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In response to "agreed. which I can't figure out." by Mel Profit

He looks like he's reasonable in giving up the weapons, he emasculates the US and gives these weapons to Russia, and doesn't get any bombs rained on

Posted by Will Hunting (aka Joemetz) Sep 10 '13, 09:17

him. It's a win-win-win-win for the murderer.

We look inept in exerting influece both there and here.
Russia looks strong by controlling this event.
Syria doesn't get hit for crossing a huge line in the sand.
We did nothing to assist the rebels.

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I think it's a mixed bag for the US. Less likely to be entangled in another Middle Eastern war + I don't know that they are interested in assisting - Roger More Sep 10, 09:22 11
- Your second point is what I thought as well. I thought the rebels are pieces of shit too...and that we really didn't want to help them as much as we - Jim Sep 10, 09:27 10
  - Also..it seems like Obama was fucked no matter what he did on this. - Jim Sep 10, 09:32 5
    - I agree, but also Obama is partly responsible for that no-win situation. - Roger More Sep 10, 09:38
    - Agree completely. We can blame him for waffling, but every option was a bad one. There is no option without consequences, many of which are - pmb Sep 10, 09:36
    - word on that IM. -- nm - Diva Sep 10, 09:34
    - also, act, and Bachmann et al. take a trip to Syria and have a press conference accusing Obama of supporting Islamists. -- nm - znufrii Sep 10, 09:33
    - Proper fucked, yeah. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 10, 09:33
  - That's fair and reasonable, but at this point, we pretty much abandoned them. - Will Hunting Sep 10, 09:30 2
    - Again, your problem is with Russia looking better than the US, but they were always in a position to make this move. - con_carne Sep 10, 09:38 1
      - I have a problem becuase there's a finite amount of power in the world. We gave some up via bad strategy. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 10, 09:47
  - I wouldn't go that far, but I've read stuff suggesting that a year or two of war + lack of support from America have helped radicalise them. -- nm - Roger More Sep 10, 09:29
The US got what we wanted, and since we don't actually have diplomatic ties to Assad, we got someone else to do the heavy lifting for us -- nm - con_carne Sep 10, 09:21 1
- We didn't 'get' someone else, we were lucky that someone else stepped in after snubbing us at the UN. - Dr.Vermin Sep 10, 09:26
I don't understand, what part of this is something that wasn't in our already stated goals? -- nm - con_carne Sep 10, 09:19 1
- Giving Russia more power/leverage -- not punishing the murderous psycho for using WMD's --- giving hope to any rogue nation - Will Hunting Sep 10, 09:22

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He looks like he's reasonable in giving up the weapons, he emasculates the US and gives these weapons to Russia, and doesn't get any bombs rained on

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