Posted on 04/01/2012 4:43:17 PM PDT by tobyhill
A coalition of more than 70 partners, including the United States, pledged Sunday to send millions of dollars and communications equipment to Syria's opposition groups, signaling deeper involvement in the conflict amid a growing belief that diplomacy and sanctions alone cannot end the Damascus regime's repression.
The shift by the U.S. and its Western and Arab allies toward seeking to sway the military balance in Syria carries regional risks because the crisis there increasingly resembles a proxy conflict that could exacerbate sectarian tensions. The Syrian rebels are overmatched by heavily armed regime forces.
The summit meeting of the "Friends of the Syrian People" follows a year of failed diplomacy that seems close to running its course with a troubled peace plan led by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
Indeed, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other participants at the conference in Istanbul uniformly expressed concern that Annan's plan might backfire, speculating that Syrian President Bashar Assad would try to manipulate it to prolong his hold on power.
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I’m up for some aid if it increases the moslem on moslem slaughter.
When they get tired of killing each other with our supplied arms then they’ll just turn them on us.
just when i thought he couldnt get any wores.....HE DOES
just when i thought he couldnt get any worSE.....HE DOES
Yeah, kinda like F ghanistan. A couple of midnight beer runs by a certain Sgt. otta help fix things up.
No matter what you do for or to a muslim, at the end of the day, you are still the infidel and he will still hate you.
I don’t have any compassion for people who are taught to hate us and I sure wouldn’t send money or spill our blood for them just to help them out.
Glad you fixed that. For a moment there I thought you were referring to Moochelle's appearance at that kids show awards deelio.
Amen. Sometimes their 13th century mentality is a benefit.
You got it all wrong.
You can now expect an influx of Muslim refugees from Syria into the US while the Syrian Christians are being slaughtered.
Again, the US is backing the wrong horse.
I don’t know that there is a right horse in Syria. Just a lot of horses’ asses. Some are just bigger than others.
I’ll go with the ‘they are children of God and they deserve
humanitarian help’ argument.
Maybe they do deserve hell but its not my call, it’s for the
final judge of us all to direct each of us to either the fast elevator up or the slow down staircase toward the boiler room.
Close. But not quite.
Absolutely.
Please check my link in post 13.
There are a lot of horses’ asses all over the muslim world but some of them were not violently anti-Christian.
Saddam Hussein was one of them and Assad is another one.
They are no nice guys, but they are still better than what we replaced them with.
Besides, don’t ever expect nice guys to rule the Middle East — Islam can only be ruled by tyrants. Islam and democracy are anathema.
Right. And it concerns me a lot what you said.
I’m starting to like Obiwan’s plan more and more.
So, it seems we’re guaranteed that they’ll be worse.
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