Obama Administration waives ban on arming Syrian terrorist groups

[regexcellent]

They're doing a pretty damn good job of that on their own, they don't need our help.

[Sava]

They're doing a pretty damn good job of that on their own, they don't need our help.

Uhm. How?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Nothing says protecting civilians and children like indiscriminate ineffective bombing with collateral damage.

[regexcellent]

By blowing each other up, and using all the weapons on each other.

[Sava]

I don't think you understand what "reduce capability" means.

[regexcellent]

Well if the rebels use up all the anti-tank missiles on government tanks, there won't be many tanks or anti-tank missiles left will there? Seems to me the capabilities would be reduced in two ways.

[Sava]

I don't think you understand how war works.

[Asher]

You're an idiot. You realize this isn't a choice between liberal democracy and sarin gas right? The only question right now is who gets the Sarin gas, and I'd rather Assad have it than Al Qaeda. At least he's only using it on his OWN people and not anyone else's, whereas his opponents would be happy to do both.

I'm the idiot, yet you're the one who boils down the Syrian crisis to Al Qaeda vs Assad.

Did you even know where Syria was before Fox News started talking about it?

[kentonio]

Nothing says protecting civilians and children like indiscriminate ineffective bombing with collateral damage.

If the bombing was indiscriminate, how could it have collateral damage? Also who exactly is it you suspect would be engaging in this indiscriminate bombing?

[regexcellent]

Indiscriminate bombing pretty much by its nature will have collateral damage, if by collateral damage we're using the standard definition of hitting things you weren't interested in destroying.

[kentonio]

Indiscriminate bombing pretty much by its nature will have collateral damage, if by collateral damage we're using the standard definition of hitting things you weren't interested in destroying.

Think about what you just said..

[regexcellent]

Indiscriminate bombing means you're unconcerned about collateral damage, not that there won't be any

[Imran Siddiqui]

We have no reason whatsoever to believe the rebels wouldn't use sarin gas too if they had access to it and delivery mechanisms in quantity.

We have no reason whatsoever to believe that a future Republican President wouldn't use nukes on Muslim countries so we should forthwith amend the Constitution to make it Democratic Presidents for life

[regexcellent]

We have no reason whatsoever to believe that a future Republican President wouldn't use nukes on Muslim countries so we should forthwith amend the Constitution to make it Democratic Presidents for life

Yeah except that's not actually true.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Neither is your point. Hence, even.