"The road to Iran passes through Syria."
- Benjamin Netanyahoo in Scheming with the Cabinet (unplublished).
"The tail wags the dog."
- Ms. Livni Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs overhead when at talking about US/Israeli relations.
WE'RE GOING TO WAR. [Syria]
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"The road to Iran passes through Syria."
- Benjamin Netanyahoo in Scheming with the Cabinet (unplublished).
"The tail wags the dog."
- Ms. Livni Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs overhead when at talking about US/Israeli relations.
I just want this Syria shit to end. I don't normally think about other countries' issues so much, but the sheer volume of innocent people being slaughtered over there is ridiculous. Almost every week I switch BBC News on and see footage of living rooms where families were gunned down on their sofas, villages wiped out, etc.
It really is some bad shit, I don't remember seeing as much horror as this during the Iraq conflict and such. From what I've seen women and children are being mercilessly put in confined rooms and all shot dead, there's no sense of honour whatsoever.
At this point I don't give a fuck who did what or why, I just want the conflict ended. But of course those things are vital to actually bringing it to an end so just ignore my politically ignorant ass.
Do you really want us to liberate them?
Close.
Actually, Iraq was given WMDs by the US due to the protracted war with Iran (and were later used against the Kurds during their uprising). Speculation is that Saddam had some of them disassembled and began his own research and production. He kept them relatively mobile to avoid UN inspections.
Within the first two weeks of the invasion of Iraq, news reports of the US saber rattling at Syria were posted and quickly pulled. It was believed that the remaining WMDs were moved to Syria just as when Saddam flew his air force into Iran during the Gulf War in 1991.
SecretSquirrel
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Saddam always had some WMD capability and tried to use it at different times.
During the Iran-Iraq war they would crank up the output of the laser rangefinders on their Soviet tanks and flash them across the battlefield at the waves of attacking Iranian soldiers, causing blindness.
During the Iran-Iraq war they would crank up the output of the laser rangefinders on their Soviet tanks and flash them across the battlefield at the waves of attacking Iranian soldiers, causing blindness.
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wow so surprised to learn -ss- is actually some neocon fraud...
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our foreign policy is truly theatre of the absurd at this point
we spend the entire past decade fighting islamic radicals allied with al qaeda
now we're sending weapons and military support to...islamic radicals allied with al qaeda
it's like they don't even give a fuck anymore, they don't even have to try to make this shit coherent because no one is paying attention. just point to someone and say, "that's the bad guy," and the media falls in line and pushes the story into the heads of braindead america.
combing through everyone's phone calls and emails must have made them realize just how fucking stupid the average person in this country is and emboldened them in their plans
we spend the entire past decade fighting islamic radicals allied with al qaeda
now we're sending weapons and military support to...islamic radicals allied with al qaeda
it's like they don't even give a fuck anymore, they don't even have to try to make this shit coherent because no one is paying attention. just point to someone and say, "that's the bad guy," and the media falls in line and pushes the story into the heads of braindead america.
combing through everyone's phone calls and emails must have made them realize just how fucking stupid the average person in this country is and emboldened them in their plans
maybe.
beyond that they also somehow forgot about the soviet war in Afghanistan.
how well did helping 'rebels' work out in the long run for us then.
the UN should be there giving aid. food, water, medical aid to innocents who are caught in the crossfire and just trying to stay alive. that is already the case.
that should be all that's being done.
beyond that they also somehow forgot about the soviet war in Afghanistan.
how well did helping 'rebels' work out in the long run for us then.
the UN should be there giving aid. food, water, medical aid to innocents who are caught in the crossfire and just trying to stay alive. that is already the case.
that should be all that's being done.
Yup, stupid decision if we aren't part of a multi national force, made up of mostly countries from that region w/ the US providing logistics/intel and drone work.
There was a time, long ago now, when it was our national policy not to interfere in the internal struggles of another nation. So far doing so has never ended well for us that I'm aware of.