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pampango

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16. The government in Iraq wants to attack ISIS. In Syria the government did not attack ISIS

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 04:23 PM

Sep 2014

until last month when ISIS captured the military base in the north. They had a implicit truce with each other so they could both concentrate on attacking other Syrian rebel groups.

Should the US have the same policy towards ISIS in Syria, if the Syrian government does not attack ISIS itself and does not authorize the US to do so? That sounds like pretty dangerous foreign policy to me.

Syria has made it quite clear that the US had better not have a policy of attacking ISIS in Syria unless and until something is worked out with Mr. Assad. (Iraq has done the opposite.) At this stage, if the US policy towards ISIS was the same in Syria as it is in Iraq, Mr. Assad would not be a happy dictator.

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Will air assault against IS in Syria be used to effect regime change? [View all] another_liberal Sep 2014 OP

RT. Tarheel_Dem Sep 2014 #1

Ad Hominem attack FAIL. grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #3

Is this "ad hominem" as well? Tarheel_Dem Sep 2014 #18

Thank goodness there's still some honest folks in this debate, unlike the online propagandists. Tarheel_Dem Sep 2014 #21

It's nice to see they present opposing views;) grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #22

Yeah. Let's go with that. Tarheel_Dem Sep 2014 #23

personally I try to treat EVERY news source with a critical eye that looks for the holes KurtNYC Sep 2014 #24

TYT/Buzzfeed: "Russia's Online Troll Army Is Huge, Hilarious & Already Everywhere " Tarheel_Dem Sep 2014 #26

Same thing the NSA does here... grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #28

Yup. Exactly the same! Only Different. Tarheel_Dem Sep 2014 #30

You would know;) grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #31

Hehe... SidDithers Sep 2014 #29

We know "Russian Online Troll Army is huge"! Always popping up with their distractions.. Cha Sep 2014 #35

The Op isn't even about President Putin . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #36

OMFG! William769 Sep 2014 #37

Like I said . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #40

Go for it! William769 Sep 2014 #41

When you are doing such a good job of proving my point? another_liberal Sep 2014 #43

LOL.. the OP is about RT. End of story. P.S. I'm not reading any RT Shite. Cha Sep 2014 #44

Didn't bother to read any of it, right? another_liberal Sep 2014 #45

"You are disrupting the flow of the conversation here with your off-topic........" Tarheel_Dem Sep 2014 #47

Good job! William769 Sep 2014 #39

Glad you saw this, William.. I got it from my Journal and had thanked Cha Sep 2014 #42

Lets try to stick to the topic of the OP, alright? another_liberal Sep 2014 #38

But there's an "army of Putin trolls" who've swooped down on us from the Kremlin. Tarheel_Dem Sep 2014 #46

Write your own OP on that topic then . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #50

Your Opinions Are The Topic, Sir The Magistrate Sep 2014 #54

Who better to tell us what Lavrov is saying? Comrade Grumpy Sep 2014 #11

Russia can stop all of this jamzrockz Sep 2014 #2

We can stop all of this by arming working with Assad, Iran, Israel, SA, Turkey, et al., to help THEM grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #5

Why even do anything? jamzrockz Sep 2014 #7

I have to agree. It seems to me ISIS may be the perfect thing to bring these disparate entities grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #9

Would the United States, Turkey, Israel or other Mid-East powers be willing . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #8

If you have been watching jamzrockz Sep 2014 #12

I've had seen no reason to take offense . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #15

There's a real question about what happens if Assad asks Russia for help. Xithras Sep 2014 #17

It would be advisable to avoid bombing in Syria . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #19

the pretext would probably not be the air strikes but the presence of ISIS itself KurtNYC Sep 2014 #4

Good point . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #10

The government in Iraq wants to attack ISIS. In Syria the government did not attack ISIS pampango Sep 2014 #16

June 24, 2014 - the Syrian Airforce struck ISIS in Iraq KurtNYC Sep 2014 #51

"ISIS has spent most of the past 18 months avoiding actually fighting the Syrian government, pampango Sep 2014 #53

Links KurtNYC Sep 2014 #56

All your links reference Syrian airstrikes on ISIS - oddly - in western Iraq, not in Syria. pampango Sep 2014 #58

Yes, of course, this has been the neocon plan since day 1: grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #6

Obama's speech will be one year to the day of his speech requesting authroization to bomb Assad. morningfog Sep 2014 #13

I had never seen that video clip before . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #14

a few years later and this is what he has to say nationalize the fed Sep 2014 #48

It would appear the Military/Industrial Complex guys got to the good General meantime . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #49

Don't rule that out malaise Sep 2014 #20

Is a rehabilitated Dick Cheney the kind of thing we should expect now? another_liberal Sep 2014 #33

I can't take any more of this madness malaise Sep 2014 #34

RT. LOL...nt SidDithers Sep 2014 #25

Not to split hairs but OPs subject could confuse some. Anansi1171 Sep 2014 #27

A series of air strikes is often referred to as an air assault . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #32

Lavrov's CT's about bombing Syria are just that Obama isn't going to do it. davidpdx Sep 2014 #52

The Only Way Assad's Forces Would Come Under Fire, Sir, Is If They Tried To Interfere The Magistrate Sep 2014 #55

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley Robert Burns Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #57