Thread: Syria

Originally Posted by AKPogue

Who said it is going to piss me off. It is a lot more then just the Shia and the Sunnis. The Kurds and the Central Government are starting to stand off against each other and are looking like they are going to battle each other conventionally with artillery, infantry, and tanks. Biggest problem is the Kurds have been really working the Turks for support which Baghdad hasn't helped by pissing off the Turks. Baghdad is heavily influenced by the Iranians. This whole mess is going to involve more then just locally. Would be different if they didn't have so much black stuff in the ground but I have a feeling the Middle East will be the Balkans of this century and are going to touch off something way worse then we have seen recently.

Interesting, the Turks really took it pretty hard to the Kurds in the South of Turkey with the PPK shit.... man things change fast. I guess it solves there problem of what to do with Turkish kurds and gives them a friend with more in common.

Kurds would whip the Central gov't, they got their shit a little more together and have been looking for a homeland since forever.

Originally Posted by ArmadaBC

Interesting, the Turks really took it pretty hard to the Kurds in the South of Turkey with the PPK shit.... man things change fast. I guess it solves there problem of what to do with Turkish kurds and gives them a friend with more in common.

Kurds would whip the Central gov't, they got their shit a little more together and have been looking for a homeland since forever.

Problem I see if the Kurds whip the Central Government is then the Iranians jump in and then everyone else picks sides and jumps in. This could turn into a huge deal really quickly!!

Going back to the OP two journalists, a Dutch and British photographer were held captive by Jihadi's in Syria. Apparently its a who's who of international Jihadis....that is going to be tough for whomever ends up running the show.

Tunisia is in a world of trouble with the Salafis, a small but super violent Islamic group. Just so we know what we are talking about they attacked the red crescent. I mean shit the FARC runs around the jungle for like 30 years has no problem kidnapping and blowing shit up but they still play nice with the red cross. The Germans who are kinda spooked over the Turkish people dealio think Salafis are the fastest growing movement in the world.

There is no other way to say this but the main problem with the Middle East is most of the average people are poor and stupid. Not inherently stupid but deeply uneducated stupid with no real possibility of changing either of those two things. Throw in a religion that to be frank has some issues with modernity, like say fucking over 50% of your population and a certain western nation that shows up every 20 years to really stir the pot and disaster just flows into the region.

The reason for the belief that Syria may have small pox is because in the Iran-Iraq war Saddam largely held off the Iranian counter push into Iraq with chemical/biological weapons, I don't remember which. Essentially we helped Iraq and the Russians helped Iran through Syria who up until recently was Iran's best friend, the Russians absolutely helped the Syrian's fit chem/bio weapons to scud missiles and they absolutely helped them start up chem/bio production so small pox ain't that big a leap.

I read through this tread and have watched some TV coverage today.
My take. WE NEED TO STAY THE FUCK OUT OF THIS
Let the bordering countries in the Region handle it.
We are not the Worlds police. Just shut up and prepare for whatever replaces it

Originally Posted by MTT

I read through this tread and have watched some TV coverage today.
My take. WE NEED TO STAY THE FUCK OUT OF THIS
Let the bordering countries in the Region handle it.
We are not the Worlds police. Just shut up and prepare for whatever replaces it

We don't have an option to stay out of this. If this was some place that didn't have the black stuff that runs the world then we could. Unfortunately it does.

wow. so much brainpower in this thread must be turning a hamster wheel somewhere.

Originally Posted by AKPogue

Who said it is going to piss me off. It is a lot more then just the Shia and the Sunnis. The Kurds and the Central Government are starting to stand off against each other and are looking like they are going to battle each other conventionally with artillery, infantry, and tanks. Biggest problem is the Kurds have been really working the Turks for support which Baghdad hasn't helped by pissing off the Turks. Baghdad is heavily influenced by the Iranians. This whole mess is going to involve more then just locally. Would be different if they didn't have so much black stuff in the ground but I have a feeling the Middle East will be the Balkans of this century and are going to touch off something way worse then we have seen recently.

Agree 100%.

Originally Posted by spook

wow. so much brainpower in this thread must be turning a hamster wheel somewhere.

Care to offer anything of substance?

nope. i'm just watching the wheel go round and round.

But how is that going to improve your golf swing?!

Originally Posted by 13

But how is that going to improve your golf swing?!

can't play 4 hours a day every day and be responsible. rest is also an integral part of improvement.

CIA finding signed by Obama, date unknown:

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/id...20801?irpc=932

Probably cash, commo equipment, and a few highly motivated "advisers" whose motto is de oppresso liber.

Originally Posted by machschnell

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=32010

Looks familiar

This seems to be going well.

"Syria: Iran vows it will not allow Assad to fall"

Originally Posted by Tuckerman

This seems to be going well.

"Syria: Iran vows it will not allow Assad to fall"

I hope they try... If the Iranians want to bog themselves down in Syria and waste a fuckload of $$$ from their war chest in the middle of economic sanctions, who are we to stop them?

They are really ramping up the News coverage today. Pictures of maimed children, soon to come dead women and kids.

War sucks.

Remember how we won WWII B-17's fire bombing Dresden and Berlin

But there were no Women or kids in those cities Right?

Originally Posted by MTT

They are really ramping up the News coverage today. Pictures of maimed children, soon to come dead women and kids.

War sucks.

Remember how we won WWII B-17's fire bombing Dresden and Berlin

But there were no Women or kids in those cities Right?

Word. The reach of mass media back then was super limited, though. Not many "embedded" journalists to plaster images & video on YouTube for all to see...