US invades Syria - briefly. Was it legal?

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Sava
I wish I were a Joint-Chiefs member. I would go on CNN and say this, "We did what we had to do. Syria can suck my balls if they don't like it."

Why can't we have leaders like that?

After I become Lord Protector of North America, being an assholio will be required for the Press Secretary.

[rmsharpe]

Let's worry about the rights of Syria AFTER they get their bullying force out of Lebanon, stop repressing their people, stopping development of chemical/nuclear weapons, and supporting international terrorism.

The only illegal action here is the tolerance of the Syrian regime.

[Sava]

being an assholio will be required for the Press Secretary.

I should be qualified for that position. LONESTAR in 2004!

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
Let's worry about the rights of Syria AFTER they get their bullying force out of Lebanon,

Like you gave a rat's arse about Lebanon's fate when Israel had troops there.

[rmsharpe]

Lebanon had the chance to become a first-world Arab country and an opening for democracy and tolerance in the Middle East (one where the sole tolerant democracy was not Israel) - of course I cared.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Yeah, as soon as the Druze and the Shia and the Sunni and the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic and the Maronites got done killing each other.

Lebanon dropped into festering ****hole civil war status before the Syrians and Israelis got involved, all on their own.

[Ted Striker]

So what happened?

I heard it was the French Riveria of the Middle East before the civil war...

[MichaeltheGreat]

Better than the Riviera.

Basically, there was a big income disparity and disparity in political power between Christians and Moslems, and the dominant Christians couldn't be bothered updating an early 1930's census for a few decades, because they realized population growth among the Moslems would start shifting the balance of power politically. Things kind of slid downhill during the whole of the 60's, but on a small scale, because nobody yet had external support to really go balls to the wall fighting everyone else.

After the PLO got expelled from Jordan in 1970, they started basing in Lebanon, and launching cross-border raids into Israel, with the popular support of leftist Arabs. Then Israel and Syria got into the act, but in each case, the three main players picked a major local faction that already hated the others and was starting to fight the others actively.

Eventually, private feuds and factionalism within the major groups increased to the point where there was once something like 50 separate private fighting forces going at it.

[Berzerker]

Let's worry about the rights of Syria AFTER they get their bullying force out of Lebanon, stop repressing their people, stopping development of chemical/nuclear weapons, and supporting international terrorism.

The only illegal action here is the tolerance of the Syrian regime.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Sava
I wish I were a Joint-Chiefs member. I would go on CNN and say this, "We did what we had to do. Syria can suck my balls if they don't like it."

Why can't we have leaders like that?

And you are the one who doesn't like Rumsfeld?

[Panag]

hi ,

darn right its legal , ....

go get them boys

have a nice day

panag hopes the US will toggle the regime in damascus

[Panag]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
So what happened?

I heard it was the French Riveria of the Middle East before the civil war...

hi ,

damascus thought it needed more coast , ......

that and hez****la , .......

not to mention the plo and some other scum who move in and wanted to kill off every single christian , moderate muslim , ( some shiite where and still are today on israel's side (!) ) druze , greek , etc , ......

the city is being rebuild today at a huge speed , but there are still areas with checkpoints and daily gun battles

have a nice day

[PLATO]

Dad was over there on a business trip in early 1970's. Said Beirut was the most western city in ME. Sad what happened there. Even though Mtg says that the problem started before Syria got involved, somehow I believe that they had a lot to do with the discontent among the growing Muslim population. I believe that they were trying to create a situation where another front opened in their war with Israel. It seems that they were successful at the expense of a decent country.

[Panag]

Originally posted by PLATO1003
Dad was over there on a business trip in early 1970's. Said Beirut was the most western city in ME. Sad what happened there. Even though Mtg says that the problem started before Syria got involved, somehow I believe that they had a lot to do with the discontent among the growing Muslim population. I believe that they were trying to create a situation where another front opened in their war with Israel. It seems that they were successful at the expense of a decent country.

hi ,

he never saw Tel-aviv then , ......

or Haifa , ......

but it was indeed an amazing city , unfortunatly even with all the rebuilding going on now it shall never again be the same , ....

have a nice day

[Andrew1999]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
BTW, Andrew, if you're being shot at, or pursuing guys who can stop anytime and shoot at you, looking at GPS and a map is probably not at the top of your priority list.

Yeah, I know. I just figured whoever was coordinating the attack would be keeping an eye on it. I doubt we'd be so cavalier about border incursions if we were chasing people near North Korea.

When the question is "Have we invaded another country?", I don't think "Hell if I know" is an acceptable response.