The Saudis make its relationship with the coalition very clear:
We learned this week from the Wall Street Journal that Mr. Obama made a deal with the Saudis. They will lend legitimacy for our attacks against ISIS and Al Qaeda in Syria (Jabhat al-Nusra). Then, the US will move against the Assad government in Syria. The neocon editors of The Economist are doing victory laps. Here is the “Obama Accomplished” photo from The Economist story:
Despite the new strategy, Obama is not sleeping well:
America sends troops to Africa, Cuba sends doctors and nurses:
Finally, in new analysis from the Pew Research Center, fewer Republicans believe in evolution today than did in 2009:
• 43% of those who identify with the Republican Party say they believe humans have evolved over time, plunging from 54% four years ago
• 48% say they believe “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time,” up from 39% percent in 2009.
How unbelievably stupid does one have to be to believe that evolution is a hoax? It’s only a guess, but it is probable that a poll would show a higher percentage of Americans believe in the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. Here are the data:
Never let facts get in the way of a good belief system.
Funny about evolution, which is one piece of the notion that the earth is old and the old life forms have come and gone. When Roebling was building the Brooklyn Bridge, he used his knowledge of fossils and of the age of the earth to make a controversial decision to let one of the two piers of the bridge rest on sand. He determined that the sand had been undisturbed for millennia (and of course, he could not dig any deeper with his caissons since the pressures were getting too high for the available technology.
This was just after our Civil War. Yet today, Republicans seem unable to rely on science any longer, even as the science is far more difficult to understand. We can clone cells, and talk on cell phones, yet challenge scientists when their conclusions are inconvenient.