Posted on 10/01/2015 12:26:04 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Russia's Lavrov on Syria targets: 'If it looks like a terrorist, walks like a terrorist ...'
By Don Melvin and Susannah Cullinane, CNN
Updated 2:00 PM ET, Thu October 1, 2015 | Video Source: CNN
(CNN)Russia's airstrikes in Syria "do not go beyond ISIL (ISIS), al Nusra or other terrorist groups recognized by the United Nations Security Council or Russian law," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday.
Pushed to define "other terrorist groups," Lavrov said: "If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?"
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"Any person that runs is a VC anyone that stands still is a well disciplined VC" - Full Metal Jacket
Sure, it may look like a terrorist, but don’t they have to run their targeting proposals through JAG first?
/s
That’s what a true ROE should be like, not like the pussy-cat ROE that the USA has to risks the lives of our own troops.
I am a bit envious of Ivan’s ROE’s.
“If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it’s a terrorist, right?”
And the problem is - ? If we’d been allowed to handle the muzzie scourge like this for the last 15 years, the world might look much different now. ISIS might not even exist.
I agree with Lavrov.
I also agree that carpet bombing is the real way to fight a war and get your enemies to stop given the amount of collateral damage caused.
e.g Tokyo and Dresden WWII
The man was obviously raised on a duck farm...
... by parents with common sense.
If Russia is assured our planes are not in the area ISIS will bleed that very moment.
The people of the world have to be given a chance to determine on whose side they stand.
Do they stand with Jesus or with Allah.
I have long-term concerns about Russia, but the more Islamonazi Islamics Muslem murderer thug gangsters they can kill... the better for us, and the entire civilized world.
Vlad is a lot like Carl Spackler. Carl knew To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They’re like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that’s all she wrote.
I watched Lavrov’s press snooze on BBC
Agreed. Both Russia and China are long-term dangers to the United States. However, as you said, I'm glad they are doing what needs to be done to ensure we are both around for that encounter. Given the absence of decent leadership on our side, I'll cheer for Russia for the next fifteen months and two weeks.
RACIST!
That’s RACISTS!
What a bunch of RACISM!
What does Omuslim have to say!?
What about General Colon Pole!?
What about Matt Damon!? He went to Mars and was the only gay botanist there, you know?
Has anyone asked Marco Rubio how this affect geopolitical geopoliticisms!?
Watch out because “Russian law”, like “Soviet law” is anything it wants it to be at any time, and you, my friend can be labeled “an enemy of the state” at any time.
Russia has no Rules of Engagement. We saw that in Chechyna and Afghanistan.
What they are doing is to category, according to “Russian law”, any dissidents fighting against Assad, including the good guys (if there are any left).
Give a KGB guy a finger and he’ll take your whole arm off.
What he says is value-neutral in that what he means is, any strategic enemy of the client (Assad) is therefore to be defined as a terrorist. This may be good in some ways but bad in others, depends on how it is applied in future situations as more actors enter the stage.
At some point, for example, the IDF or NATO could be defined as terrorists. Or one step removed, forces directly supported by them could be so defined.
On the positive side, any realist by now must have realized that stability in Syria can probably only be provided by Assad so that the sooner all of his active enemies are neutralized, the better.
How this avoids escalating into something really dramatic is now pretty much in God’s hands because otherwise there is no adult supervision.
Unless someone promised them lots of good stuff to fight a war by proxy.
If the Russians end up killing all the US sponsored terrorists in the world, we might be able to legally send the US government money again.
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