djchameleon

A few points, one just because we might be getting involved doesn't mean we are putting boots on the ground. The Navy is going to do what they do and send off strikes.

Two, the benefits of getting involved is to protect our allies/interests in the immediate area that may have to deal with similar attacks. Also I guess you think it's perfectly fine to just kill men, women and children with nerve gas.

Three, as I mentioned earlier americans aren't being put at risk to die for anything right now. No boots are going to be on the ground also they did sign up for the military. So even if that does change later on it's not like they should be shocked or surprised. Just joining the military in the first place is putting themselves at risk that they may have to get involved with something that they don't agree with.

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butthead aka 216

1 already know no boots on the ground


2 lol @ u. you must not care about literally thousands of dead ppl throughout the world bein subjected to death and torture by their own goverments. sorry using ur logic

3 so your main point in this is that american troos wouldnt be on the ground, somethin i already know? umm ok. yea lets send troops and piss off russia and more of the middle east. doesnt sound good to me

djchameleon

the thousands of dead people throughout the world aren't being killed by chemical attacks near countries that are our allies though.

You keep saying you know that troops won't be on the ground yet in your next sentence you say let's send troops and piss off Russia/more of the middle east.

The middle east is going to be pissed off regardless of what we do but in my opinion it's better to DO something than to just sit off on the sidelines doing nothing with our thumbs up our asses.

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butthead aka 216

i was clearly sarcastic i thought when i said to piss off russia


so if the middle east is goin to be pissed off anyways, u want to send high powered weaponry over there??

so we would be arming groups of ppl who generally hate our country. i would like to prevent a future conflict where our own troops are bein killed with weapons that we provided to the enemy if possible

to my knowledge syria hasnt attacked any of our allies have they??

TheBig3

The only benefit I see to us getting involved is that without chemical weapons, it will take the Administration in Syria longer to kill its enemies. A prolonged war there saps resources in places like Yemen and Afghanistan.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/op...yria.html?_r=0

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Burning Down

My International Relations prof is making us deconstruct and analyze this for Monday's class. I don't even know where to begin *sigh*

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very surreal and jarring to see this

djchameleon

Interesting change of events.

Kerry makes an off the cuff comment and Syria/Russia jump all over it!




Then Putin decides to write an OP Ed piece or get someone to write it for him to make America look like crap. He always wants to offer up Russia like it's the super power alternative to America.

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butthead aka 216

i saw that video a few days ago and a lot of other sniper videos of people catchin em in the face and stuff. i dont know what i think about syria right now but from watchin all of these syria war videos i can say im tired of hearing allahu akbar lol