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TreasonousBastard

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16. Looks like Obama's trying to stay out, but there's a lot of...

Reply to freshwest (Reply #15)

Mon Aug 26, 2013, 03:26 AM

Aug 2013

pressure to "do something".

Sometimes it really sucks being a superpower. Damned if you do and damned if you don't-- it's not the best answer you're looking for but the least bad one.

After WWII, some British bigshot said to Truman something to the effect of, "It's all yours now. Thank God we don't have to run the world any more."

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Syria? You want to intervene? Specifically what would you do? [View all] Are_grits_groceries Aug 2013 OP

+1000 Recursion Aug 2013 #1

Same questions I have. "It is a mixed up hot mess." n/t RKP5637 Aug 2013 #2

du rec. xchrom Aug 2013 #3

I'd ... 99Forever Aug 2013 #4

how hard can this be: kill people to keep people from killing people. KG Aug 2013 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author mother earth Aug 2013 #6

Let's lay out the options and the players Benton D Struckcheon Aug 2013 #7

And Iran is in the mix. Are_grits_groceries Aug 2013 #10

Hezbollah is anti-Israeli. Will they get pulled in? This an End Timers' dream. freshwest Aug 2013 #14

Someone at the UN JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #8

For the repugs its, Bomb bomb bomb, bomb Iran bahrbearian Aug 2013 #9

If there were a way to help (in other world crises there have been),I would be for it. Unfortunately pampango Aug 2013 #11

Arm Al Qaeda to the teeth! It's the PRAGMATIC thing to do. kenny blankenship Aug 2013 #12

Nobody has any idea what to do in Syria... TreasonousBastard Aug 2013 #13

If there no answers at all, we should stay out. It'd be worse than Afghanistan. freshwest Aug 2013 #15

Looks like Obama's trying to stay out, but there's a lot of... TreasonousBastard Aug 2013 #16