American-backed surrogate Kurdish forces are now fighting Turkish-backed surrogate Syrian rebel forces supported by Turkish military contingents AND U.S. fighter jets- diverting attention away from the real military goal of recapturing Raqqa from ISIS.
In sum, the young Crown Prince has embarked on fundamental economic reforms at a time of low oil prices, may have initiated the breakup of the GCC, is fighting wars (or surrogate wars) in Syria and Yemen, is supporting oppression in Bahrain, and is instigating a potential armed conflict with Iran, which could eventually involve Iraq.
But both sides -- and their free-spending, unregulated surrogates -- cannot keep from fighting and refighting some version of the same battle between cool and square, tuned in and turned off that divided them in their youth.
She lives with Johnnie Mae Young (formerly the Great Mae Young), who was famous for fighting dirty, and their surrogate daughter, Diamond Lil, a former midget wrestler.
The angry us-against-them nature of our polarization suggests that the issues we're fighting over are just surrogates for a more primal conflict.
Damascus has been encouraging Lebanese resistance groups engaged in fighting the Israelis and their surrogate, the South Lebanon Army, in the south.
The first is the personality of Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled prime minister deposed by a coup in 2006 who is fighting this election through a surrogate party, Pheu Thai, headed by his photogenic youngest sister, Yingluck Shinawatra.
He said people were being pushed into drinking surrogates due to low incomes and said only fighting against poverty could improve the situation.
Not wanting to offend Mr. Nader or his supporters, those surrogates have been paying homage to his long record of fighting for a cleaner environment, consumer protection and labor rights.
So he's on his own, fighting those crazy generals in the Pentagon who see the missiles as a surrogate for their erectile disability.
