Syria Mobilized 300,000 Reservists?

[Evil Knevil]

Yeah, you'd kick their ass, but you'd look bad for trying.

I think Syria may be deliberately talking 'big' to try and get some concessions from the international community -as well as Israel. Any unjustified aggression would lead to sanctions/a possible US invasion.

However, Syria is probably bolstered by knowing that Arab opinion is behind them, and US aggression would be unpopular.

[Evil Knevil]

Oh, and my wife's in Syria at the moment.

[CerberusIV]

Just a wild thought - are the Syrians going to use these reservists to build hundreds of fake terrorist training camps? Then the intelligence people will be having a nervous breakdown and the IAF will be overloaded with possible targets.

[Az]

Evil Knevil: sucks to hear that. As you already know, I hope this all ends in peace (esp. since I am LIVING here. )

[Evil Knevil]

S'okay she's in the NE doing some research about the Armenian genocide. She'll be home in a week.

[Az]

oh, NE is like the complete other side of the country.

[Evil Knevil]

Yeah, the Govt will collapse before your powerful tanks get there, I hope... but if the US invades

Could you tell the Elders of Zion to hold off for a week, since I can't afford a funeral and she'd have to be buried in an unlaquered pine coffin

[Saras]

"Armenian" and "genocide" is something you don't mention in one sentence in Turkey. Talk about the Japanese not admitting their guilt

[Evil Knevil]

I mentioned it in a Kebab house the other night. (drunkenly and loudly) Nothing happened!

[Az]

Could you tell the Elders of Zion to hold off for a week, since I can't afford a funeral and she'd have to be buried in an unlaquered pine coffin

This is both funny and eery as hell.

I mentioned it in a Kebab house the other night. (drunkenly and loudly) Nothing happened!

You sure it was a turkish Kebab house.

[Evil Knevil]

Why eery?

It was a Turkish one, I think. Doesn't matter, I'll have to wear sign around my neck with "900,000 Armenians can't be wrong", next time in Istanbul

[Az]

Why not just have a good time in Istanbul?

[axi]

Some of you guys are totally freaking me out...
...as if the news itself is not freaky enough.

Eli, so what? We have them surrounded, and they're low tech. The only downside to destroying them in battle is the cost of rebuilding their country and economy so that next go round they're high tech.

I wished to hell they would do something. Peace is so over rated. War helps restore the proper balance and I for one need to be balanced.

See? The thread is loony enough, even without Sirotnikov posting in it.


All I want to ask the Israelis but foremost the Americans in this forum is this:
What has Syria done to deserve such aggression?

To the United States, it has done absolutely nothing. Yet since the capture of Iraq, Suria figures in the axis-of-evil. Now, after Israel bombed camps in Syria, the President is pushing for a bill to impose sanctions to Syria, as if they were the agressors and not the victims of aggression.

Now the Israelis hold their usual claims about funding terrorism, fighting a war by proxy, etc. However they are the ones who occupy the Golan heights and have invaded Lebanon so they shouldn't expect anything less from them.

The big question is why now? What has Syria done this last year that it hasn't been doing during the last 20 years?

The obvious answer is that of power politics. Syria is at it's weakest strategic condition ever and the fascist Israeli government feels that it is at their best interests to drag the USA in a war with Syria. The United States government is IMO run by reactionary freaks, whose actions cannot be justified by reason, except perhaps the kind of reason that calls for more wars and more armaments, lest some companies should run out of contracts.

However the average American has nothing to gain from funding another war, nor the average Israeli has anything to gain from more bloodshed. So why are you getting all so freaked-out about Syria, all of a sudden? Can't you resist even a little bit at the urge to conform to whatever propaganda they're throwing at you?

[Eli]

What has Syria done to deserve such aggression?

Why do you climb a mountain?

[axi]

This isn't funny you know...