What about the Kurds in Sheikh Maqsud?
Posted on 12/06/2016 11:29:57 AM PST by elhombrelibre
The leaflets fell from the sky over Aleppo, offering dire warnings. “If you don’t leave these areas quickly,” they admonished civilians, “you will be annihilated. Save yourselves.… Everyone has left you alone to face your doom.…”
As Syrian government forces continue to steamroll through eastern Aleppo, the rebel opposition’s last stronghold in this war-ravaged city, the leaflets aren’t just a warning for residents; they’re also an indication that President Bashar al-Assad is poised for victory. It was only a year ago that the rebels seemed on the verge of taking Aleppo, once Syria’s bustling commercial capital. But due to a massive Russian bombing campaign, the ophthalmologist turned strongman has held on to power—and reduced the city to rubble.
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Yes it is complicated. Assad helped hide Iraq's WMDs after all, so he is not a hero. He is just the better choice.
There is no way we could ever conduct a war like we did then. Every day by today’s standards would have been considered a war crime.
We had something similar happen in socialist Ethiopia. Once our enemies in the Cold War, we applaud them now for fighting off the Islamist threat from their neighbors.
I agree. I don’t think Putin cares about his own people. If he did he would not have bombed Chechnya to smithereens only to attract blow back on his Russian population.
The good thing is Russia is a failed state. It’s demographic problem is even worse than the one in Japan. Russia as a population is rapidly shrinking which will make them less relevant in the future.
Russia’s biggest threat is to the Ukraine, the Baltic States, and maybe even Poland.
I disagree. We do not ascribe to war crime courts. If you and your family are REALLY threatened you will throw napalm and nukes like crazy. Get out of this naivety as quickly as you can.
>>So, the devil you know? Or the devil you don’t?
Which devils Armed ISIS again?
Survey says...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Who+Armed+ISIS
So, do the rest of us have more in common with Orthodox Christian Russia — or the Wahhabi pedophiles who inherited Sister Khadija’s cult?
http://www.ditext.com/japan/napalm.html
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=fire+bombing+of+japanese+cities
From the photos it sure looks heard of.
Meanwhile, there's a compelling argument that Japan Surrendered because it was on the verge of being invaded... by the Soviets.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Japan+would+have+surrendered+Soviets+Manchuria
DWIGHT EISENHOWER
"...in [July] 1945... Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. ...the Secretary, upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent."During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude..."
- Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate For Change, pg. 380
Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech
Origins and Significance
So you don’t believe in the Christian Just War Theory or proportionate response. And, it appears, you believe in collective guilt. All the people in Aleppo are guilty and deserved to be bombed to death because some of them took up arms against the socialist dynastic terrorist who rules Syria with the support of Iran and Putin.
Was this written my Newsweek or another attribute author?
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