Posted on 06/13/2013 3:37:49 PM PDT by edpc
In a sharp escalation of the U.S. role in Syria's bloody civil war, the White House announced late Thursday that it will provide military aid to rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad after confirming that his government used chemical weapons on the opposition.
Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes told reporters on a conference call that President Barack Obama had heard pleas from Syria's rebel Supreme Military Council (SMC) for more help. "Our aim is to be responsive," Rhodes said, underlining that the new assistance would have "direct military purposes."
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I saw that. It is estimated that 1.6 million refugees from Syria will be assimilated into other countries. Hey, these may be the same people that killed a young boy recently for what they considered a blasphemy of the Prophet. Good times....
Probably not aircraft, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see the S300 tested if we provide an air cap, unlikely. Our President hasn’t gotten beyond baseball caps. But the USSR, sorry Russians, may well see an opportunity for payback. Hizbollah is well entrenched in our hemisphere, in Mexico, and the US. You can find multiple Congressional reports if you really want to read through them. I’m sure they mean us no harm.
So, the regime has decided to go public on its decision to replace Iran’s cats-paw with rebels who are killing Christians.
Great.
The people slaughtered were pro-freedom/pro-west.
It was a clear choice to do nothing when hard-core terrorist supporting and funding anti-western civilization islamist radicals were the ones doing the slaughtering.
The political winds weren't blowing in an ugly direction against those muslims...
You nailed it.
"When the elephants struggle, the grass suffers" ~ African (Kenyan?) proverb.
...unexpectedly...
Sing it, Sister!
It will be merely millions only if the world is very lucky.
My over/under is at 2.5 billion.
Direct actions, losses due to collapse of infrastructure and trade (disease, famine, exposure) just might double that number.
But the “rebels” used chemical weapons first.
They used Chlorine gas.
There is little doubt that those Chem weps were the Iraqi WMD moved into Syria at the start of the war but there won’t be any calls to find out where Syria got those from because it destroys the RATS talking points....
The Repubs should be out forcefully vindicating Bush which will result in the Liberals deserting Obama.
yeah.
Imagine 100,000 muslim jihadis here on H-1B, L-1, refugee and expired student visas working in power plants, fertilizer factories, refineries, chemical manufacturers, hospitals, utilities, dams, pharmaceutical formulators, web hub server farms, municipal water supply facilities, sewage treatment plants, meat packing and food processing plants, driving HazMat trucks...
Remember when the Vietcong took over Huế? They were able to round up every government official, march them all off into the jungle and kill every last one of them in one single night.
They knew exactly where they lived, who they visited, where they shopped and where they ate dinner, and when.
How you ask?
The cabbies had been providing the Vietcong daily reports on their every move for years in advance.
Soooo, where do most of the cabbies in your berg come from? In Washington DC, it's Somalia...
Just because we've forgotten the lessons of Huế and the lessons of the Sepoy Rebellion's "The Perfect Day" doesn't mean our enemies have.
Wiki seems mute on The Perfect Day. That information used to be readily available there. Now it's barely mentioned.
They’ve chosen their side, so why wouldn’t they. Demonstrate the potential costs, not to suggest Putin could stand down The One. Not sure we had a role at the beginning, but we passed. At this point, it appears to be over. In Syria, and likely for Lebanon. While I don’t think an intervention is appropriate at this late date, if Barry is thinking about it, it needs to be substantial, we need to win.
Nahh. Saudi Arabia is in the way, we'd have to take them out to get to Yemen.
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*oh* nevermind...
Descent into madness
forget about the Somalis. For one thing, we're going to import 10,000 Syrians. Hizbollah will fill their quota of 5 to 10 percent with some really solid, peaceful good English speakers.
For another, who needs cabbies, the government has our phone calls, emails, charge receipts. You may pay cash, but that data will be far more efficient than the cabbies. Not discounting the risk, but were I in charge, I'd do the "perfect day" in France or the UK. Build momentum. Start here, it will be bloody, and they'll lose.
What makes you so certain that it won’t be the same day in every infested country?
Nothing, that would make sense. I suspect we could resist here, without government, so I’d aim at the Euros, but I don’t claim to understand the jihadist mindset. A strong unanswered blow here would be worth a decade of publicity, and engender fear, the intent, across the globe.
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