Posted on 04/21/2014 6:17:09 AM PDT by marshmallow
Assad is criticized for running a repressive regime. But look at the despicable people he was repressing.
It shows that our country can withstand the incompetence you describe for 8 years.
What is ironic is if he truly believed in what he was doing he would totally try to change things. Bring all US troops home, terminate our meddling over seas, cut taxes, concentrate on our country and its people.
BUt no. He didn’t even ring true to his own conviction. Cause he has none.
We open the paper on Good Friday, and hear that he’s delaying a decision on the Keystone Pipeline.
I mean, the man is a coward in every inch of his body.
In short, I would respect the man, maybe, if he was consistent and forthright. Instead he’s sneaky and dishonest.
Make know mistake. THe IRS stole the election for this guy.
We visited Syria when when we were there. I still use the damask tablecloths that I bought in the world's largest indoor market in Damascus. So I know all about the Syrians too. Have you been there? :o) I doubt it or you wouldn't have written such foolishness.
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As for the U.K., we've been there many, many times and we saw the Saudis (by their long white thobes) and therefore I know all about Arabs in London.
MAYBE you'll cease preaching about things you don't really know. I hope so.
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~Al-Qaeda: there is no “non-thuggish” way to deal with it because it is a thug of the first order. Shoot to kill. Send our SEAL teams. No mercy.~
Isn’t a “thuggish way” all about that? What not to like regarding our topic?
This makes no sense as I have been writing continuously on this thread...or didn't you notice?
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~Protect minorities: it isn’t our business. Really it isn’t. Those countries have their own governments and it is VERY, VERY presumptuous and arrogant of us to think that we have the right to superimpose our values on foreign governments.~
True, that is why Christians won’t survive without Assad and Putin. You may question their motives but they are the forces of good, not evil there. It is that simple.
If you had the ability to COMPREHEND what I have written you wouldn't have blustered on and on and on about the OBVIOUS. I never said that any of those governments were bad. But, trying to get through the wool in your brain is a Herculian task.
I was in Syria when HAFIZ Assad was president. Were YOU ever there? NO, of course not.
I lived in Saudi Arabia and traveled to all the middle east countries except Israel. We didn't want to risk an Israeli stamp on our passports NOT knowing what the Saudis would do.
Did YOU ever live in the middle east?
NO, of course not.
You bluster and blow about it as if YOU lived there. My husband and I lived in Ras Tanura for five years. We traveled THROUGHOUT Saudi Arabia and we visited the countries around there. We visited Egypt TWICE because it was so very wonderful
Christians left the middle east for a reason. I can't read their minds...though YOU may think you can. My guesses were based on my LIVING IN SAUDI ARABIA five years, not the guesses YOU have from NOT living beyond the boundaries of your own closed mind.
As for being under Putin, the folks in the middle east are NOT under Putin. The Saudis and middle easterners HATE communism and all it stood for, so even now, with the vestiges of communism still around Putin has NO say in what happens in the middle east.
By the way, my husband and I visited RUSSIA as well. Have you? I doubt it or you wouldn't be spouting off about Putin either.
I didn't condemn Putin or Russia either, but then, YOU just don't "get" it so it's kind of useless to try and talk to you about this.
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Fi iman illah OR Maa salaama.
That is Arabic. But you wouldn't know that either, let alone know what it means.
GOOGLE it. It will do you good to work that brain of yours beyond the blather-mode.
Interesting opinion, n-t-i.
True enough!
Please, don’t jump on me. I don’t even think we disagree too much.
BTW, I’ve been to Egypt, UAE, Turkey and Israel. My good freind’s wife is Syrian so I have some first hand idea on what is going on there.
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It's so nice to be able to sound off!
I count my blessings from our good Lord, EVERY single day of my life.
Human nature won't change. Abraham Lincoln said something to the effect of "We can modify human action to some extent but we can't change human nature."
Original sin + free will = Mostly good but sinful too much!
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I definitely won't jump because I didn't think jumping was allowed on FR!
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I've been to those places too.
NOW I'm going to travel to the places I haven't been to: my own country. I am SURE looking forward to it.
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