Obama hints military action if hard evidence for chemical weapons use in Syria found
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[QUOTE=JaegerMonster;40487586]P.S the US isnt "beating the war drum". People read "military action" and lose their fucking minds. Military action doesn't necessarily mean a full scale invasion, it could be as limited as the support they gave in Libya. The US economy isn't really in a position to fund another ground war, even if there was a dedicated time frame.[/QUOTE]
"Beating the war drum" doesn't necessarily mean agitating for conventional war either. The US is always too happy to intervene in the middle-east to extend hegemonic control but because Russia and Assad have a fruitful relationship and a deeply war-weary public they've been quite more restrained that they typically would.
Russia will not surpass the US, why is Russophila so common here!
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;40485878]No, no, no, a thousand times NO. The US needs to stop making every single problem in the Middle East our problem. The reason that entire region of the world hates us is because the US jumps at any and all excuses to bomb Muslim nations, and invents excuses when they can't find a good enough one.
We've been at war in the Middle East for half of my lifetime, we need to fucking stop and let them solve their own goddamn problems. The US is bleeding to death economically to keep feeding our military to keep dropping bombs over there, and we get absolutely nothing of value for it.[/QUOTE]
Its not [I]your[/I] problem, its the worlds problem. We are just using you as muscle. Its what happens when you make up a huge part of NATO.
[editline]1st May 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=yawmwen;40485839]that might have been possible earlier in the conflict, but it is probably impossible now.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately I think you are right, I don't think there's much the west can do now. If the rebels are assisted there's a high chance that they are in fact terrorists and if Assad is supported, well he is Assad..
Maybe the option really is just to destroy chemical weapons and leave them to it.
On a side note, are these the same chemical weapons that Iraq allegedly moved across the border in the early 2000s?
What if chemical weapons were being used by the rebels and not the regime?
