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Kerry: Syria conflict the worst since World War II
CBS News ^ | January 30, 2016

Posted on 01/31/2016 11:06:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called the nearly five-year Syria conflict that has killed 250,000, wounded more than a million and displaced millions as an "unfolding humanitarian catastrophe unmatched since World War II."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arabspring; failure; hanoijohn; johnkerry; kerry; obama; secstate; syria; tehranjohn; traitor
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Leading from behind, red lines, and elections all have consequences.
1 posted on 01/31/2016 11:06:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why does “leading from behind” sound so repulsive? Or is it just me?


2 posted on 01/31/2016 11:11:18 AM PST by odawg
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He’s now equating 250K Syrians with 800K Rwandans. Racist. And quite a bit worse than 2:5


3 posted on 01/31/2016 11:12:07 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Guess Kerry forgot about Viet Nam... but then again we all know is memoirs of the era are a bit faulty

Cambodia ?
China Red guards any one ?

Korea ?

And many wars on Africa

Oh and the massacre of Jews in iseral... wait that one was but on hold by IDF


4 posted on 01/31/2016 11:12:59 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not really Johnie, you have created an invasion of Europe with your liberal friends that is and will be historical.
I’m not sure of the outcome but promise it will be catastrophic.


5 posted on 01/31/2016 11:15:00 AM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And you and Obama let us right into this mess


6 posted on 01/31/2016 11:15:49 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump then Cruz for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obama’s war!
7 posted on 01/31/2016 11:16:00 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: odawg

-The leader of the Puppeteers is known as the Hindmost. Since Pierson’s Puppeteers are foremost concerned with their own safety and the survival of their species, the most important Puppeteer is considered to be behind, or protected by, every other member of the species. It is a shortening from the more literal the one who leads from behind. A maddened, deposed Hindmost is responsible for Louis Wu’s return to the Ringworld in the book The Ringworld Engineers.-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson%27s_Puppeteers

The Hindmost was a vegetarian leader. He leads from behind because that was the most protected place in the herd. It’s repulsive because it is the opposite of what we call manly. Every time Obama or somebody in his Administration uses the term lead from behind, it reminds me of these heard creatures.


8 posted on 01/31/2016 11:16:02 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s still a civil war. We had one of those.


9 posted on 01/31/2016 11:17:03 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: odawg

Leading from behind is what a Marxist says he’s doing when in fact he’s doing everything possible to FUBAR a given situation. It also provides the Marxist press an official policy label for the FUBAR mess left in the Marxists wake.


10 posted on 01/31/2016 11:17:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Worse than Rwanda or Biafra. Guess African conflicts don’t count in Kerry’s eyes....Racist!


11 posted on 01/31/2016 11:18:01 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: stocksthatgoup

Send James Taylor to Damascus.


12 posted on 01/31/2016 11:21:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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If this were true then some of the “Syrian Refugees” would actually be Syrian then wouldn’t they?


13 posted on 01/31/2016 11:22:26 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It looks like Kerry is talking, but you can see George Soros’ lips moving.


14 posted on 01/31/2016 11:24:13 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Really, does anyone with verage or above intelligence give a smelly Obama what this cretin says?


15 posted on 01/31/2016 11:29:17 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wikipedia:

Korean War 1,200,000 1950–1953 Korea [30]
Vietnam War/Second Indochina War 800,000–3,800,000 1955–1975 Vietnam [40][41][42]
Biafra War 1,000,000 1967–1970 Nigeria  
Soviet war in Afghanistan 957,865–1,622,865 1979–1989 Afghanistan [34][35][36]
Iran–Iraq War/First Persian Gulf War 1,000,000 1980–1988 Middle East [32]
Second Congo War/Great War of Africa 2,500,000–5,400,000 1998–2003 Central Africa [23][24][25][26]

16 posted on 01/31/2016 11:40:10 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There are young, innocent girls in Cologne and throughout Europe who would say the West’s response to Syria’s civil war is the worst since World War II.


17 posted on 01/31/2016 11:41:18 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Leading from behind, red lines, and elections all have consequences.

Hard to see how we could have stopped the religious conflict in Syria. If we had helped turf Assad, we'd be seeing a flood of non-Sunni Arab refugees. Fewer dead Sunni Arabs, but lots of dead Shiites, Kurds, Druze, Christians and Alawites. Sunni Arabs have learned to claim moderation to advance their objectives. My sense is that they are moderately genocidal, not so much because Sunni Islam is always that way, but because Sunni Islam's current zeitgeist leans that way.

18 posted on 01/31/2016 11:44:58 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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There are young, innocent girls in Cologne and throughout Europe who would say the West’s response to Syria’s civil war is the worst since World War II.

The West has done peanuts in Syria, and that is the correct response to genocidal Sunni Arab rebels. It's the West's red carpet refugee policy that is at fault for the crime problem.

19 posted on 01/31/2016 11:47:47 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Bidimus1

Pol Pot.

The Communist plague in China and the USSR.


20 posted on 01/31/2016 11:55:03 AM PST by dhs12345
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