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Poll Question: Without congressional approval or a UN resolution?
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2017 at 05:56
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

The west are also crazy enough to supply them to future enemies, as was the case with Iraq, when they were at war with Iran. This is my problem. There are no cleans hands. There are no good guys, there are just 'interests' that each side wish to protect, and will do so regardless of the cost in human life or money.
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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Points: 1774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2017 at 11:21
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by aglasshouse aglasshouse wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

The UN is a joke and the congress would only have slowed him down. You could argue that the bombing was a waste of money and he shouldn't have done it at all (and I would be inclined to agree), but if he was going to do it, this was the right way.
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Points: 2619 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2017 at 08:08
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Points: 20609 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2017 at 09:22
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Points: 594 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2017 at 21:02
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:



Yes, war is always a money spinner, but the whole episode doesn't smell right to me. For a start Assad was getting the upper jhand in the conflict having recently taken Aleppo. Why risk a foreign intervention with a chemical attack, unless he was testing the new presidents reaction...


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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