Posted on 04/06/2017 2:46:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Assad decides this is a great time for a chemical attack on his enemies and piss off the whole world against him while he is winning! The Russians damn well would not let him do this and without the Russians Assad is toast. It did not happen that way my friends. It did not happen that way.
I am no apologist for Assad as he is an evil tyrant. The whole damn Middle East is ruled by evil tyrants with the exception of Israel, Jordon, and Egypt and a few others. The later two are ruled by tyrants but they are not evil.
The first thing one must realize about democracy and Mohammedanism is they are mutually exclusive. They can not exist together. Thus we have tyrants most of which are evil, but some are not.
It really is that simple. My personal belief is that any that are not a stratigic threat to us should just be left alone and let them get on with killing each other. Do not accept their refugees as they will become a dagger at the heart of your nation.
Great a proxy war with Russia and Iran
I just don’t understand why Assad would authorize this ... when he’s winning.
This cannot please Putin.
I forgot to add that I lived and worked in the Middle East for a few years. I do know of which I speak. There are many many good people there and they are victims of their society, religion and government. I have compassion for them. They are not our problem unless they are a strategic threat to us.
They have been killing each other with great abandon for over 1400 years. They are not our problem.
I like the Bedouins. They had their own rules and society in the desert. Their rules were harsh, rigid, exact but fair. I hated their attitude towards women. Women were second class citizens with limited rights.
A true Bedouin of the desert, his word is his bond. It is good.
Yeah, and according to the media there never were any in Iraq.
I sometimes wonder what simpletons would be posting to me if my Freeper handle were something like NewYork_Freeper.
Probably a lot idiot NY remarks, no?
Yes. And ISIS will take power, Syrian women will lose their rights & be forced to wear hijabs & Syrian Christians will be slaughtered.
But you’ll get your precious war, won’t you?
NOT IN MY NAME.
WW3 for a false flag. Insanity.
Since your okay with people being gassed how about you lead by sticking your head in the oven?
Leon Uris’ The Haj was quite the read. In fact, it is my touchstone to islamos.
If the Syrian government collapses, the Christians will be ethnically cleansed from Syria. Of course, harm to Christians is what neocons like you want.
How ‘bout you help Angie clean up your own putrid backyard before dispensing useless advice.
You know Putin, The Defender of Christendom.
And I'd note; The Bull-in-the-china-closet, big-mouthed, reckless and uncouth, choice of the American people has yet to fly off the handle and do something rash and poorly thought out. Maybe that's a good thing!
There's several scenarios and groups that might have different agendas (our intelligence corps?) hoping he'll react as he's being played. Let's hope he's seeing this from the best interests of the American People point of view.
I assumed you were a German because I knew no American would find humor in the declaration of an unnecessary war where American service men and women will die once again for no good reason. Maybe if you want people to believe you really are an American you should reconsider using that little smiley face when you are rooting for your unnecessary wars.
Did you post that on your tablet while shaking your tambourine on the corner of Hollywood and Vine?
The number of people who have sufficient evidence to know who delivered these weapons, more generically, exactly how this happened, is vanishingly small, less than half a dozen.
A cluster of 100 or so deaths from a VX artillery shell could be produced by a single suicide actor opening the drain plug of a single liquid-filler warhead and letting the contents out. Who knows if this occurred in some village that had already been shelled by conventional explosive rounds. Who knows if a conventional-explosive attack disturbed a shell or pile or cluster of shells sitting in some random room somewhere? If Assads' forces dropped bombs on an area that was an ISIS or a Schmisis hideout or safe house that had a few of these shells, it is easily, easily plausible that the contents of a shell or two could have been released.
I'm not making a defense of Assad. I am saying if absolute idiots like John Kerry and John McCain can crawl out from the logs they live under and are all in 100% agreement over a clearly ambiguous situation, that's when my red flags are hoisted high.
:) That really pushed your button?
You only speak for yourself, and I am happy to agree I am not crazy. :)
OOPS!
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