High_Gravity
Belligerent Drunk
I saw a statistic in the news today that startled me -- the claim that there have so far been 60,000 people killed in the civil war in Syria. I was surprised because Assad's father killed 10,000, mostly Palestinians, some decades ago and that was often used as an argument point that no one liked Palestinians, or huge death toll by Mideast dictators, etc.
The 60,000 figure appeared in an article about Obama backing off from a claim that neither side better use Assad's chemical weapons "or else." Apparently our military is not enthusiastic about this threat and now the back-off is "no boots on the ground."
I don't see the point in "helping" Syria at all and hope we don't get into yet another quagmire there. Syria is an Iranian client state and has attacked Israel many times; Israel bombed out the nuke factory they were building with North Korean help a few years ago. Syrians are our enemies and the more they go to pieces, the better for our national interest, IMO.
In addition, how has it ever helped anyone for us to go in there and shoot the place up? Anyone who supposes it "helped" Iraq to be turned into a blown-up mess of shattered stone with mass-murder bombs going off each and every day is just propagandizing. No place we "helped," like Afghanistan or Libya, is better off ---- they are all much worse off, and tens of thousands more are dead than would have died if we had stayed out.
I hope we stay completely out of Syria. Any opinions on that?
I'm pretty much with you, we just need to stay out of it.
Exactly as I said on day one. The United States started out supporting the same kind of terrorists that took over Libya and Egypt. Our idiot presidebt didn't even think about Russian support for Assad. obama's king of the world, why would he consider some other country. We should never have helped anyone. Assad would have put down the rebellion long ago and it would have been over by now.
Thats probably true but alot of these rebels are getting help, aid and weapons from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, the Gulf Arabs etc etc we are not the only player over there. The French and Brits are also in on this as well I think.