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Scootaloo

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15. You just said something really dumb

Reply to Yorktown (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 21, 2015, 08:32 AM

Dec 2015

Free and fair elections with Bachar around? I think not..

How free and fair is an election of a foreign nation is controlling who is and is not on the ballot?

How free and fair is an election, when the military force of that foreign nation is parked just offshore and just on the other side of hte border and is controlling the airspace?

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Blocking Democracy as Syria's Solution [View all] eridani Dec 2015 OP

smh merrily Dec 2015 #1

in the meantime, keeps dropping them bombs in the name of regime change, worked so well in iraq and KG Dec 2015 #2

Russia is dropping a lot more bombs than we are, but please continue... Blue_Tires Dec 2015 #24

the neocons� dream of Syrian �regime change,�??? Yorktown Dec 2015 #3

We've seen this movie before with Saddam and Gadaffi. It doesn't end well. It just unleashes CJCRANE Dec 2015 #5

Different issues Yorktown Dec 2015 #9

The rebels in Benghazi were armed terrorists. CJCRANE Dec 2015 #10

No. The rebels were the civil society Yorktown Dec 2015 #11

We didn't really help the Libyan people in that regard Scootaloo Dec 2015 #17

"The people of Syria" do not exists. AngryAmish Dec 2015 #12

Not true in the case of Syria Yorktown Dec 2015 #13

Many sunni do not want a salafist dictator Cayenne Dec 2015 #20

Bachar propped the Salafis among hiis opponents so there would be two bad choices Yorktown Dec 2015 #25

Oh lord. This garbage? Scootaloo Dec 2015 #16

Being tribal does not mean primitive. AngryAmish Dec 2015 #18

But the statement is untrue, when used to describe Syrians Scootaloo Dec 2015 #21

You just said something really dumb Scootaloo Dec 2015 #15

Anyone who would vote against Assad is either a refugee or dead. joshcryer Dec 2015 #4

Not so. For better or worse, Assad is the only protector of religious minorities there eridani Dec 2015 #6

I don't disagree. joshcryer Dec 2015 #8

Is this a job for Jimmy Carter? If anyone could figure out a way to do a fair vote-- eridani Dec 2015 #26

The hypocrisy is stunning. We are using islamist mercenaries funded by absolute islamic monarchies CJCRANE Dec 2015 #7

USA has no right to deny any Syrian politician from the Syrian ballot. delrem Dec 2015 #14

The dictators of the world owe him a debt for the "Assad gambit" for dictator longevity. pampango Dec 2015 #19

The sad truth is that democracies in the Middle East are too weak to oppose Islamists LittleBlue Dec 2015 #22

Please post your daily Assad apologia somewhere else... Blue_Tires Dec 2015 #23

People who think that knocking off dictators is a good idea should be ever so proud-- eridani Dec 2015 #27