09-04-2013, 09:04 AM
(09-04-2013, 02:15 AM)aussiefriend Wrote:(09-03-2013, 08:18 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: What about my friend aussie?
She's been calling for a major show of force by the US for quite a while now.
I never said that. Don't put words in my mouth. You are quite the provocateur HoTD.
I may be provocative occasionally, but I'm not putting words in your mouth.
You didn't say, "I support a sea-launched missile or a bomb being dropped on a Syrian governmental military base"; that's true. I didn't say that you did. I said that you've been crying for a major show of force for some time. It wasn't a jab, it was a statement of fact.
You said this:
'aussiefriend Wrote:Bashar Al Assad has gone way too far way long ago. When I witnessed the butchered skulls of infants on youtube I knew that this guy would do anything to stay in power. He needs to be removed today. I don't know why the powers that be have not done this. I am not privy to this information. Has Syria got no oil? Take him out.
The immediate physical removal of an elected military-guarded leader is a greater show of force by the "powers that be" than a warning strike against a military base. The former is, in fact, what you have been advocating. You are not alone in taking that stance and I understand that position, as I've stated before. I just don't share your view.
You've been so provocative in arguing in favor of immediate power intervention as to have used Iraq as an example, insisted that Syria has "no" healthcare, characterized people who disagree with your viewpoint as terribly fucking stupid and/or supporters of Assad, and implied that you care more about human life than those who don't support engagement in a Middle Eastern civil war at this time.
There's no arguing that taking out a country's leader is a major show of force in itself; requiring physical intervention and likely bloodshed and the loss of loyalist soldiers' lives during the operation, aussie (even if by "taking him out" you really meant trying Assad for alleged war crimes, as you later contended).
Well, that is...unless your vision of "taking him out" entails tricking him into an unguarded swim at the lake, stealing his clothes, and tickling him until he giddily throws his arms into the air and agrees to be "taken out" of Syria to the Hague to stand trial. IDK, while it sounds nice, seems unlikely that the Syrian loyalist army or Assad would fall for such a peaceful little power play. IMO.