. .and sweet anne , the men ,being of a fair trading coffee house mostly from south america and other places .. . ,; 11:46 AM
respjrat said...: hey, kids, did you happen to see a pink --uh, i wanna say vinyl purse around here somewhere?

just dying to get my cigarettes.; 5:04 PM
anne said...: half an hour later .. she comes back in to the room,.. oH .. ,respjrat, .. . of your purse ... i was painting it , the glow was hurting my eyes.. and mind, it isn't pink anymore , .. the cigarettes are still in there ,i don't smoke .. .; 5:37 PM
Anonymous said...: Don't Look Now, but here's another dude who very much wants us to check out his tumbler.; 6:56 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey, look, Leonard et al have been cordially invited to suck it.; 8:39 PM
Anonymous said...: Obviously armed insurrections, no-fly zones, and all the rest of that stuff isn't the way to help the Syrians. But couldn't we hold a benefit concert headlined by Cold Slither?; 8:41 AM
The Mathmos said...: Thanks anon @8:39

"Science has exposed the myth of race, but [...] folk conceptions of racial typology are kept alive in various sociopolitical forms... Race is not just a sociocultural construct; it is a technological and commercial artifact that persists today."

A good many parallels with the self-justifying feedback loop of Big Pharma and the DSM.; 1:03 PM
Anonymous said...: For those evne duller:

The Islamism of US's Pashtuns opponents is a red herring, as the targets of joint Sunni fundie* - USAF attacks from Serbia and Lybia to now Syria, can surely attest.

The Dull Sycophant; 2:28 PM
anne said...: of a cont. , of a query put to me by a 'arka ,.. ..your answer here ..in this comment on a post at cuneyt's anarchurious ,.. " there is something happening in this .. walk up flat.. building ..that i live in .. right now ,that i have been talking with rob payne about .. because it has so unnerved my very feminine but oh so very brave ways ,.. it is of a man from the darker side of how behaving ..in somalia , meaning that he was an abuser in many ways where he once was , ..now he has some very odd ideas about what it means to be the caretaker of a building here, .. "; 10:48 AM
anne said...: this was the query, from arka .. . "What we probably need around here is some lengthy thoughts from anne on what it means to be a woman in this modern world. . " .. . / not lengthy .. but more .. ,that is enough of a suggest for some the brighter minds that are around here .. .; 11:47 AM
Anonymous said...: If HA is a woman, why does she need to pose the question at all?; 2:40 PM
anne said...: if you had been following the.. at length .. of the conversing over many posts and comments .. you might already know .. of ' arka/ha, and myself .. . , it was not of a questioning in that way that you suggest .. .; 2:49 PM
Anonymous said...: What are you complaining about Anne Marie Slaughter? Assad is just enjoying the private consensual activity with another human being!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-24/rutgers-suicide-webcam/53234850/1; 3:35 PM
anne said...: i've had this .. , .. floating around .. over the last few hours ..not knowing where it may have fallen out ..,oH there it goes .. . , .. the brighter .. . ,11:forty seven .. .; 3:46 PM
Anonymous said...: How can one expect to keep all you sockpuppets' conversations clear?; 5:05 PM
demize! said...: "How can one expect to keep all you sockpuppets' conversations clear?" Anonymous said.; 5:13 PM
anne said...: yes de' .. that is funny, i laughed too .. that a nony would ask that .. /to the niemand , they only need to be clear to those involved ,and they are .. .; 5:39 PM
High Arka said...: @Anon 5:05: Irony fit for a Republican, that.

@demize: heehee.

@IOZ: bwuck-bwuck buh-kaah!

@anne: 47 bottles of beer on the wall? Or what?; 10:13 PM
anne said...: ,if they must fall.. . let them be near my mouth , and of le bilboquet mackroken.. .,or the sea; 10:38 AM
Anonymous said...: You dudes are feigning ignorance about the definition of a sockpuppet? OK then. Have at it.; 11:38 AM
anne said...: nobody,at 11:38, feigning ? dudes? , ...not a sock at hand ? , please help define .. ,said a girl in a room .. ,; 11:48 AM
online bookie said...: if there is any kind of prohibition should be respected and not doing what they please; 9:54 AM
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