70% of Americans are opposed to sending weapons to Syria

[woolfe9998]

His choice is bad because as you said both sides are bad.

There is nothing to be gain by backing either side. And if the side he picked to back comes out the loser what do you think the winning side will think of us?

Pokerguy originally said both options are bad - supporting the rebels or doing nothing. Then he said a great leader would do better.

Your point is that Obama is making the wrong choice. That is a different point.

I happen to agree we shouldn't arm the rebels BTW. I do, however, think that condemning government actions and supplying some humanitarian aid was appropriate.

 

[kage69]

And you have officially proven you are a complete piece of shit. Assad murders mothers and their babies and he's not a terrorist because the real terrorists are the ones who kill Christians. You show time and again how you only think Christians deserve rights and fuck everyone else. Seriously, you are the worst human being on these forums.

A suspicion of mine for awhile. Now if we could only get everyone to stop quoting and responding to the idiot.

 

[piasabird]

The president is a traitor and a terrorist.

 

[GrGr]

He would stay out of it.

Common sense alone dictates that you do not willingly and actively join a fight that is a 'no win' situation.

And loki8481 point about this being a potential slippery slope is valid.

Does anyone not realize that by Obama announcing aid to the rebels the other side (Iran, Russia etc.) will just step up their support for the Assad regime? What are we really trying to accomplishing here? What is our objective both short-term and long-term? Has this been thought out at all by this administration? I see no evidence it has.

Fern

Of course Obama/Pentagon et al know exactly what they are doing.

They know very well they are turning Syria into Afghanistan II.

Now you have to ask yourself why they are doing it. The US is taking a sledge hammer to every Muslim state they can and shatter them along tribal lines and push them into eternal conflict. Flaming every tribal conflict in Muslim nations, arming opponents to they can start grueling decades long wars, all of that is done on purpose with a strategic aim, the good old 'Divide and Conquer'.

One reason is that if Syria breaks Hezbollah weakens. Hezbollah has twice defeated Israel and repelled Israeli invasions of Lebanon.

With the new bunker buster bombs provided by the US and Syria in turmoil invasion number 3 is set up perfectly. This time a weakened Hezbollah would find it harder to resist a stronger Israel. Israel wants revenge and it wants the large aquifers in Lebanon and more land for Greater Israel.

Even if there is no new invasion it has been the US and Western ME strategy for decades, a century in fact, to not allow any Muslim nation to grow strong and independent and form alliances with equally strong neighbors. For that end the US has propped up any number of odious dictators and medieval kingdoms.

See the Sykes-Picot agreement for how the game is played.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes–Picot_Agreement

 

[sm625]

Doesnt matter if 99.9% oppose siding with al qaeda. The sheeple will do as they're told. You know, one of the craziest things I heard alex jones say over the past few years is that the US government actively works with/for al qaeda. But now its true. Its right there out in the open, so blatant. And yet these dumbed down brain dead zombies cannot / will not see it. We have a totally rogue government that has gone completely off the rails, its just gone, and no one will do anything about it.

 

[Jaskalas]

Of course Obama/Pentagon et al know exactly what they are doing.

They know very well they are turning Syria into Afghanistan II.

Did these "smart" men forget that along side Afghanistan is Pakistan? Who, despite tribalism, is a nuclear power. I think I'd rather see stable nuclear actors, not unstable ones.

Sowing chaos is a double edged sword.

 

[piasabird]

Women want to be in the Military, send them?

What is it with our government allowing more women to be in frontline military units? This could be a good way to get rid of all the women libbers. Send them all to combat. Give them what they ask for. Draft women!

 

[xj0hnx]

Women want to be in the Military, send them?

What is it with our government allowing more women to be in frontline military units? This could be a good way to get rid of all the women libbers. Send them all to combat. Give them what they ask for. Draft women!

I see you're covering left field.