I only follow the news half heatedly. But supplying to the weapons to

[Pat Vegas]

the Syrian rebels sounds like a great idea :rolleyes:

What could possibly go wrong?

[Classic Jorge]

Yes, it's a nonsense idea, and one I cant help feel is slightly influenced by Israel next door.

[Pat Vegas]

It's not like the US supplied to weapons to the say Afghanistan only to be used against them later on when fighting those deadly Taliban.

[Brentwood]

[Ashberto]

80s Afghanistan. Yugoslavia. Libya. Syria.

[Pat Vegas]

Oh I see what you mean.

[Ashberto]

[Pat Vegas]

He clearly is not going to push for some sort of military intervention after recent years.

Who's going to be the next president? is modd around he knows a lot about this.

Modd Rommn,ey

[Pat Vegas]

Have you tried unloading and reloading it.

:-(

[Snin]

if you are running a state and want to control the minions

[Classic Jorge]

With bumper rises of civilian deaths in each of the last five years.

Mission Accomplimished

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/bushmission2.jpg

[redgunamo]

But if they imagine it's better to at least have a fighting chance then why not.

It's rather like the thinking behind FFP.

[Pat Vegas]

next question.

Why are there still Taliban's around?

they should be TaliBANNED!

[redgunamo]

[Snin]

are mainly external terrorists perhasp ? better for us and them if Assad stays in power imo

[Classic Jorge]

Though I'm not sure "civilian" is a sufficient description, especially given that anybody of fighting age is now classified as an 'insurgent'.

It's not that they are actual insurgents, it just makes it much easier to justify killing somebody with a drone when it inevitably happens.

[Pat Vegas]

And lots of poppies.

[Ashberto]

12 years of smoking later...

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.thecleverest.com/bush_smoking.jpg

[Pat Vegas]

chucking down boxes of Marloboro red lit at one end.

[Pat Vegas]

He's hilarious.

[redgunamo]

to openly express certain opinions. Terrific.

It actually makes no real difference to us either way, in any case.

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

but were vandalised the moment he was toppled.

Ancient Serbian churches and monasteries in Kosovo survived centuries of Ottoman rule, and even occupation by the Nazis, but were destroyed within days of NATO/UCK takeover.

[Snin]

:hehe:

[PSRB]

[Pat Vegas]

and put the world in further mess.

[Classic Jorge]

You could make a fairly good argument to say that the world economy has been massively hindered by war, the beneficiaries are the ones with the biggest armies though.

Which is why the US, despite never being invaded, is constantly at war. See Chomsky's book on the US influence on the Pacific Rim.

[Pat Vegas]

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

However, I don't believe we're doing any worse at it than anyone else who's ever given it a go, and in many aspects, we do it alot better.

[Snin]

hes no worse than saudi, kuwait. bharain leaders etc..hes no hitler etc ..irans just had a good fair election with better turnout than us and more choices of people who could win! 6 agaisnt our 2..so think its best we leave these countries too it until they actually a re a directdanger to us imo..syria, iran, they've never attacked us and never would..but going agaisnt them means jihadi types blow up our buses..stay well out o it

[Classic Jorge]

I would disagree though, being a superpower is incredibly easy in comparison to being the poor f**kers at the wrong end of a metaphorical jackboot. You try being aone of those poor f**kers in a sweat shop working for 62p a day.

[redgunamo]

You should be very happy then; the world must be perfect by now surely, without all those dumb Limeys and Yanks in charge?

[Classic Jorge]

The biggest psychopath gets promoted, rather than the best manager.

[redgunamo]

Alot of people don't.

[redgunamo]

At least on the diplomatic side anyway.

[redgunamo]