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WCGreen

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27. Your right.

Reply to indie9197 (Reply #21)

Sun Aug 5, 2012, 05:08 AM

Aug 2012

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Obama signs order supporting Syria's rebels, reports say [View all] cali Aug 2012 OP

Oh, great. U.S. Intervention in another foreign mess. Zalatix Aug 2012 #1

bad. fucking bad. cali Aug 2012 #2

After a while you get to see the whole pattern repeating itself... indie9197 Aug 2012 #3

I still can't see how the far left thinks that the people of the Middle East UnrepentantLiberal Aug 2012 #4

you have a naive and child like understanding of the situation Douglas Carpenter Aug 2012 #7

Did someone take a poll of the people of Syria? UnrepentantLiberal Aug 2012 #11

no and that is the point. It is naive to imagine that Syrians are all of one mind. They are deeply Douglas Carpenter Aug 2012 #12

no reliable poll that is for sure and that is the point. It is no more true that the Syrian "people" Douglas Carpenter Aug 2012 #13

It appears that minority groups will be executed first by the "freedom fighters" indie9197 Aug 2012 #14

Liberals arguing that the U.S. should give weapons to Syrian rebels underestimate Assad's power Douglas Carpenter Aug 2012 #5

Look, for the last 50 years or so, we have supported the strongmen in the middle east... WCGreen Aug 2012 #6

What is so great about the 21st century? indie9197 Aug 2012 #8

There is more citizen participation than there was in the 20th century... WCGreen Aug 2012 #17

I think we are talking about different countries here indie9197 Aug 2012 #21

Your right. WCGreen Aug 2012 #27

the US has the people's best interests in mind? oh, please. HiPointDem Aug 2012 #9

Then why would we be supporting the rebels. WCGreen Aug 2012 #18

you can't be serious. first, who are the fucking 'rebels'? have you looked into it? HiPointDem Aug 2012 #22

So we should do nothing and let it all go to hell... WCGreen Aug 2012 #26

do nothing about *what*? there are people dying all over the world -- 6 million died in the wars HiPointDem Aug 2012 #28

One thing you forget about Africa is we have no staging ground to deploy troops from.... WCGreen Aug 2012 #30

do you think the Saudis who are by far the biggest supporters of the opposition have the best Douglas Carpenter Aug 2012 #10

Tell me that getting Assad and his cronies out of Damascus wouldn't be better for Israel WCGreen Aug 2012 #19

There is no reason to believe that Sunni dominated militias running the country would be better for Douglas Carpenter Aug 2012 #24

It's got to be better than it is now.... WCGreen Aug 2012 #25

Of course the CIA is being authorized to seek to depose Assad... and the explanation is simple LooseWilly Aug 2012 #15

+1. the best i can figure, all our official enemies are those who try to maintain some semblance HiPointDem Aug 2012 #16

Follow the money... LooseWilly Aug 2012 #23

Based on their track record the US will never run out of enemies indie9197 Aug 2012 #20

And, given the probability of blowback from this, the US will never run out of 9/11s. leveymg Aug 2012 #29

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