Spoonman
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I just wish I was convinced that Assad and his regime are the bad guys and that the rebels are the good guys over there. That would make it much easier to know which side to take. What I fear is that neither side has even a tarnished halo and we're just going to break some stuff, kill some people, and leave Syria is the same miserable shape as we left Lybia.
and egypt, and iraq, and afghanistan.....
IDK, you keep reading the rebels have al queda ties. that can't be good.
Plus there are five themes running around the underground news network:
1. Assad used chemical weapons on the rebels.
2. The rebels used chemical weapons on their own people and blamed it on the Syrian military to generate sympathy and assistance from the west.
3. Neither side used chemical weapons but this is the ploy Obama is using to justify intervening in the conflict.
4. The USA conspired with the rebels to plant some Sarin gas and concocted the stories to justify attacking Assad's forces.
5. Both sides have used chemical weapons--there were tons of it delivered by Saddam Hussein who shipped it to Syria as the American forces were assembling. If that is the correct version, then what is the moral highground to deal with that?
So which of these versions is the correct one? Can any of us say which with any great confidence? More than one is correct? Or none are correct?
Shouldn't we know before we go in with guns blazing and bombs falling?
you want to know what is really sad? the lack of trust i have in our government, any of them are believable. and we can't continue to use our enlisted forces as pawns in whatever games are being played by these collective governments. what happened to the will of the people? whether it's our people, the people of syria, the people of timbuktu. i don't believe any government represents the will of the people anymore. the people don't want ot be slaughtering each other. the people are sick of playing this side against that.