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Activists: Syrian Rebels take Christian Village

CanadaJohn said:
Good morning Lady P. I seriously doubt this administration listens to anyone other than themselves.
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polgara said:
:agree: And it shows, too! :thumbdown:
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Doncha get the sense that Obama might be going through the motions on this just to give him an excuse for inaction so he's got someone to blame when the M.E. goes all to hell even further?
... despite Kerry's end-of-week ultimatum ... not the 1st time him and Obama are allegedly in disagreement.

Anyway, I'm guessing he won't do much of anything if Congress says no.
 
bubbabgone said:
Doncha get the sense that Obama might be going through the motions on this just to give him an excuse for inaction so he's got someone to blame when the M.E. goes all to hell even further?
... despite Kerry's end-of-week ultimatum ... not the 1st time him and Obama are allegedly in disagreement.

Anyway, I'm guessing he won't do much of anything if Congress says no.
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Good morning, Bubba! :2wave:

If he is foolish enough to do what he feels like doing, even though few except perhaps Valerie Jarrett, Kerry, Hagel, and McCain agree with him, then he should be prepared for the fallout from the American people! The people want action taken now on domestic problems, which are piling up to make quite an ugly stack! Enough is enough! :thumbdown:
 
polgara said:
Good morning, Bubba! :2wave:

If he is foolish enough to do what he feels like doing, even though few except perhaps Valerie Jarrett, Kerry, Hagel, and McCain agree with him, then he should be prepared for the fallout from the American people! The people want action taken now on domestic problems, which are piling up to make quite an ugly stack! Enough is enough! :thumbdown:
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I agree with that completely. We have huge domestic troubles that are far more pressing to our national security than Syria's war on terror in their country half a world away.
 
TheNextEra said:
Depends on how you look at things. Are you of the mindset that we should have gotten involved with Germany when they were killing Jewish people? I only use that example, because it's an example of how things can escalate when a dictator (or rebels) are allowed to do something inhuman without consequences.

I'm of the mindset that we should not be the world police and if the U.N. authorizes any action to be taken, it should be taken by all of the U.N. and not just the U.S.
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Assad isn't Hitler. Assad is not trying to exterminate an entire population. There's no evidence that Assad even used the weapons. So the rebels are beheading people and lining them up and shooting them. One Syrian force killed a member of Assad's military, cut out the dead mean's heart and ate it. Why are you pro-beheadings? Why is eating someone's heart hunky dory to you?Why is that considered acceptable behavior to you? The only logical thing is that you're a member of Al-Qaeda or perhaps your a socio path.
 
reinoe said:
Assad isn't Hitler. Assad is not trying to exterminate an entire population. There's no evidence that Assad even used the weapons. So the rebels are beheading people and lining them up and shooting them. One Syrian force killed a member of Assad's military, cut out the dead mean's heart and ate it. Why are you pro-beheadings? Why is eating someone's heart hunky dory to you?Why is that considered acceptable behavior to you? The only logical thing is that you're a member of Al-Qaeda or perhaps your a socio path.
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When you can back up anything you've said about me with quotes, I'll respond to them. Until then, all you have is empty rhetoric and typical lies.
 
reinoe said:
Assad isn't Hitler. Assad is not trying to exterminate an entire population. There's no evidence that Assad even used the weapons. So the rebels are beheading people and lining them up and shooting them. One Syrian force killed a member of Assad's military, cut out the dead mean's heart and ate it. Why are you pro-beheadings? Why is eating someone's heart hunky dory to you?Why is that considered acceptable behavior to you? The only logical thing is that you're a member of Al-Qaeda or perhaps your a socio path.
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Anyone that is on the side of the insurgents and against president Assad do in fact support these actions you mention.
 
TheNextEra said:
When you can back up anything you've said about me with quotes, I'll respond to them. Until then, all you have is empty rhetoric and typical lies.
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You're defending the Rebels. That says a lot about your state of mind. Have you ever killed small animals as child?
 
I don't know much about Syria but... is there any reason to think either side is "better" than the other? Aren't both sides "bad"?
 
Verax said:
I don't know much about Syria but... is there any reason to think either side is "better" than the other? Aren't both sides "bad"?
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Both sides are bad but one is much much worse. Did you here about the battle this weekend in which president Assad's forces fought against the Islamic extremists to protect a Christian village but were overwhelmed and had to withdraw allowing the city to fall to the extremists that have killed many and the fate of many is not yet known?
 
reinoe said:
You're defending the Rebels. That says a lot about your state of mind. Have you ever killed small animals as child?
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Show me where I have defended their actions with quotes. Go right ahead slick.
 
reinoe said:
Assad isn't Hitler. Assad is not trying to exterminate an entire population. There's no evidence that Assad even used the weapons. So the rebels are beheading people and lining them up and shooting them. One Syrian force killed a member of Assad's military, cut out the dead mean's heart and ate it. Why are you pro-beheadings? Why is eating someone's heart hunky dory to you?Why is that considered acceptable behavior to you? The only logical thing is that you're a member of Al-Qaeda or perhaps your a socio path.
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Greetings, reinoe. :2wave:

I have to give points to Assad for attempting to help the Christian village that was attacked by the rebels who were slaughtering the villagers! His was not a usual response in that part of the world that hates everything Christian, and I applaud him for that!! Everyday, the rebels are showing their true cowardly colors, though, and we are supposed to suddenly agree with them? Sorry, it doesn't work that way! They are thugs, and we don't like thugs in America! It does, however, indicate that the rebels were probably behind the chemical weapons attack! And this administration insists we should blame Assad? :thumbdown:
 
polgara said:
Good morning, Bubba! :2wave:

If he is foolish enough to do what he feels like doing, even though few except perhaps Valerie Jarrett, Kerry, Hagel, and McCain agree with him, then he should be prepared for the fallout from the American people! The people want action taken now on domestic problems, which are piling up to make quite an ugly stack! Enough is enough! :thumbdown:
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... regarding Obama's attention to domestic problems, be careful what you ask for ... relative to that let me repeat myself from a couple of days ago...

bubbabgone said:
Here's what has become clear over the last 4+ years and brought into crystal clarity with Benghazi & Syria serving as evidence.
People are starting to apply the terms incompetent & unqualified to Obama but that's only partly true.
As a foreign policy President it's 100% accurate ... but he didn't run as a foreign policy president and never wanted or intended to be one.
His interest was and remains domestic policy. His goal is to Europeanize the USA and he's really good at that.
Obamacare ? Good example. Huge progress toward European Socialism.
Policies that keep the economy and employment growth weak so as to increase the dependent class leading to perpetuation of his Party which leads to more of the same.
Institutionalizing a dependency that'll be damn near impossible to reverse.
This is the kind of thing he was trained to do and he's doing it really well.
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bubbabgone said:
... regarding Obama's attention to domestic problems, be careful what you ask for ... relative to that let me repeat myself from a couple of days ago...
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So our choices boil down to either interfering in other sovereign countries' affairs, or we watch as he carries out his agenda to make America equal to any third-world hellhole? :thumbdown: Americans are patient, but not forever, because our stubbornness in adhering to our Constitution overrides everything else! The sooner everyone involved understands this, the better! We still are a beacon for others, or the illegal aliens wouldn't be sneaking in here by the millions! They need to understand this, or go back to where they came from!
 
polgara said:
So our choices boil down to either interfering in other sovereign countries' affairs, or we
watch as he carries out his agenda to make America equal to any third-world hellhole?
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:thumbdown: Americans are patient, but not forever, because our stubbornness in adhering to our Constitution overrides everything else! The sooner everyone involved understands this, the better! We still are a beacon for others, or the illegal aliens wouldn't be sneaking in here by the millions! They need to understand this, or go back to where they came from!
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Well, Pol ... if you read a lot of posters here, they either don't care what he does they'll support him, or they know what he's doing and will go along with the deception because they agree with his goal..
 
bubbabgone said:
Doncha get the sense that Obama might be going through the motions on this just to give him an excuse for inaction so he's got someone to blame when the M.E. goes all to hell even further?
... despite Kerry's end-of-week ultimatum ... not the 1st time him and Obama are allegedly in disagreement.

Anyway, I'm guessing he won't do much of anything if Congress says no.
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I don't disagree that Obama will do nothing if congress says no - but for me, it's just a sign that Obama isn't a leader. When the British Parliament said no, Obama was out on a limb by himself and he was paralized. I think he wanted to do it, but only with others by his side.
 
polgara said:
So our choices boil down to either interfering in other sovereign countries' affairs, or we watch as he carries out his agenda to make America equal to any third-world hellhole?
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That opinion is becoming more wide-spread and is now talked about in serious media.

When the educated voter talked of Obama's general ignorance on the economy, foreign policy, etc., it wasn't even hinted that these policies might be deliberate. Now the the idea is gaining credibility that his policies have been well thought out and deliberate. Norman Podhoretz: Obama's Successful Foreign Failure - WSJ.com
 
Grant said:
That opinion is becoming more wide-spread and is now talked about in serious media.

When the educated voter talked of Obama's general ignorance on the economy, foreign policy, etc., it wasn't even hinted that these policies might be deliberate. Now the the idea is gaining credibility that his policies have been well thought out and deliberate. Norman Podhoretz: Obama's Successful Foreign Failure - WSJ.com
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Good afternoon, Grant. :2wave:

At one time, anyone suggesting such a thing would have been called a delusional racist in need of their meds, and that would have been one of the less offensive descriptions! Now it is becoming mainstream? And many here believe he is the messiah? What has happened to this Country when the POTUS is believed by many around the world to hate everything America stands for? Maybe Reverend Wright and others were correct after all! :eek:
 
polgara said:
What has happened to this Country when the POTUS is believed by many around the world to hate everything America stands for?
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It means that we are in a decline much like the Roman Empire.
 
j-mac said:
It means that we are in a decline much like the Roman Empire.
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:agree: All the ingredients seem to be there, but we're too young a Country to go into decline quietly! America's spirit, for the most part, is still strong, and we have lived through worse. Countries around the world liked what they saw in America, and copied us. We can't give up now because some would like to see us fail.

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." Douglas MacArthur

Good evening, j-mac. :2wave:
 
polgara said:
:agree: All the ingredients seem to be there, but we're too young a Country to go into decline quietly! America's spirit, for the most part, is still strong, and we have lived through worse. Countries around the world liked what they saw in America, and copied us. We can't give up now because some would like to see us fail.

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." Douglas MacArthur

Good evening, j-mac. :2wave:
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Hey Polgara,

This was a good show this weekend....

 
TheNextEra said:
Show me where I have defended their actions with quotes. Go right ahead slick.
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If your advocating an attack on president Assad you are supporting the rebels. The US has been training, arming and giving other material support to the Islamic extremist insurgents (rebels as you guys like to call them when your on their side, and as I referred to them when your not) since the beginning, helping them in their attempt to overthrow president Assad. That's what you desire as well, right?
 
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