“If the great powers of the world really wanted to, they could wipe out ISIS and Assad and stop almost every atrocity. It would require a resolve it hasn’t shown and serious, unfettered military action.”
Pure bullsh*t
You going to fight?
Who do you think would?
The world could have had real peace, if, after WWII, the US had been liberal with nukes for nations that stepped out of line. We could have announced that any country that tested a nuclear device would have been nuked by the US. That means Russia, or China. Heck, it should have meant the UK too. Only one country in the world should have nukes and the primary responsibility of that country should have been to make sure that no one else ever got nukes.
Secondarily, we could have nuked a country that invaded across an international border (Saddam in Kuwait). No boots on the ground. Not for the US. Never. But we could have nuked the people who needed nuking.
The continental US would have been untouchable. Our defense budget could have been very small. And the world could have had peace.
-—what happens in Syria to Syrians doesn’t affect the rest of the world in any tangible way.——
Tell that to the raped women of Europe. Syrian men came to Europe and are like kids in a candy store...... just look at all the women!
The solution has long been known but Obama prevented the accomplishment.
Refugee camps in liberated Syria are the answer agreed on by the coalition. They will be accomplished
Spot on.
This is a “Trump cares” moment.
Let us start with this. The attack, if it happened, was NOT Sarin. You don’t rush in in hours to “rescue” victims from Sarin. Ask anyone ex military. Any Vet who took NBC or Combat Chemical Casualty Course (this should be nearly EVERYBODY in the military) can tell you.
Doesn’t mean there was NO attack. But when it is so easy to tell “fake news” why do they persist in claiming this.
What is happening in South Sudan makes Syria look like a church social. Where is the outrage about that? Guess no videos of 10 year old girls being gang raped have made it out to the world.
The pipeline will not be denied.
Neocon ramblings ain’t gonna fly with much of the base these days no matter how many pics of dead babies they manage to dredge up.
“Because, although no one is willing to say it, the world doesn’t care.”
Wrong. Because the world know it’s Assad or Islamists. He’s bad and they’re worse.
It is not a matter of not caring (at least for me). It’s that all the alternatives are bad. Decent people in Syria can only hope to flee, for now, since supporting any side of this is folly. Choices:
1) Support “moderate” Islamist rebels (Al Qaeda) against Assad. Terrible. If Islamists win, there will first be wholesale slaughter of Christians and other religious minorities, then civil war rounds 2 through 50 of competing Islamist factions. The cruelest of them will prevail, with a regime that makes Assad’s look like paradise.
2) Support ISIS against moderate Islamists. See above.
3) Support Assad against the Islamists. Better, but horrible solution, that plays into extensions of regional power for Russia and Iran.
4) For the US or any outside entity to arm any side of this, and use military power (especially fecklessly) merely aggravates a bad situation. Good intentions don’t count if you are a civilian bystander killed by foreign versus domestic bombs. Enforcing peace upon the multiple sides of this conflict would require a major application of violence, with much collateral death and suffering, then years of policing by an occupying force. Perfect formula for perpetual guerilla war. Any takers?
5) Blockade Syria to prevent introduction of weapons and war material. In about 50 years, existing stockpiles would be exhausted. Except that blockading Syria is physically and politically impossible.
6) Assassinate Assad or otherwise replace Assad and his regime. Unfortunately, the consensus statesperson that all factions agree upon doesn’t exist. The only way the country has been held together at all is by centralized coercion. Anyone capable of that will be no better than Assad.
7) Cry over pictures of human suffering, and say someone should do something NOW. Talk tough in the UN. Write a strongly worded memo. Finally, solutions that will work...
“No one is willing to say it, but the world doesn’t care”
OK, lets deconstruct this globalist nonsense.
First: I don’t care, at all, who does what to whom over there, I’m happy to say it, and there are many more like me.
Second: There is no political, religious, military or moral entity called “the world”. The planet Earth is inhabited by incompatible and mutually hostile tribes and religions, who, without imposition of peace by the strong will constantly be committing atrocity after atrocity. Use of “the world” means what elite European and settler populations want to happen among lesser breeds without the law, but no longer desire to colonize and rule.
Where does that claim come from?
The UN has investigated 16 alleged chemical attacks.
12 sites had no evidence of chemical weapons use.
4 sites had evidence of sarin, but the UN could not determine which group had used sarin.
Now, I agree that very often the UN is not a reliable source.
But not one USA political leader or military leader or intelligence leader publicly challenged the UN conclusions before Trump attacked Syria.
It will keep happening because it is a 1000 year old ISLAMIC religious civil war.
This is not difficult to understand and there is NOTHING we can do to stop it.
Please read history. ISIS is not a new thing. This carnage is not a new thing. It’s extremely old and it is all there in the history.
For anyone that still thinks our sudden shift to Lindsey Graham foreign policy is a good idea, please watch this below.
I know you can’t learn everything from one documentary, but you can see a certain reality that is not in the press.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/inside-assads-syria/