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In reply to the discussion: So I asked my friends from Syria about my "I support intervention" stance. [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Neither she nor her children will be sullied with the dirty business of war. She abhors killing, so she expects to pay other people to do it for her. She also has yet to respond to the question of who will take over once Assad is gone.
This OP strikes me as another self-serving, manipulative post. "Just think of the children." Nobody accused her of "hating 'murka" in her other OP. What responders were emphatic about was that getting rid of Assad would leave equally, if not more, viscious thugs in charge. And that she needs to be careful what she wishes for.
So now it turns out that all of her connections to, and intel on, Syria, which is what she has based her opinion on, consist of a single ex-patriot family and some pepole from other ME countries.
She states above that nothing could be worse than what Assad is currently doing. Well, her friends don't seem to want more of the same, which is what they would get under a different thug.
And a lot of things could be worse than sarin gas. How about the white phosphorus we dropped in Iraq? Or the Agent Orange and Napalm in Vietnam?
She says she's concerned about "the children." Well, what about the thousands of Iraqi children with birth defects as a direct result of our dropping uranium in Iraq?
We killed 100,000 Iraqis at a minimum, and as many as a million, getting rid of Hussein, and left a bloody mess and destroyed infrastructure behind.
How many Afghanis did we kill trying to get rid of the Taliban?
I'm not wasting any more time on this. Onto Ignore she goes.