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riderinthestorm

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15. I agree with you 100% Sabrina. On all fronts

Wed Sep 4, 2013, 12:41 PM

Sep 2013

EXCEPT I do wonder if Assad is brutal enough to "strike back" at the US by painting/manipulating/amplifying it with a few more civilian casualties.

That's all.

Klein's statistic about the post intervention violence just caught my eye and I wondered aloud....

Regardless its a clusterfuck on the order of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan with Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen teetering on the brink of joining the disaster parade. Jordan's not going to be able to endure much more with the huge influx of Syrians. Lebanon is teetering (if its not already fallen into civil war - hard to tell from afar).

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"Could bombing Syria kill more civilians than it saves?" --Ezra Klein [View all] KoKo Sep 2013 OP

Gee, YA THINK?!?!? durablend Sep 2013 #1

Ezra Klein is always an interesting read riderinthestorm Sep 2013 #2

What I find shocking Harmony Blue Sep 2013 #3

But those who support action will probably say its necessary riderinthestorm Sep 2013 #8

They will say what they always say, that if you didn't want your child to die you should not have sabrina 1 Sep 2013 #9

I didn't read his piece as shifting the blame. riderinthestorm Sep 2013 #11

It makes no logical sense for Assad to kill his own supporters, and that is not what generally sabrina 1 Sep 2013 #13

Perfectly stated, Sabrina. nt. polly7 Sep 2013 #14

I agree with you 100% Sabrina. On all fronts riderinthestorm Sep 2013 #15

Only tools and fools believe this is a humanitarian mission whatchamacallit Sep 2013 #4

+1. nt. polly7 Sep 2013 #6

It could possibly kill more than the gas attack did. n/t hughee99 Sep 2013 #5

There's a third reason as well. kenny blankenship Sep 2013 #7

Going to the UN to get a Resolution to get Syria to allow Weapons Inspectors in KoKo Sep 2013 #12

K&R Solly Mack Sep 2013 #10

Sloppy Research.... Jeff In Milwaukee Sep 2013 #16

It's "Common Sense." The Research only gives credibility to the Common Sense KoKo Sep 2013 #17

In research, there's no such thing as "common sense" Jeff In Milwaukee Sep 2013 #18