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Originally posted by GargIndia
reply to post by JuniorDisco
People are dying in Syria in hundreds every day from war. It helps little if one dies from a bullet or a gas.
I would welcome USA if it stops the war. That would mean making a significant commitment to Syria.
What is the benefit of 'bomb and run'? How does that help Syria?
Originally posted by phantomjack
Lets focus in on the subject of this thread -- for what reason would Assad use chemical weapons to begin with? Not a very smart move if the entire world is going to crash down on top of you.
So now we see most of the NATO nations backing down and just the USA wanting to go in. Hmmm......makes you wonder. So what is it that 90 countries see (or don't see) that Obama apparently sees?
Obama is seeing what he wants to see, so that he can kill Assad -- his plan from the beginning. Assad has been setup. PERIOD
Originally posted by LarryLove
reply to post by phantomjack
No you were not right by any stretch of the imagination. Crank theories, yes but right, no.
Originally posted by JuniorDisco
Originally posted by GargIndia
reply to post by JuniorDisco
People are dying in Syria in hundreds every day from war. It helps little if one dies from a bullet or a gas.
I would welcome USA if it stops the war. That would mean making a significant commitment to Syria.
What is the benefit of 'bomb and run'? How does that help Syria?
There's a definite difference between bullets and gas which is why the international community is supposed to act in cases where the latter is used. Obviously if you're dead you probably don't care, but chemical weapons are more likely to kill civilians and they have horrible side effects so one can see why they're undesirable.
I agree with your main thrust though. I'm not sure bombing Syria would help much.
Originally posted by MidnightTide
reply to post by phantomjack
The American people are the only ones who can stop it from happening.....and as you can see from many posts, that many simply do not care, or agree with it.
Originally posted by MidnightTide
reply to post by phantomjack
The American people are the only ones who can stop it from happening.....and as you can see from many posts, that many simply do not care, or agree with it.
Originally posted by mideast
Why do you think that Assad is not fool enough to use those weapons and open the ways to invasions ?
I think it is time for other American people to wake up too.
Was OBL fool enough to destroy two building to let the greatest army of the planet into Afghanistan ?
Was Saddam fool enough to let this happen to himself and to Iraq ?
Is Iran fool enough to make nuclear bombs and use it against the countries who have many many enhanced nuclear bombs ?
GargIndia
United States and allies have the ability to remove Syria's chemical arsenal by special forces action, without getting involved in the civil conflict.
Syria's chemical stockpile is estimated at 1000 ton, not a very large amount of ordnance.
If removing Assad's chemical stockpile is an objective, then Russia can effectively do that, if US does not want to use its forces.
JuniorDisco
GargIndia
United States and allies have the ability to remove Syria's chemical arsenal by special forces action, without getting involved in the civil conflict.
Syria's chemical stockpile is estimated at 1000 ton, not a very large amount of ordnance.
I'm struggling to imagine what you mean. You're saying that a special forces unit could remove the chemical weapons exactly and absolutely without a fight? That they could locate it (hard enough) and then remove all of it without killing anybody or inflaming international opinion?
I just can't see it.
If removing Assad's chemical stockpile is an objective, then Russia can effectively do that, if US does not want to use its forces.
Perhaps. But what would you do if (and more likely when) Assad simply claims not to have any?