Well shit. There's no staying out of this one now. Iraq 2.0 here we come.
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Well shit. There's no staying out of this one now. Iraq 2.0 here we come.
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Afghanistan 3.0
Vietnam 95?
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What?
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Could be a chlorine acid bomb - that would burn out the lungs of those nearby and cause generalised breathing problems for anyone who breathed it in by scaring their lungs.
That would be within the abilities of the rebels - in any case the failure of the West to intervene has resulted in the Rebels becoming as bad as Assad, a point I made two years ago. We should have crushed Assad 18 months ago.
So - yay us - all moral in not escalating the conflict.
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They could have tried to cook Meth to fund the effort and messed up, creating mustard gas. Being honest, there are lots of 'low tech' technologies which are effective.
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Horrible.
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I'm sure we'll think of some way to excuse ourselves from our promise. Given that the origin is disputed, we could claim that we don't have enough information to actually go in.
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I'm not sure I want us to stay out.
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Has any of this stuff about a chemical attack been substantiated? Last I heard, it was a lot of "he anthraxed/she anthraxed."
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Probably a case of premature inoculation.
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Hmm could be that it was neither Assad or the FSA but Hizbullah instead, strategically for them it makes sense.
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Why? Do you feel it is the business of the West to get involved because we are the rich and moral West?
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I did say I'm not sure.
On the one hand: Assad's evil and noone else is/will, on the other hand: Iraq 2.0
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Those are very strange usages of 'objectivity' and 'subjectivity'.
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Let me take a stab at this.
From an outside point-of-view the facts that matter are cherry-picked and give a neat clean solution.
On the ground, history, bad-blood, rumor, innuendo and feelings change the facts that matter; the perception of the situation might be unrecognizable to an outside observer.
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I've heard and read comments (this is not my opinion) about this civil war in Syria that say something like this: "Thousands die = no freedom .. we sing few songs = freedom"
But I agree with you. If anyone interferes things might(and probably will) turn worse.
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the other way of thinking is
"the altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood," Daniel O'Connell (6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847)
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Great man though he was, Dan didn't succeed. DeV and Collins did.
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About time we stayed out of other countries. It only leads to our lads dying pointlessly.
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...and lasses now as well, let's not be sexist.
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We should totally intervene because I heard he has so much mustard gas that when we take it over we can use it to pay for the war itself. I love mustard, especially on hot dogs and biscuits, sign me up for 5 bottles.
Also we should do it for Israel, in gratitude for all the things they have done for us, like bagels and Natalie Portman.
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