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2013-04-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Russia warns on Syria chemical arms 'pretext for intervention'

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Posted by Fred 2013-04-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 now we're taking orders from Russia?

Posted by Mikey Hunt 2013-04-28 02:02|| 2013-04-28 02:02|| Front Page Top

#2 The price you pay for Chechen terrorist cooperation and in this case, silence. It is not for nothing the Russian invites you to his table with a smile.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-28 02:09|| 2013-04-28 02:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Guantanamo is still steaming away, no change there. Obama's word is a politicians word. As to doing anything in Syria, he won't. He wouldn't, he's just that kind of guy.

Besides, Syria essentially is Moslems killing Moslems, and they do it hard and fast to ...each other. So what ( precisely ) are you worried about? That the region will be "de-stabilized" ? Yeah?
WHERE in the garbage can do you want to sniff first? American Interests dictate? Yeah? You can have a big plate of garbage OR you can have a big steaming plate of garbage. Which one is in your best Interests?

Your best interests are dead Moslems. Poke it with a stick, ask yourself what Russia REALLY wants. There isn't going to be anything good come out of the Middle East. A really big war is only a matter of time and someone has to win it. Because you can't prevent it. WHY should the US "intervene" in Syria? Allow the killing to continue. Obama won't fight, he's just not the man. Until we do have a leader who thinks about a total erasure of the problem...and it won't be "peaceful"...let the Moslems go on shooting one another. Good for them.

Posted by Threater Flusoper9823 2013-04-28 07:47|| 2013-04-28 07:47|| Front Page Top

#4 TF, I think that Obama is "voting present" on Syria because he's an incompetent ass that wants to suck up to Putin. Remember it's "after the election" so he has more flexibility.

Regardless of his bufoonery and his underhanded, anti-american motives I am THRILLED to leave this crap alone. I just hope that the Euros don't stick their noses in it and the Israelis in effect seal the border and dodge the flying sh!t storm.

Posted by AlanC 2013-04-28 09:50|| 2013-04-28 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Stay out of Syria. Let them kill each other

Posted by Frank G 2013-04-28 10:47|| 2013-04-28 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 I agree, if you thought Afghanistan was Viet Nam Redux, then Syria is Viet Nam on steroids.

It is far worse than Iraq, even with the Iranians stirring the pot in Iraq. I still think the Iraqis would stop killing each other if Iran was not there agitating and instigating.

Iran is in Syria up to their neck, you have every conceivable type of Islamic extremist in the country AND they ALL every last one of them down to the two year old on his mom's back, HATE the US. They've been raised on 60 years of anti-American blather and propaganda, so how do you think they will respond to direct intervention?

I was for going into Iraq. That made geopolitical sense, split Iran and Syria, vast supplies of oil, a central location in the ME, a secular tradition, and a highly educated middle class. Everything except the liberal press, the Democrats in congress and Russia pointed to success in Iraq. Just like every other war since WWII, Congress won, foreign policy is a mess, and Iraq is in the toilet.

It would be the same scenario in Syria. The libs can't help themselves, no matter what the reason or the cause, their moral cowardice and nihilism would not allow a complete victory or a complete political solution to the problem before they inserted themselves into the policy and leave fatal loose ends to fatally flaw the end game.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-04-28 12:08|| 2013-04-28 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Stay out of Syria. Let them kill each other
I endorse this cold, heartless statement of the obvious.

Also: Got your none lethal shit right here. And your lethal shit right over there, alternate days please.

Posted by Shipman 2013-04-28 13:10|| 2013-04-28 13:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Syria is Viet Nam on steroids

More like the Spanish Civil War on a budget. All of the brutality, none of the latest war-tech.

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