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Despite the organization being linked to Al-Qaeda and after having several pictures surface online of fighters grilling a decapitated human head, the United States pledged to give Syrian opposition forces $123 million in new defense aid – doubling the aid previously pledged by the Obama Administration. ...
Critics, however, are quick to point to a speech made earlier this month by Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, where he cautioned that due to financial governmental strains, the Obama administration may soon be forced to consider Department of Defense layoffs and pay cuts for military personnel. ...
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
reply to post by FlyersFan
He WANTS the military weakened. he stated before the '08 election that he didn't trust them, and wanted a "civilian security force. He also stated he would "stand with" the Muslims.
S&F.
Giving a hundred million to the free syrian people to help themselves fight the HumanSlayer ASSAD with their own blood and sacrifice is better than to do NOTHING at all, allow the situation to get even worse till a regional conflict erupts, and then the US military will HAVE TO step in, as that HumanSlayer ASSAD HAS and ADMITTED to possessing WMDs which can affect us all if it falls to the wrong hands.
Such intervention by US will cost billions, if not trillions and worse, will not even be appreciated by anyone for those who needed such intervention will say it was too late and those who loses will use the victim card and cry foul to the world.
At least right now, the Free Syrian People are ready and willing to fight by themselves and not asking for boots on ground. They only ask for help and, as the UN security is divided, thanks to Putin who had turned his eyes to the slaughters done by the HumanSlayer Assad, UN air support is not possible, unless Putin is forced to open his eyes to the tragedy happening in Syria for the past 2 years to now, and will continue on if the syrian people is not given better help to end the bloodshed once and for all.
Let us all keep our fingers crossed that the WMDs are not unleashed by the animal Assad or by the Jihadists, and that the Free Syrian People can topple the beast alone. If the Free Syrian People failed as they had no military support, or the WMDs are unleashed - even trillions of dollars CANNOT buy back precious human lives, as each human life is precious and means something special to another.......
The bin Laden family (Arabic: بن لادن, bin Lādin), also spelled bin Ladin, is a wealthy family intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family.
but Obama sends hundreds of millions of dollars over to the Syrian Rebels who are holding hands with Al Qaeda???
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
He WANTS the military weakened. he stated before the '08 election that he didn't trust them, and wanted a "civilian security force. He also stated he would "stand with" the Muslims.
S&F.
The only way to stop US military adventures* (AKA state-sponsored-terrorism) is to turn off the empire
Originally posted by mideast
The only way to stop US military adventures* (AKA state-sponsored-terrorism) is to turn off the empire
I doubt that all the elite families give up their chances so easily. They rather pull the ring and self-destruct to get more chance to get richer.
Originally posted by buster2010
So now the rebels are a terror group? And how many people will really get upset with this? Remember how they cheered when Romney said he would arm the rebels even after the ties with Al-Qaeda had been shown. We need to cut off everyone over there and bring our people home.
Originally posted by DarknStormy
How the hell can they openly admit that terrorists are operating in Syria yet send them all this money at the same time after everything the US have been through over the last decade or so? This should be an insult to every Westerner and all this proves is that when Assad was crying about terrorism in his country, he was 100% right. This is against international law and how the rest of the world can sit back and do nothing is beyond me. 80-90,000 dead and counting and all we can do is keep pumping up the terrorists while the likes of the UN sit quietly? Zero credibility and they should be dismantled as one of the biggest political failures in history.
Originally posted by buster2010
Seeing how the military has been acting lately I really don't trust them that much either.
Originally posted by buster2010
The rape and murders of innocent people over there has been inexcusable.
Originally posted by buster2010
What's wrong with him saying he stands with Muslims? Are you saying that almost two billion Muslims should be viewed as the enemy because of the actions of a few?
Through action taken by the General Assembly and the Security Council, Member States are not only creating and strengthening the legal foundations of the fight against terrorism but also taking practical measures of cooperation to restrict terrorists in their actions by denying them the financial means for their actions, denying them their freedom to move about to commit their acts and denying them the weapons to use in committing terrorist acts.
The International Convention for Suppression of Terrorist Financing requests all countries ratifying the convention to deny all financial possibilities to potential terrorists. Security Council resolution 1373 makes it mandatory for all states to eliminate the financing of terrorism, while resolution 1267 along with subsequent related resolutions freeze all the financial assets of Al Qaida and Taliban associates. Both those resolutions call for strict travel bans against potential terrorists.
Subsequent Security Council resolutions also place Al Qaida and Taliban members under a strict arms embargo. The recently concluded International Convention for the Suppression of Nuclear Terrorism aims to prevent potential terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons while resolution 1540 of the Security Council creates a mandatory set of measures for countries to implement in order to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
I am intrigued - perhaps you should make a thread on this? In fact as I understand it there were more rapes in New York, LA, Detroit, New Orleans and Chicago last night in America than have been committed by American Servicemen since the conflict in Afghanistan began.
As for "murder" same thing. There are crimes and Soldiers (Marines, Airmen and Sailors too) commit them sure. The military is a cross section and representation of American society. In fact having been involved in recruiting and retention at a very high level I know that the Army for one mirrors statistically (almost identically) the demographic make-up of our society as a whole.
Even if you count non-judicial charges and actions for all offenses (ranging from being late to work and other minor infractions) along with actual court martial offenses up to and including murder and rape the military "crime" rate is lower than that of American society.
This is shocking to me considering that this subset of people are highly armed, very well trained (to be aggressive) and usually under a great deal of family and professional stress along with their daily risk of life and limb. This combination of factors might tend to push these people (young men mostly) who are either close to or on the edge - right over it....
I would be interested to see what facts you have that indicate that US military personnel have a high (or even close to) incidence of violent crime charges than American society in general.
He has no problem attacking all gun owners for the actions of a few irresponsible ones…why does Islam get a pass in this regard?
Seems to me that if he believes the common theme in gun crime is guns and that the guns therefore need to be registered, monitored, regulated and controlled then the with the most common theme of terrorism being the “religion of peace” then perhaps we should register, monitor, regulate and control those who practice it?
You know if we could do something, anything – to save one life we must do it. I say limiting/restricting the immigration of men of fighting age from nations associated with radical Islamic fundamentalism it would go far to saving lives. At least they should be subjected to a very thorough background check – I mean who could be against background checks. If they have nothing to hide?
Originally posted by buster2010
We need to cut off everyone over there and bring our people home.
Originally posted by DarknStormy
This should be an insult to every Westerner and all this proves is that when Assad was crying about terrorism in his country, he was 100% right.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Well .. he was right and he was wrong. He is also a murdering thug.
So his 'terrorist' list should have included himself.
Assad ... the rebels ... both bad bad bad ...