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Exactly, then that makes you all talk and a big windbag...
But this is not an isolated incident (see Libya).
Regardless, how to save face when every bone in your body and everything you have said says you're gonna "get these guys" for their supposed used to chemical weapons.
Yeah, they gotta save face 'cause they are all Gung ho with bombing the # outta them more than they are with trying to solve it diplomatically.
And the world knows and sees this.
Liquesence
reply to post by xuenchen
Yeah, because Russia became the new diplomats, while the US remains the military aggressor.
How to save face from this one, when you're shown to be the international bully and your "foe" is diplomatically de-escalating the situation?
edit on 9-9-2013 by Liquesence because: (no reason given)
MrSpad
What you can deduce from all this that the UN report is not going to go Assads way and that Russians know the world is going know Assads forces used the gas. Russia desperate to protect its arms market has siezed upon this as chance to delay Assads fall and keep making some money. The US goal in these strikes would be to keep Assad from using gas again. By turing over the weapons that meets its goal and Assads regime lives a little longer. I do not know how realistic is to have international troops in Syria to take the weapons as much like the rebels Assad does not have direct control of all the forces on his side. I also expect the West to finaly start arming and training the rebels.
Take the offer and don't be stupid. Russia, does not make offers or solutions that often. And the last time it did, it was on the brink of war with the USA. So we should consider their offer and take it, let them work out the details and if it happens again, we can then point to their failure to prevent the use of a chemical weapons.
stormdancer777
reply to
Merry band of goofballs, that's funny.
Who would have ever thought putin would have to save Americans from their own president.
Putin is not saving Americans from Obama, he is trying to save Assad from Obama.. Putin is only protecting his own interest and knows if Obama did bomb Syria there is not much they could do to stop it.. If Russia would of done this in the beginning we wouldn't be in this crisis. Russia does not want to go toe to toe with the US over Syria, it is not worth it.
pirhanna
reply to post by xuenchen
That won't solve the issue, because the issue was never chemical weapons.
They will find a way to have their war. I guarantee it. False flag, or arming the rebels with more advanced weaponry.
abecedarian
You have to give Assad enough time to move out of Syria, all the weapons Saddam moved to Syria.
The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.
earthling42
reply to post by xuenchen
He is just selling lies and his plan has been thrown under a bus by Kerry and his proposal about handing over the chemical weapons.
He still mainains the lie that assad is killing his own people and that assad was the one who has used chemical weapons.
Speaking to Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov Mr Kerry said that his comments were not meant to be a proposal.
www.itv.com...
Syria said ok, will do.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could avoid a U.S. military strike by surrendering all his chemical weapons within a week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday, but immediately made clear he was not making a serious offer. ..............
Kerry: Syrian surrender of chemical arms could stop U.S. attack
seabag
reply to post by Liquesence
If you don’t actually DO ANYTHING then you’re not the bully….you’re just a big mouth, right?
Most bullies are just talk, so he is indeed a big bully. Who the world knows now, will not EVER follow through on his threats. Even though I am against involvement in Syria, this man, he is the biggest threat to America. PERIOD>