Syrian civil war

[Splitpin]

Great post Steel , i would love to add to it , but i dont think it would make it

[emfrat]

Yes, the old ones are still the best (Aren't we all? )

It seems clear that somebody used chemical weapons.
I'm just curious as to why no report I have seen/heard has made any mention of which nation could have supplied these weapons...

[kiwi]

It's horrible.
I used to teach a Syrian girl German. They came to Germany due to the civil war, and that is probably 2 years ago. So it is not a new phenomen.
Syria is, so would I say, just a secondary target, but it opens the door to Iran. The USA have been lurked to invade the Iran.

Germany has, until now, said it won't be invade Syria as well, but he have to wait 1,5 months to be sure. We've got elections in September, Merkel's just
saying what Germany wants to hear. I'm sure Germany will be in again, same as it's been with Afghanistan.

The U.N. has absolutely no power and I hope Obama is smart enough to keep his a#! outside of Syria, it's going to be Vietnam 2.0 Iraq 2.0 Afghanistan 2.0.

[towerguy]

YES - we should all turn our backs - not our area, not our fight, let them take care of their own problems .....


I seem to remember a certain conference in Czechoslovakia that came to a similar resolution once - back in about 1938ish?

(Adolf, Assad, Gaddafi, Bin Laden, enter required name here ..... ) - the man will see reason, won't do anything like mass destruction or genocide, besides, it's not our problem - YET.

So when does it become our problem? and who takes care of the problem when it does become one if we all turn away? If they start gassing kids on the Tube in London, or launch a Sarin attack in the terminal at Auckland? Won't happen way down here you say? Reality check folks - remember the Rainbow Warrior bombing? Are their lives less important, are their kids less important? Would we be happy if the UN or the USA or the UK said "oh, it's only NZ so not our problem"?

I agree it's a mess, and I do not profess to have the answer.
But I know that if I said "hey, not my problem..." I don't think I could ever in all conscience attend another ANZAC day ever again.

[Charl]

Well as alluded to above: just stop selling them the instruments of destruction for a minute, and you'd buy a breathing space.
Especially don't sell to blokes regarded as Bad.
Oh wait, that would wipe out the entire armaments industry... not going to happen.
Best to buy their goodwill with More Aid, and ask them to keep it all under a hat, rather.

Problem in Syria is no-one is sure who to back: there are half a dozen nutters claiming to be the True Leader, and none of them are particularly savoury.
Any of them would gas a few hundred innocents to make a point.

The Brits you may have noticed, do not have the stomach for this: for the first time since about 1066 they voted against a war.

It makes fascinating reading, the stakes are quite high in the region.
Israel is pivotal to the whole thing of course.
They hate Assad, but want to make darn sure his replacement is the right shape.
Then Lebanon can be contained, and after that, Iran.

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (emfrat @ Aug 30 2013,9:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes, the old ones are still the best (Aren't we all? )

It seems clear that somebody used chemical weapons.
I'm just curious as to why no report I have seen/heard has made any mention of which nation could have supplied these weapons...

Mike , Im no expert , but i wouldn't look much further than Saudi Arabia ..... just a thought.

[Ian Warren]

Strange again how so many forget and only in the recent years past how that country was a powder keg of activists and terrorist's and now! ...they are on the back foot its a cry for HELP .. sorry don't mesh with me .... to many follow mes ... five years down the history path the' be back to the sammo sammo .