negotiating table if i can say that in that region. as you know, the iranians and the americans have been in this headlock of each trying to get their way for many, many months, especially since the sanctions have started to really bite. now, according to the u.s. officials who have seen the satellite pictures that were released by the administration, there was some 19 highly accurate, pin-pick strikes according to u.s. officials and analysts who know how to read these things, on this very important saudi infrastructure. it has hit a very, very important and very public element of not just the saudi economy, oil, but also the u.s. economy, oil. and i have been talking to my sources who say that this is part of a strategy where they don t know who actually did this and nobody is saying who did it because the u.s. isn t saying it yet defunnitively, saudis have said nothing, europeans are not blaming iran at the moment. what is the strategy? according to my sources it is to show the unite
year, given what he s now tweeted about this big price to pay, does he have any recourse other than to take military action now even if it is just a pin pick strike? i think he s put himself in a very difficult position. and the major reason he did that is because he has no strategy in the middle east. we don t know what the objectives are and what he s trying to achieve. he says we ve taken care of isis, time to get out then we see a chemical strike. so, yes, i think is he pushed up against the wall to take significant a action, not just a pin pick. but as i think doug will probably point out, this creates its own set of problems. one takes this kind of credible threat, a forced triek to try to get people to a negotiating table to find a political settlement here because there is no military solution in syria. doug. well, there s certainly no military solution and syria has been putting people in boxes for some time now. donald trump with his great strike, but we can look at p
terms of conducting military operations. cnn makes an occasional appearance. into that city of kobani. but fox news the a favorite of isis with commentators who demand boots on the ground playing into isis dreams of a grand battle against americans. at the end of the day when kobani fall i would say by all accounts it s going to the united states will look absolutely foolish for doing some pin pick stripes that had no effect on the outcome. isis will come out more empowered than ever. isis will be the big winner and the united states will be the big loser. all of it is frighteningly effective. creating 21st century machine designed perfectly for the young and built to recruit followers from across the world. they were raised on twitter. they were raised on youtube. they were raised on facebook. isis is cnn to somebody s
vigilantes haven t gone home. they re laughing all the way to the bank. what you have out there is all kind of traitors who couldn t be more grateful to bernanke. everything is managed by the fed and these deficits, therefore, roll forward because bernanke is enabling congress to sit on its hands. he s enabling the second-term president who should lead in 2013, the first year of his new term, to tell the people you are going to pay new taxes, all of you. not just the 2%, to tell the affluent retirees we can t afford to keep paying you and tell the military industrial complex the pin pick of the sequester is nothing compared to the 100 or 200 billion that needs to be cut. i disagree with the idea that we are in the fifth, sixth and seventh year of the recovery and we are still stimulating the economy. we are still going the borrow 1.6 billion. obama will increase spending over the next ten years for