U.S. Artillery Base INSIDE Syria. Conventional boots now on the ground.

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Thursday March 09, 2017 · 7:55 AM PST

2017/03/09 · 07:55

The Washington Post is reporting that U.S. Marines are establishing an artillery base inside Syria. These are conventional troops, as opposed to the 503 Special Ops personnel who have been there for some time.

In pursuit of the plan, the Pentagon said Wednesday that U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit have arrived in Syria to set up an artillery base, marking the first officially announced deployment of conventional U.S. troops in Syria.

The deployment is “fraught with risk,” said Robert Ford, who served as the Obama administration’s last ambassador to Syria until 2014. He is now with the Washington-based Middle East Institute and teaches at Yale University.

“That’s not a small policy change. It is a huge policy change,” he said. “We have never in our Syrian policy ever put U.S. personnel in between warring Syrian factions or to maintain a local cease-fire.”

I mostly lurk here these days. I am not a military expert, and can't add to the information presented in the article, but this is frightening me. We justifiably have our focus on Russiagate and Healthcare and Lies and Immigration and Travel Bans and Education and on and on and on…

This development in Syria doesn't seem to be getting much attention, so I'm posting it here to give it more visibility. Thank you for reading.

Please read the article here.

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Thursday March 02, 2017 · 11:18 AM PST

2017/03/02 · 11:18

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One immensely important question.

Thank you Senator Franken, for asking that question.

That is all.

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Saturday December 29, 2012 · 11:05 AM PST

2012/12/29 · 11:05

This front page post contains a video that is autoplaying: http://www.dailykos.com/...

Those of us using iPads and iPhones are unable to turn it off. Every time we load the front page we hear Sarah Silverman yelling at us. We have to scroll down (and now that the diary has scrolled well off the screen we have to keep scrolling for a while!) until we find the video and can stop it. We might have liked her before, but I for one am sick of hearing her voice blaring at me!

I have contacted the help desk but haven't yet received a response. Assuming they got some (well-deserved) time off for the holidays, I'm posting this diary in hopes the issue will come to somebody's attention more quickly.

The timing for this, with the fund drive and all, just stinks.

I hope this doesn't happen again.

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Thursday August 18, 2011 · 8:31 AM PDT

2011/08/18 · 08:31

anotherdemocrat has a challenge diary up right now.

As usual, it's not getting the attention it deserves.

Please go rec up that diary, and if you can spare some change, I'll match your donation up to $50.

Come on. This is an opportunity for you to do something good. anotherdemocrat doesn't get into the pie fights here, she goes out and does something active in her community. Let's give her some support, ok?

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Wednesday February 02, 2011 · 8:27 AM PST

2011/02/02 · 08:27

Please go to the NEW CHILD DIARY #37 now.

You are in the the 36th Child Diary of the Liveblog of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising and other uprisings spreading throughout the Mideast. We stand with our Egyptian friends and their courageous struggle for freedom.

DO NOT REC THIS DIARY! Rec the Mothership here.

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Tuesday February 01, 2011 · 1:41 PM PST

2011/02/01 · 13:41

Please go to the new Child Diary #32 now.

UPDATE 5:30PM EST: Shots fired in Alexandria. Hopefully warning shots fired into the air. (Update update: They were indeed fired into the air. The Egyptian military has been placed on high alert due to pro-Mubarak demonstrators on the scene.)
h/t to Scarce for this screengrab from Al Jazeera:
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Sunday January 30, 2011 · 9:01 AM PST

2011/01/30 · 09:01

Please go to the new child diary:
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You are in the the 15th Child Diary of the Liveblog of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising and other uprisings spreading throughout the Mideast. We stand with our Egyptian friends and their courageous struggle for freedom.

DO NOT REC THIS DIARY! Rec the Mothership #5 here.

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Friday January 28, 2011 · 11:29 AM PST

2011/01/28 · 11:29

You are in the fourth sub-diary of Mothership #2for Egypt and Middle East Protests.

DO NOT REC THIS DIARY! Rec the Mothership here. (The idea is to keep the Mothership visible on the rec list, with links therein to the child diaries where we can discuss the events. This prevents multiple liveblog diaries taking up slots on the rec list.)

The previous sub-diary (child diary #3) can be found here.

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Wednesday June 30, 2010 · 10:22 AM PDT

2010/06/30 · 10:22

Please go to the NEW liveblog ROV # 159
You are in the ~~current~~ newly obsolete BP disaster ROV, number 158. Number 157 is here.

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Sunday June 27, 2010 · 10:28 AM PDT

2010/06/27 · 10:28

The current ROV diary by our fabulous, internationally beloved gchaucer2 is HERE. You are in the no-longer-current BP disaster ROV, number 145. Number 144 is here

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