?There were dead people, people burning and people running away, but where to? Where would they go? It is not safe anywhere. That is the fate of the Syrian people.?
War with Syria
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iannis
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To be fair on this point I would think that if some authority has officially allowed them into the country and the area (they're not just out there cow boying it up on their own) the authority that admitted them probably would confiscate everything except their pre-approved camera. I might be wrong about that but it seems like it would be a fairly obvious thing to do if you were going to take responsibility for them being there in the first place. Whoever is permitting them and at least nominally protecting them is looking for a propaganda piece, not accidental footage of "oopsie, we just gunned down some children. War is hell. You just have to lead them more".
Problem is that even if the allegation is true, I don't see how that is our problem.
fanaskin
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napalm isn't a WMD and America has used it so many times we'd be huge hypocrits to say others couldn't.
Yes, let's just bomb the shit out of a civilian population because that would get our feet wet.
Can I use you and your family for target practice to zero in my rifles?
fanaskin
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fanaskin
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that's really silly, first of all the south vietnamese accidently napalmed their own population and second america was complicent with it and used NAPALM and SARIN GAS during vietnam along with AGENT ORANGE.
that same government you expect to police the situation like humanitarians somehow is a complete and utter joke, I actually think honestly we aim to maim and destroy countries infrastructure to destabilize them, we will cause untold suffering in the name of "humanitarianism". and if you think i'm a nut for even entertaining that thought, go look up the targets of most of our "targetted missle strikes" in kosovo and iraq, we do things like bomb hospitals and medicine factories. We aren't the "good guys"
that's the most backwards line of thinking i can imagine. So because we made a mistake in the past, a humanitarian mistake, we should allow others to make the same mistake?
iannis
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It seems to me that agent orangeisa chemical weapon. All the fucked up second generation birth defects it caused and all the first generation cancer. It's not like they didn't know exposure would be harmful. The shit was designed specifically to be harmful.
It's a poor sort of law that no one is willing to enforce unless it's convenient. It's a worse sort of law that the relevant majority will actually obstruct the enforcement of.
It's a poor sort of law that no one is willing to enforce unless it's convenient. It's a worse sort of law that the relevant majority will actually obstruct the enforcement of.
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fanaskin
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I don't think "humanitarianism" has anything to do with what countries use its war machine for. I think using "humanitarianism" as a justification for war is dishonest. it's about protecting economic systems and killing the other guys infrastructure and people, even civilians to harm other nations ability to compete economically/politically.
Arbitrary
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Just spitballing here, but what if this drum up to stikes/war/etc is a bluff to be used later, after letting Syria descend into madness, for striking against Iran.
"See guys, we removed Qaddafi, Mubarak and Saddam, but you wouldn't let us remove Assad. Well, he turned the country into a meat grinder because we didn't help. Now, we face (XYZ reason) for striking Iran. Don't let what happened to Syria happen to Iran."
"See guys, we removed Qaddafi, Mubarak and Saddam, but you wouldn't let us remove Assad. Well, he turned the country into a meat grinder because we didn't help. Now, we face (XYZ reason) for striking Iran. Don't let what happened to Syria happen to Iran."
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