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Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
Obama is really playing all his cards at once now that he has been exposed for what he really is.
Originally posted by sylent6
I'm so confused on what is he trying to accomplish here.
The man has really lost all clear signs of good judgment.
Originally posted by Theprimevoyager
Sending arms will only escalate the situation.
Originally posted by OtherSideOfTheCoin
Members may recall a couple of weeks ago i posted that France had confirmed Chemical Weapons in Syria and writing about Obama's failing foreign policy so really this was only a matter of time, Obama had to do something at some point.
Originally posted by all2human
And the US tax payer will pick up the billedit on 14-6-2013 by all2human because: (no reason given)
throwing burka's on the women.
Um Jaafar (right), a woman fighter in the Free Syrian Army, sits next to her husband Abu Jaafar, a Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights) battalion commander, as she undergoes military training with other women in Aleppo on Sunday. The women are undergoing military training to form the Nazek Obeid group to be based on the frontline of Aleppo's Sheikh Saeed neighborhood. Um Jaafar was a women's hairdresser before the revolution. Reuters/Muzaffar Salman
Originally posted by OtherSideOfTheCoin
US says it will give military aid to Syria rebels
www.bbc.co.uk
(visit the link for the full news article)
The US is to supply direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time, the White House has announced.
President Obama made the decision after his administration concluded Syrian forces under Bashar al-Assad were using chemical weapons, a spokesman said.
Ben Rhodes did not give details about the military aid other than to say it would be "different in scope and scale to what we have provided before"
edit on 14-6-2013 by OtherSideOfTheCoin because: (no reason given)
THe U.S funded the Taliban in the Afghan war against Russia.
The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān "students"), alternative spelling Taleban,[6] is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan. It spread into Afghanistan and formed a government, ruling as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from September 1996 until December 2001, with Kandahar as the capita
The Taliban movement traces its origin to the Pakistani-trained mujahideen in northern Pakistan, during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
Pashtun people (Pashto: پښتانه Pax̌tānə; also spelled Pushtun, Pakhtun or Pukhtun), also known as ethnic Afghans or Pathans[13][14] are an Iranic ethnic group belonging to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Originally posted by Theprimevoyager
Sending arms will only escalate the situation.
We need to NOT get involved, let them sort it out for themselves.
Three hundred US Marines have been deployed to northern Jordan to pave the way for the West to arm Syrian rebels.