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In response to
"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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Will Hunting
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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
Posted by
Roger More (aka rogermore)
Sep 10 '13, 09:22
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the rebels.
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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
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Jim
Sep 10, 09:27
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Also..it seems like Obama was fucked no matter what he did on this.
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Jim
Sep 10, 09:32
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I agree, but also Obama is partly responsible for that no-win situation.
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Roger More
Sep 10, 09:38
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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
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pmb
Sep 10, 09:36
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word on that IM. -- nm
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Diva
Sep 10, 09:34
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also, act, and Bachmann et al. take a trip to Syria and have a press conference accusing Obama of supporting Islamists. -- nm
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znufrii
Sep 10, 09:33
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Proper fucked, yeah. -- nm
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Beryllium
Sep 10, 09:33
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That's fair and reasonable, but at this point, we pretty much abandoned them.
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Will Hunting
Sep 10, 09:30
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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
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Roger More
Sep 10, 09:29
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