[donozark]

Virtually everything done in the ME is "illegal" to one faction or another. The deliberate targeting of non-combatants is not legal.

Then again, neither is the tanker load of oil that Chavez just off loaded in Syria. Although he says it is.

If need be, Brits will use SAS/Omani SF as they did in Libya. France will use the French Foreign Legion, many of whom come from ME countries. Plausible deniability and all that. "Sheep-dipped" if necessary.

Not saying I am in favor of such. Merely saying this is what could happen. Next 72 hours or so are critical...

[Zhang Fei]

Virtually everything done in the ME is "illegal" to one faction or another. The deliberate targeting of non-combatants is not legal.

It's hard to think of an instance where Sunnis have not targeted non-combatants, whereas the list of large-scale Sunni atrocities goes all the way back to Muhammad.