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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1532 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
Well the U.S. is days away form sending some whoop ass to Syria in the form of cruise missles.
Is this the best course of action? If you where king for a day what would you suggest? Personally I think is is rather...kind of weird. Sort of like, well Junior you broke the rules so your going to have to stand for a whooping. But before I whoop your ass I need to discuss it with your momma. So stand by until we decide exactly what your punishment will be. Edited by 1.61803, : No reason given."You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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AdminNosy Administrator Posts: 4754 From: Vancouver, BC, Canada Joined: |
Thread copied here from the Syria syrisouly? thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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I think the Onion got it about right.
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yenmor Member (Idle past 3683 days) Posts: 145 Joined: |
If by some miracle I am made king of America tomorrow, I honestly have no idea how I would deal with the Syria situation.
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nwr Member Posts: 6412 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 4.5
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I'll say the same here as I have said elsewhere.
What's happening in Syria is going to turn out badly, no matter whether we intervene or not. If we don't intervene, we will get some of the blame for it turning out badly. If we do intervene, we will get even more of the blame for it turning out badly. So let's not intervene.Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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Dogmafood Member (Idle past 376 days) Posts: 1815 From: Ontario Canada Joined: |
If by some miracle I am made king of America tomorrow, I honestly have no idea how I would deal with the Syria situation. Should we thank God that there is no such thing as miracles? I say we bomb China, Russia and Iran until Assad surrenders. Take the war profits and send in a massive relief effort. Or if there is no stomach for that then just drone him in the forehead.
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yenmor Member (Idle past 3683 days) Posts: 145 Joined: |
Who do you think will win if a non-nuclear war breaks out between USA and Russia&China?
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Tangle Member Posts: 9512 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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yenmor writes: Who do you think will win if a non-nuclear war breaks out between USA and Russia&China? Cockroaches.Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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yenmor writes:
Nobody would win. All three of those nations are good at bullying little nations but they are not capable of fighting each other to a decision. Who do you think will win if a non-nuclear war breaks out between USA and Russia&China? The biggest losers are always the little nations that get to host the fighting.
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Rahvin Member Posts: 4045 Joined: Member Rating: 7.6
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Who do you think will win if a non-nuclear war breaks out between USA and Russia&China? It's hard to even conceive of a reason for China and the US to actually go to war with each other. Their economies are so intertwined that an actual war would be near-suicide for both, regardless of who wins the military contest itself. Hell, the economic consequences might actually force any such war to sputter out and die before one side could actually force the other to officially surrender - it's hard to keep prosecuting a war when your war machine can't afford gas or bullets.The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. - Francis Bacon "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus "...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds of variously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." - Barash, David 1995... "Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord Of the Rings
Nihil supernum
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gene90 Member (Idle past 3851 days) Posts: 1610 Joined: |
There won't be a war between the US and Russia or the US and China. Neither side has anything to gain.
As for bombing Syria, this is traditionally how the US has dealt with issues like this. Bill Clinton used to bomb Iraq every time it looked like Saddam might have been thinking about building chemical weapons. Reagan did much the same thing to Libya. So after all those Monica missiles, and finally regime change in Iraq, somebody else actually used chemical weapons on his own population. In the 1990s, this would not have triggered much of a debate as far as whether the US should respond. It appears that international norms have changed since then. Chemical weapons may be acceptable now. We'll have to see. Edited by gene90, : No reason given.
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I think the Onion got it about right. Okay, then wouldn't their "play small-ball" be the best option?
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jar Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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I think the best course for the US would be to deplore the situation, present any evidence they do have publicly and point out that Syrians must solve Syria's political problems.
Any other actions that the US takes should be undeclared, unacknowledged and based on plausible deniability.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped! |
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1532 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
So yes it seems drawing a line in the sand that the U.S. will not waver on means we must respond with a few cruise missiles.
It would be nice for a bit of international support in this effort other than rhetoric. Come you Brits! grow some bollocks. The US needs to save face on this one by not appearing to be the only ignorant hawkish brutish country willing to kill in the name of non violence. At the very least let us paint a Union Jack or St. George cross on one or two of them missles. Gassing civillians is bad M-kay? "You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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gene90 Member (Idle past 3851 days) Posts: 1610 Joined: |
quote: Do you deny the logic of using violence to suppress violence? The police do that every day.
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