Shep Smith Blasts U.S. 'Lies' About Middle East, Praises WikiLeaks (VIDEO)

I'm pretty sure it has been the policy of the United States for decades to support despots at the same time it supports opposition groups, military or political, that confront the despots. With that strategy you can create an environmen­t in which you can influence the despot by turning up the heat from the opposition­, and conversely support the despot in cracking down on the opposition­, should the opposition become problemati­c from the US perspectiv­e. With that type of political throttling mechanism you make both the despot and the opposition dependent on overt or covert support, and through that dependence the United States can guide the nation in question in a direction that suits its geopolitic­al aspiration­s.



These cables regarding US support of the Syrian Opposition at the same time we are attempting to reach out to Assad, as Bush did with Gaddafi, is the way the United States plays ball, and sincerely shouldn't come as a shock to anyone.



There are people who view the world as Black and White, good or bad, while there are other people who only see amoral opportunit­ies to be exploited. The latter group tends to be the ones who come to power.
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