It is pretty stupid to start bombing Syria in the name of saving people.
During the Vietnam conflict, an un-named US Army Officer famously said: "we have to destroy that village to save it."
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It is pretty stupid to start bombing Syria in the name of saving people.
I agree.
What worries me is when "peaceful" demonstrations about events in other Countries start happening here.
No thanks.
Go over to those Countries and demonstrate there, please.
Yeah. How dare people care about their families. Don't they know that when they come to Australia they have to renounce everything in their life that came before it.
I am so sick of this bs, please don't tell me I am a conspiracy nut because I am getting awfully sick of these immoral wars in the name of democracy or whatever they like to call it.
Nothing of the sort.Yeah. How dare people care about their families. Don't they know that when they come to Australia they have to renounce everything in their life that came before it.
Australia needs to send emergency medical aid to Syria immediately and assist an independent assessment of the situation. It must not rush towards sacrificing its young soldiers on behalf of an ambitious foreign power before the jury is in.
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The Syrian government has been aware for some time that such an attack would be against its own strategic interests, since it would likely be used as the pretext for outside forces to topple the regime — it has known this at least since earlier this year when President Barack Obama issued public threats that any use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government would be a “red line”.
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The Australian Parliament and Prime Minister Rudd must answer two questions: One, what is the quality of the evidence and is it better than that used to mislead Australia into the Iraq War? And two, what Australian interests are served by military intervention in Syria and its aftermath?
I agree with the OP. This whole situation stinks. It defies logic, why would Assad use chemical weapons when that would give UK/US forces the exact excuse they need to attack? ..
if I had to put money on it, I'd say false flag.
The rebels have already been found to stockpile chemical weapons. They most likely have used them to draw in the west which seem to be looking for any excuse to lob some bombs for whatever reason.
How on earth is a United Nations inspection team going to deduce who the culprit was?
Surely all they could prove is that the deaths occurred as a result of chemicals.
Clogging up streets here, and risking an escalation into violence and worse will not change anything there.
Maybe a government rocket struck a weapons cache. Maybe the government forces did it. Maybe one of the groups opposing the government did it.
How on earth is a United Nations inspection team going to deduce who the culprit was?
Surely all they could prove is that the deaths occurred as a result of chemicals.
but, the protests about an incident overseas are mostly about that incident first, and by those directly related to the Countrymen involved.IMO it's more about changing what is happening here (namely our governments support and commitment of our young soldiers to attacking other countries in our name without approval of the international community or law).
We're only going to be a super power for another 5-10 years, this is our last chance to clean up these ex-Soviet states...
We’re going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran
Got it in one.If I understand BayView correctly, he is talking about protests staged by nationals of foreign countries about the things that happen in other countries.
For example, Syrians protesting in Australia in support (or against) the actions of Syrian government. Most of us don't care about it. It's their government and if they want to protest or change something they should go to Syria and use whatever means they want to get their point across.
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But we will never know to the full extent what has happened in events like this as we wont be privy to all the information at hand. We won't be able to review all the evidence that top level government security officials would get, classified UN documents nor would be able to hear first hand from the victims/villains.