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HardTimes99

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66. Interesting little side note to your post: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Advisor

Sat Aug 31, 2013, 10:10 PM

Aug 2013

(and an informal foreign policy advisor to Obama, IIRC) bragged openly about using Afghanistan and the mujaheddin to lure the USSR into its own Vietnam. When asked whether the deaths of 3,000 civilians in the WTC were an acceptable price to pay for this global chess, Brzezinski hemmed and hawed a bit but ultimately said that, yes, disablly the USSR was worth losing 3,000 civilians in New York City. I was flabbergasted when I saw it and put it right up there with that genius Madeleine Albright saying the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were 'worth it.'

These people are playing chess at a level where you and I are not even pawns.

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Syria Inaction is NOT AN OPTION [View all] Jack_Dawson Aug 2013 OP

Syria and the deaths there are not our problem. geek tragedy Aug 2013 #1

Sooo...do nothing? Jack_Dawson Aug 2013 #3

Yep, do nothing. Nothing now, and nothing when Assad loses and the massacres begin. geek tragedy Aug 2013 #6

^ This. AzDar Aug 2013 #60

There's nothing we CAN do Ken Burch Aug 2013 #7

BINGO! RC Aug 2013 #63

GOP CONGRESS WILL USE THIS AS REASON TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT OBAMA trueblue2007 Aug 2013 #39

I'm glad she let go.... Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2013 #2

*snort* NuclearDem Aug 2013 #10

I always that Rose should have just stayed on that damned lifeboat. Brigid Aug 2013 #15

It absolutely is an option... HooptieWagon Aug 2013 #4

THis moral equivalency is nonsense. Adrahil Aug 2013 #45

This chemical weapons fetish is just hysteria. dairydog91 Aug 2013 #52

Inadvertent? MNBrewer Aug 2013 #55

I agree. The president must act and not LukeFL Aug 2013 #5

I am really torn. DearAbby Aug 2013 #8

If the President does NOT act.... Adrahil Aug 2013 #46

So what if Iran develops a nuclear weapon? eridani Aug 2013 #50

My main concern about a nuclear Iran Adrahil Aug 2013 #59

Not seeing how that would be worse than the current situation eridani Sep 2013 #70

That would be the same Iran that Saddam gassed with chemical weapons we knew he had Bluenorthwest Aug 2013 #58

Want a list of other tragedy's worldwide we are ignoring? Wow! n-t Logical Aug 2013 #9

You are absolutely correct! marew Aug 2013 #33

S... At what pont do we act? Adrahil Aug 2013 #47

Welcome Back to DU! RandiFan1290 Aug 2013 #51

We have these quandries all the time marew Aug 2013 #53

Ugh. NuclearDem Aug 2013 #11

Al Qaeda is a greater enemy, by far. David__77 Aug 2013 #12

Interesting little side note to your post: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Advisor HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #66

Ok, so we bomb Assad. Savannahmann Aug 2013 #13

Oh, stop injecting reason and facts into this. NuclearDem Aug 2013 #14

Sorry, it's a bad habit Savannahmann Aug 2013 #17

Begone with that analysis! We're emoting our way into a war, not thinking! dairydog91 Aug 2013 #54

We're tapped out. We no longer have any moral authority on the world stage. Brigid Aug 2013 #16

Well said... nt marew Aug 2013 #34

I think this should be Russia's responsibility. Waiting For Everyman Aug 2013 #18

But the world community... ocpagu Sep 2013 #73

No Blood for Ego! David__77 Aug 2013 #19

So, you advocate frustrated_lefty Aug 2013 #20

This one aint our job, buddy Warpy Aug 2013 #21

and then what? frylock Aug 2013 #22

smoke a cigarette cthulu2016 Aug 2013 #23

You're just hungry for the US to bomb more people. delrem Aug 2013 #24

Oh, sure, blowing shit up will solve the problem... backscatter712 Aug 2013 #25

Don't forget to send a note to DU when you hit the ground in Syria wearing your confortable boots! idwiyo Aug 2013 #26

Well said. Travis_0004 Aug 2013 #27

Mr. President, please forget our Congress ForgoTheConsequence Aug 2013 #28

YES IT IS! kiva Aug 2013 #29

Fallacious because you assume MILITARY action is the ONLY kind of action possible pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #30

What if, after a limited, narrow military strike against the Assad regime, that regime uses CW.. workinclasszero Aug 2013 #57

If it's being considered, it's an option TroglodyteScholar Aug 2013 #31

It is an option and the one that should be taken LibAsHell Aug 2013 #32

Do you think the US should be attacked for murdering hundreds of thousands of Iraqis? ronnie624 Aug 2013 #35

"taught a lesson" Union Scribe Aug 2013 #36

+1 indeed, that is the lesson. cali Aug 2013 #42

Inaction is definitely AN OPTION. avaistheone1 Aug 2013 #37

Crimes against humanity are ok as long as you do it slowly in the right way workinclasszero Aug 2013 #61

Anybody else notice that when somebody says "So basically what you're saying is..." Alamuti Lotus Aug 2013 #38

of course not intervening militarily is an option. cali Aug 2013 #40

Of course it is. Democracyinkind Aug 2013 #41

you post this and fun away? cali Aug 2013 #43

In trying to help Syria, an intervention would destroy it cali Aug 2013 #44

What I'm saying is that there is no way to effectively do anything eridani Aug 2013 #48

The rebels are committing the same atrocities. Dash87 Aug 2013 #49

Mr. President...unleash the hounds Vinnie From Indy Aug 2013 #56

Yeah, actually, it is. nt bemildred Aug 2013 #62

Bold assertions do not equal clear thinking. sibelian Aug 2013 #64

Darfur: Is inaction an option there? (n/t) Jim Lane Aug 2013 #65

This message was self-deleted by its author Dash87 Sep 2013 #67

Wait. What are we doing about the children the other side is killing? DirkGently Sep 2013 #68

This isn't a situation the US can solve there's to many sides to this and the potential for genocide Arcanetrance Sep 2013 #69

We have enough problems right here in the US. This playing world policeman B Calm Sep 2013 #71

Syria Inaction is A VALID OPTION Jasana Sep 2013 #72