Was Donald Trump right to bomb Syria? |
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: April 11 2017 at 05:56 | ||
Weapons don't really have a "shelf-life", even obsolete, out-moded and antique weapons have the capacity to kill so just as current allies can be future enemies, current enemies can be past allies and past enemies can be future allies so every arms sale has the potential to bite the seller on the arse. As we consider replacing Trident I'm sure someone in the Pentagon is having second thoughts 'hey, didn't those guys burn down the White House in 1814...'. While the rebels have no means to make Sarin so if they deployed it they had to get it ready-made, Assad has the technology and all raw ingredients to make as much of it as he likes, and it doesn't take a genius to work out where all that came from - the only uncertainty is when. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day... Putin hands out fish, he doesn't teach people how to fish whereas the West doesn't sell fishing nets, it just sells string and a bumper book of knots...
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Pastmaster
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 23 2015 Location: Spiderwood Farm Status: Offline Points: 1774 |
Posted: April 12 2017 at 11:21 | ||
+3
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O666
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 20 2009 Location: TEHRAN-IRAN Status: Offline Points: 2619 |
Posted: April 13 2017 at 08:08 | ||
NO
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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20616 |
Posted: April 13 2017 at 09:22 | ||
Hello Omar, good to see you back. I wish it was about a better topic.
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Machinemessiah
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 02 2005 Location: Santiago, Chile Status: Offline Points: 594 |
Posted: April 29 2017 at 21:02 | ||
As for the reasons for Assad I remember having read this article in The Guardian stating that: it's been 6 years of war, Assad gains have been costly, his army is battle weary, he is struggling in some places, has used terror tactics before, bombed hospitals, etc. Trump himself said in campaign he didn't have a problem with Assad and would stay focused on America (so there would be no risk of intervention...). Also, by now, more evidence has mounted on the authorship of the chemical attack by Assad's regime. |
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