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In reply to the discussion: Will air assault against IS in Syria be used to effect regime change? [View all]Tierra_y_Libertad
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Will air assault against IS in Syria be used to effect regime change? [View all]
another_liberal
Sep 2014
OP
Thank goodness there's still some honest folks in this debate, unlike the online propagandists.
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2014
#21
personally I try to treat EVERY news source with a critical eye that looks for the holes
KurtNYC
Sep 2014
#24
TYT/Buzzfeed: "Russia's Online Troll Army Is Huge, Hilarious & Already Everywhere "
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2014
#26
We know "Russian Online Troll Army is huge"! Always popping up with their distractions..
Cha
Sep 2014
#35
"You are disrupting the flow of the conversation here with your off-topic........"
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2014
#47
But there's an "army of Putin trolls" who've swooped down on us from the Kremlin.
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2014
#46
We can stop all of this by arming working with Assad, Iran, Israel, SA, Turkey, et al., to help THEM
grahamhgreen
Sep 2014
#5
I have to agree. It seems to me ISIS may be the perfect thing to bring these disparate entities
grahamhgreen
Sep 2014
#9
Would the United States, Turkey, Israel or other Mid-East powers be willing . . .
another_liberal
Sep 2014
#8
the pretext would probably not be the air strikes but the presence of ISIS itself
KurtNYC
Sep 2014
#4
The government in Iraq wants to attack ISIS. In Syria the government did not attack ISIS
pampango
Sep 2014
#16
"ISIS has spent most of the past 18 months avoiding actually fighting the Syrian government,
pampango
Sep 2014
#53
All your links reference Syrian airstrikes on ISIS - oddly - in western Iraq, not in Syria.
pampango
Sep 2014
#58
Obama's speech will be one year to the day of his speech requesting authroization to bomb Assad.
morningfog
Sep 2014
#13
It would appear the Military/Industrial Complex guys got to the good General meantime . . .
another_liberal
Sep 2014
#49
The Only Way Assad's Forces Would Come Under Fire, Sir, Is If They Tried To Interfere
The Magistrate
Sep 2014
#55