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How Long Until Israel and Syria Engage?
We could start a pool on it. I'll take 3 months, August 19th.
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Define "Syria.""You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James NapierComment
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yesAny views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?Comment
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That's a long time to hold your wad.Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."Comment
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how long is piece of string?Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?Comment
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Pretty much this, I think.Originally posted by Alexander's Horse View Post"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James NapierComment
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I think they'll move in together first.Comment
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why should Israel engage? One of their main enemies is tearing itself apart and they get to keep the Golan Heights into the bargain if Syria splinters, the chaos also makes it easier to attack Iran's nuclear facilities when the time is ripe, which may be soon, with much less risk of coherent retaliation from either Syria or Lebanon, Israel is sitting pretty right now without lifting a fingerAny views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?Comment
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never (aside from occassional airstrikes to target aid to hezbolah). it's fairly clear that israel would prefer assad in power in syria over the potential alternatives.Last edited by C0ckney; May 19, 2013, 08:56."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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racist texans just want to see brown people fight each other
(because no jew is white in their eyes)To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Either someone intervene, or Syria will be a new Lebanon; 15 years of civil war, failed state and warlords. Of course, main problem for the West and Israel is it's a choice between a dictator and Western and Israeli hating islamist rebels (leaders of the rebels are from that camp these days).Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139.14a
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Also Islamists around the region treat Christians very poorly. But the West tends not to notice that.Comment
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Another reason for Israel not to intervene - it would be Lebanon 1982 all over again. It would probably eventually end the civil war by uniting the factions against the Israeli invader, the worst possible outcome for Israel. The 1982 invasion was disaster for Israel, it turned Western opinion against the Jewish state for the first time and Israel has never really recovered from it in terms of PR/international image.Originally posted by Nikolai View PostAny views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
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I don't agree with this. The academic lefties in the US always hated Israel, as did much of Europe. France never had much love for the Jewish state and neither did Britain.Originally posted by Alexander's Horse View PostIf there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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