Top US commander warns Russia, Syria

cnn.com ^ | August 21, 2016 | Barbara Starr

[Mr. M.J.B.]

Esau & Ishmael...Damascus...

23:59:59

[Mr. M.J.B.]

It’s one thing to read about sodomy in the military and quite another to see it.

They might as well just bend over and stick it in.

[Joe Boucher]

Ya see, i have this line in the sand i’ve drawn.

Ya see this battery?
I bet ya can’t knock it off my shoulder.

Crappola there senore’ pres.

[servantboy777]

huh? 23:59:59? Were you pointing to scripture?

[dfwgator]

[Organic Panic]

Better watch out. Obama might draw a red line and back it up this time.

[aces]

he thinks putie is hot

[aces]

he better watch it, putie is a first strike kind of guy, right here in the usa

[Georgia Girl 2]

The top commander’s last warning. “Just stop it you silly beotches!”

[mcshot]

Ya ruined my sammich. One shot two kills.

[Krosan]

The government there was legally elected and reelected

Syria has mock elections. In 2007 Assad supposedly got 99.82% of the votes with 95.86% turnout. If that is true, then who is rebelling?

[silverleaf]

Elected in 2007 and again in 2014
There is no,UN sanction calling for forceful re movement
The ones calling foul were US backed oposition- islamists and expats livung in London

I know - we wish syrian electins were just as free and fair as those in Iraq and Iran .... Places we consider leaders we support

[Krosan]

These were fake elections. One of the problems there in my humble opinion is that Assad really does not have the support of majority. His tribe - Alawites - are 10% of the population, but they rule everything. This creates a perverse incentive for the top class to make the Alawites so hated by the others that their loyalty is guaranteed - sort of like Roman Emperors did with their Praetorian Guard. Other problem is common for all the Arab countries. They have a huge amount of young men who have nothing to look forward in life as all the places of power are taken. It is even worse in Syria as for the 90% non-Alawite youths it is a degree higher impossibility to break through just because the parents they were born to.

The USA will get blamed anyway, but that population pyramid, combined with a 10% tribe ruling over the others means there will be trouble in Syria no matter what. It will explode. The easy measures are just kicking a can a bit ahead.

[Krosan]

Oh, and another thing. It doesn’t help that Bashar al-Assad has the charisma of a damp rag. He is an awkward looking giraffe with a stage presence worse than Jeb Bush. He was always a backup heir, and his brother could have had the presence to enact meaningful reforms, but that brother died.