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"Where is the UN? Where is America?"

Now they want us?
Fuck off!

2/8/2012 7:13:01 PM

They don't have oil.

And they're not a threat to our only ally in the middle east.

We're not going to help them.

2/8/2012 7:22:23 PM

And they have been fighting a proxy war with us in Iraq. They are no friends of ours.

2/8/2012 7:29:06 PM

who is "they?"

2/8/2012 8:59:47 PM

How come all the sudden Obama gets in charge and the hawks turn into doves?

2/8/2012 9:10:13 PM

^^See the title.

2/8/2012 9:27:21 PM

My PS teacher said that they have oil agreements with Russia and China so we have no incentive not to let this go on.

2/8/2012 10:31:17 PM

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"Experts generally agree that Syria will become a net importer of petroleum by the end of the next decade... ...Syria is a relatively small oil producer, accounting for just 0.5 percent of the global production in 2010"

per wiki

2/8/2012 11:12:08 PM

^^find it peculiar your PS teacher would mention the oil agreements before the military agreements

2/8/2012 11:15:19 PM

Wait are we talking about helping the de facto monarch of Syria who's using the military to kill unarmed civilians?

Or helping the unarmed civilians being killed by their own nation's military?


Because one definitely sounds like a more defensible course of action than the other so I want to avoid confusion...

[Edited on February 9, 2012 at 11:45 AM. Reason : .]

2/9/2012 11:45:08 AM

Neither. The world can go find another superhero.

2/9/2012 1:43:01 PM

Or supervillain, depending on your perspective. The Middle East's political situation in general is largely a result of US and NATO intervention over the past half-century. If we weren't propping up dictator X, we were propping up his next door neighbor that helped him rise to power.

2/9/2012 1:56:09 PM

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"And they're not a threat to our only ally in the middle east."

Actually they are, but I guess after Libya, we've worn out Chinese and Russian patience for blowing up dictatorships friendly to them.

2/9/2012 5:09:53 PM

^^^lol then vote ron paul

2/9/2012 5:14:45 PM

Yeah, foreign military intervention in Syria would do more harm than good. Going after Assad's regime by force will result in something that looks a lot closer to post-Saddam Iraq than post-Gaddafi Libya. It's sad what's happening on the ground there, but there isn't much we can do to actually improve the situation, especially with Russia and China on Assad's side. Very complex situation with no clear solution right now.

2/9/2012 6:03:42 PM

1) if anybody knows where to sign up to go over there and help these people let me know. i'd gladly take an assault rifle and backpack off ammo and give up my life to take out as many syrian regulars as possible to protect these people

2) any of you guys feel the same? it's horrible watching these kids and innocents die.

3) my next car will 100% be electric and hopefully supplemented with solar panels from my own roof. my household refuses to be a part of this 'oil' situation that currently exists on the planet. i will no longer support the evil forces of this planet. we don't have enough time before we kill everything and ruin the earth completely. we have to do more. and then when we can't we have to do more.

fuck. just seeing the summary of what's going on over there is making me

[Edited on February 9, 2012 at 6:46 PM. Reason : ,]

2/9/2012 6:43:49 PM

2/9/2012 7:27:44 PM

The primary reason I want regime change in Syria is to give us more leverage against Iran.

2/9/2012 7:33:55 PM

^^thats the diff between you and i

i and several others here would go over there and fight to the death to help those people and you would hide in your closet tucked with your tail between your legs until an ambulance by chance came to save you

in fact most liberals are pretty much pussies when it comes to issues like this. they claim fairness and love and peace and gays and hippies and happy and love. but then they don't do shit when pedal hits the metal.


[Edited on February 9, 2012 at 9:40 PM. Reason : ,]

2/9/2012 9:38:39 PM

Actions speak louder than words
Talk is cheap
Put your money where your mouth is
In other words, pack yer shit and go.
KIT

2/10/2012 12:21:50 AM

Well I was mostly referring to you point #3. But that's cool that you're so insecure in your masculinity that you have to throw a temper tantrum like a small child.

2/10/2012 12:50:08 AM

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"And they're not a threat to our only ally in the middle east."

Although Syria has not itself publicly caused harm to Israel in recent years, they have been supplying weapons to Israel's enemies and there is good evidence that Syria was the puppet-master behind the Israel/Lebanon conflict a few summers back.

2/10/2012 9:02:02 AM

pack_bryan actually impressing the shit out of me in this thread

2/10/2012 12:48:14 PM

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"i and several others here would go over there and fight to the death to help those people"

Do you think they would do the same?

2/10/2012 12:55:07 PM

How can one even begin to generalize what "they", an entire nation of individuals, would do??

2/10/2012 1:37:39 PM

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"1) if anybody knows where to sign up to go over there and help these people let me know. i'd gladly take an assault rifle and backpack off ammo and give up my life to take out as many syrian regulars as possible to protect these people"

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"i and several others here would go over there and fight to the death to help those people and you would hide in your closet tucked with your tail between your legs until an ambulance by chance came to save you"

WTF is this shit? Are you serious?

If so, take the first flight to Syria. Why is that so hard to do, after what you said above? Once you get there, just speak to people on the streets, and I am sure within a few hours of landing, they will hook you up with a rifle/pistol so you can go shooting at Syrian soldiers.

2/10/2012 4:49:14 PM

^ No answer?

It is becoming a hell hole very quickly:

http://news.yahoo.com/us-officials-tie-terror-group-syrian-bombings-161846399.html

2/17/2012 6:34:25 AM

Some Western journalists were killed recently. Sad stuff going on. I wonder what the Assad regime will say about their deaths?

2/23/2012 1:11:36 AM

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"i and several others here would go over there and fight to the death to help those people and you would hide in your closet tucked with your tail between your legs until an ambulance by chance came to save you in fact most liberals are pretty much pussies when it comes to issues like this. they claim fairness and love and peace and gays and hippies and happy and love. but then they don't do shit when pedal hits the metal."

Why don't you go to Gaza as part of your tour over there. Things have been just like Homs for a years in Gaza. Same exact situation Help THOSE people.

2/23/2012 1:30:56 AM

2/24/2012 1:22:46 AM

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"How can one even begin to generalize what "they", an entire nation of individuals, would do??"

Oh holy fuck.

Everyone, just stand back and marvel at this comment for one second.

And consider

An unapologetic school of the almighty AGGREGATE DEMAND slave

is the one that asked the question.

2/24/2012 6:45:34 AM

god it's fucking exhausting watching you get keynesianism wrong over and over again

pick up an original source, read it, or forever shut the fuck up

it's not our jobs to drag you through an economics education. you want to talk about it and not be treated like you belong at the kid's table? then learn what you're talking about first.

it's fucking exhausting to argue against your desperate attempts at objection at every single stage of your misunderstanding.

2/24/2012 9:52:41 AM

ah syria...

evolution is happening at its finest. and the world is watching them rip genes right off the face of the earth

2/24/2012 10:30:10 AM