69 5 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Oh yes, one of those serious topics. So, Syria. I see on Telegraph "Britain is planning to join forces with America and launch military action against Syria within days in response to the gas attack believed to have been carried out by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces against his own people." Where's this one going to end up I wonder? Hopefully they won't be too stretched, what with Gibralta to deal with as well. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 We do like to get ourselves into some tangles!! UK and US Forces becoming involved will do nothing but bring us even more dislike and suspicion from middle eastern people. Hezbollah of Lebanon are involved on the Syrian govt side, they hate the west already.....Iraq has been a roaring success and it doesn't look like Afghanistan is gonna end anytime soon. Why do we keep getting involved in these things? Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Need to use all that military equipment so more can be ordered! Link to post Share on other sites
stemik 14 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 It is difficult to stand by and watch the atrocities happening. Of course someone has to do something about it, as usual it falls on the US and UK... I have brothers still in the military, i am hoping they don't put troops on the ground. Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Why the UK? And not France, Germany, etc etc........ Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Canada... Today's funny... Seriously though... Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I say stay out of it and let "them" continue to do what they have done for millennia. Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Yes, Canada. And Switzerland too. Link to post Share on other sites
stemik 14 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Why the UK? And not France, Germany, etc etc........ The French would surrender before they started, the Germans...well they like starting wars Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 They are the only ones with the morals to do something about it. Obviously! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 The time of empire building is over. The UK has enough problems at home that would be better solved before sending our young men and women over to die in a place where they aren't wanted. Isn't this what the UN was meant to be for? Sorting out international disputes? Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Yes, I'd like to see the UN handle stuff like this, if it is generally agreed that intervention is needed in cases like this. I'd also like to see some actual evidence of who it was that used chemical weapons, before the rest of the world goes in and starts killing people. I suspect I will be disappointed on both counts, though. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Hose'em down with quad 50s and let god sort'em out. No, I don't really mean it, but fer fark's sake I sometimes get pretty close... Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Count us in! We've never missed a war yet. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Wherever the US goes.....the UK and Oz are not far behind Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Where's Tony Blair when we need him?! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 He's the UN Envoy to the Middle East!! His mandate is to promote peace and avoid armed conflict!! Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 And the Daily Mail today tells us this about him As West debated air strikes on Syria, where was peace envoy Blair? On a yacht in the MediterraneanTony Blair jetted to the Med as news broke of chemical attacks Middle East 'Special Envoy' visited Saint Tropez and luxury yachts Blair was 'having meetings with various people,' spokesman said So it's probably not true, but..... Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Wherever the US goes.....the UK and Oz are not far behind Canada used to be like that too... oddly we told the US to stuff it when they asked us to go to Iraq. We definitely went balls deep in Afghanistan though. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 UN Peace Envoy to the Middle East, Tony Blair, has this to say about Syria... "Meanwhile, former prime minister Tony Blair has warned enduring controversy over the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 should not stop politicians from helping the Syrian people. Avoiding military intervention could result in "a nightmare scenario" for the West in the Middle East, he wrote in the Times." Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Russia has warned of "catastrophic consequences" for Syria and other regions within the Middle East if military intervention is taken in response to alleged chemical attacks last week. In a statement, foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said: "Attempts to bypass the Security Council, once again to create artificial groundless excuses for a military intervention in the region are fraught with new suffering in Syria and catastrophic consequences for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa." Iran has also since warned against foreign military intervention in Syria after US Secretary of State, John Kerry, last night accused Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime of deliberately unleashing chemical weapons on its own citizens in a statement. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Abbas Araqchi warned there would be "perilous consequences" for the region if a military attack is carried out, according to the Guardian. Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Russia has warned of "catastrophic consequences" for Syria and other regions within the Middle East if military intervention is taken in response to alleged chemical attacks last week. As opposed to the picnic the Syrian people have enjoyed so far? Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Hey, I'm just the reporter! Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Don't kill the messenger..........yet Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Russia has warned of "catastrophic consequences" for Syria and other regions within the Middle East if military intervention is taken in response to alleged chemical attacks last week. As opposed to the picnic the Syrian people have enjoyed so far? Yes..........it would probably mean that the Lebanese, Israeli and Iranian people would then enjoy that same picnic. The Jordanians, the Turks and if it spreads to Turkey.....its got a toe-hold into Europe......Egypt could expand its craziness. Get involved and the conflict spreads........we'd (the royal we, westerners) be fighting everyone else, who were also fighting....everyone else. The Muslims against the infidels, the jews against the Muslims, the Suuni's against the Shiite's and all of them attacking the western armies whether overtly or covertly......it would be a huge clusterf##k. Intervention hasn't really made the Iraqi or the Afghani peoples lives a picnic up till now, no reason to think it'd help the Syrian people Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Doesn't sound like a fun scenario that. Link to post Share on other sites
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