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Syria air strikes: Reaction from small town America
BBC News ^ | 23 September 2014 | Anthony Zurcher

Posted on 09/23/2014 7:36:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

At the Main Event Bar and Grill in Yuma, Colorado, on Tuesday morning, locals took their usual tables to eat breakfast and talk, as country music played over the speakers.

The crowd was a mix of farmers, ranchers and retirees, many of whom have spent their whole lives in the tiny town (population 3,500) on the plains in the eastern part of the state.

While some of the bar's televisions showed sport highlights, several were tuned to Fox News, with talking heads analysing the previous night's air strikes against Islamic State (IS) forces in Syria.

"Either just let them wipe themselves out or drop a bomb on them and have it all over with," says a man in a Marine Corps hat upon entering the restaurant. "Just nuke 'em. Get it done."

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1 posted on 09/23/2014 7:36:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

bombing brown people usually polls well.


2 posted on 09/23/2014 7:41:51 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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3 posted on 09/23/2014 7:42:19 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: MinorityRepublican; Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

I flipped to a SouthPark rerun last night after 9pm when cable stations reported it, the Imagination-land Trilogy, Big battle.

In fact I am watching an Southpark episode now.,

Back in 1991 when Gulf War 1 started I was glued to it on TV, and it paid off. Saddam got his buck kicked and without cost or serious US casualties.

But after the 2003 Iraq invasion and all the claims of early success(which I really believed) followed by years of costly (lives and $$) occupation with civil war, I know not to buy early news reports,

Call me when something really happens.


4 posted on 09/23/2014 7:46:02 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: RC one

. . . and even more so when it’s well-deserved.


5 posted on 09/23/2014 7:46:29 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: smokingfrog

bump


6 posted on 09/23/2014 7:48:05 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

OMG. The Auntie Beeb found REAL AMERICA........only to degrade it. Natch.

Howz Operation Yewtree working out for you BBC?


7 posted on 09/23/2014 7:48:07 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: smokingfrog

Peace through superior firepower.


8 posted on 09/23/2014 7:49:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It was a clever move by Obama to build/force a coalition of Gulf Arab states to participate.

I just hope 35 years from now another President is staring at the same coalition sans U.S threatening Israel.


9 posted on 09/23/2014 8:04:07 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (Criticize, marginalize, demonize, criminalize.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I wish we'd see stuff like we did during the Viet Nam war - Napalm, B52 strikes, etc...

We're spending way more and accomplishing less.

10 posted on 09/23/2014 8:42:03 PM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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I just hope 35 years from now another President is staring at the same coalition sans U.S threatening Israel.

Sad to think that in 35 years another coalition will be necessary.

11 posted on 09/23/2014 9:24:47 PM PDT by onona (If I could compartmentalize; I'd be much better off)
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