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  • #61
    You can have that one. I don't want it.
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    • #62
      Originally posted by kentonio View Post
      If you're bombing indiscriminately then there is no target to miss and cause collateral damage. Collateral damage makes absolutely no sense in regards to indiscriminate bombing.
      Which is what would need to happen in Syria, if we were to go.
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      • #63
        Originally posted by DaShi View Post
        So much has changed in less than a month. The conservatives were hammering the drums for Obama to arm the rebels. Now that he might do it, they are angry that it could happen.
        That's what the Republicans have been doing for the last five years. The scream about how much they love their state position and how the world would be such a better place if only the evil Obama would enact their stated position... And then when Obama says he agrees with them and adopts their stated position, well, then the Republicans flip a 180 and claim they hate their own stated position. They've literally done this over and over on every issue which has come up.
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        • #64
          Not really. Here, I would be a conservative. I never said to take one side or the other. I said to smoke them, if we were ever going there.
          Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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          • #65
            Originally posted by DaShi View Post
            The conservatives were hammering the drums for Obama to arm the rebels. Now that he might do it, they are angry that it could happen.
            Two years ago when it might have made a difference. That ship sailed.
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            • #66
              My own view has always been against intervention. So too, many 'conservative' writers. There was no conservative consensus on this issue and it is wrong to suggest otherwise.
              "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 Napier

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              • #67
                Originally posted by Zevico View Post
                My own view has always been against intervention. So too, many 'conservative' writers. There was no conservative consensus on this issue and it is wrong to suggest otherwise.
                Same.
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                • #68
                  Anti-intervention pro-Assad?
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                  • #69
                    I'm more anti-intervention than you!

                    I don't think we should intervene in:
                    - Israel/Palestine
                    - Afghanistan
                    - Iraq
                    - Iran
                    - North Korea
                    - Alabama
                    - Syria

                    Specifically, Canada should not intervene in any country other than Canada itself.
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                    • #70
                      Canada can continue being a ****ty country. No skin off my back.
                      If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                        Canada can continue being a ****ty country. No skin off my back.
                        That's certainly the Obama admin view wrt the Keystone XL pipeline.
                        I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by DinoDoc View Post
                          Two years ago when it might have made a difference. That ship sailed.
                          My ass. The civil war is a stalemate so, yes, improving the arms and training of the moderate factions could indeed make a large difference.
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                          • #73
                            You mean like they way we kept supporting Iraq until Iran was reduced to WWI style suicide charges in the 80s?
                            No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                              Canada can continue being a ****ty country. No skin off my back.
                              ****ty country regularly represented at the top of the Best Places to Live lists. Higher levels of quality of living, longer life expectancy, better education rates, etc.

                              ****ty country indeed.
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                              • #75
                                In a shocking revelation, it seems HC oversimplified a very complex situation.

                                Al Qaeda-linked militants were on the verge of capturing a strategic border gate between Turkey and opposition-controlled northern Syria late Wednesday night.


                                It looks like a 3-way battle between the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, a chemical-weapons-using Assad, and moderate Syrians.

                                Given these choices, it's telling some people here choose the guy who kills thousands of people with Sarin.
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