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2011-06-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Gates Questions Assad Legitimacy after Syria 'Slaughter'
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Posted by Fred 2011-06-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Syria 

#1 I guess the slaughter in Syria has not yet risen to the level in Libya, before the Progressives decided to save lives with bombs.

I suppose we're seeing another picture of the value of oil. If only our lawn mowers could be solar- powered!
Posted by Bobby 2011-06-11 09:28||   2011-06-11 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 This seems slightly hypocritical to me.

Pencilneck's family has been killing Lebanese and subjugating them to the rule of Hezbollah for the last two decades but now that they've massacred _Syrians_ as well, they're illegitimate.

He isn't any more illegitimate than he was this time last year. The establishment just can't pretend to ignore it at the moment.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-06-11 12:23||   2011-06-11 12:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Pencilneck's family has been killing Lebanese and subjugating them to the rule of Hezbollah for the last two decades but now that they've massacred _Syrians_ as well

Ah, Thing, Assads been massacring Syrians since 1971.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-06-11 14:05||   2011-06-11 14:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Which only serves to perplex me even more.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-06-11 15:38||   2011-06-11 15:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I guess the slaughter in Syria has not yet risen to the level in Libya, before the Progressives decided to save lives with bombs.

The Syrians aren't threatening to flee en masse to Europe either.
Posted by Pappy 2011-06-11 20:52||   2011-06-11 20:52|| Front Page Top

#6 The Syrians aren't threatening to flee en masse to Europe either.

No, just to Turkey. Which is beginning to understand why the Europeans invaded Libya to keep those people home.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-06-11 21:37||   2011-06-11 21:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Which is beginning to understand why the Europeans invaded Libya to keep those people home.

And it's caught in a double-bind of its own making. Turkey won't get NATO support, and it can't intervene on its own.
Posted by Pappy 2011-06-11 22:56||   2011-06-11 22:56|| Front Page Top

#8 I was given to understand that Turkey's military _was_ capable, if they decided to use it.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-06-11 23:19||   2011-06-11 23:19|| Front Page Top

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