Mosin in Syria
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Lebanon, Iraq, Gaza, Yemen and now Syria. It's obvious the real problem in ME are the Arabs themselves, not Israel. The day will come when Saudi Arabia & Iran will go head to head with each other and destroy the whole region. Those two have been on a collision course since Day 1.
Ah Syria. So let me see. We have a ruthless dictator who used the military and a semi-modern airforce whom, among other things, appears to have dropped sarin gas on his own people who are trying to arrange his retirement.
Then we have the opposition, which while it contains some legitimate opposition political types, now seems to be made up primarily of Hezbollah foreign fighters, equipped and ideologically led by Iran and Al Quaeda, who are hoping the government that replaces the secular (yet evil) Assad will be an Islamic Republic in pursuit of the global Caliphate.
All the while the Christian minority and unaffiliated populace are being slaughtered in the crossfire.
Hmm... tough to decide who to back, isn't it? Of course, Russia backs Assad due to the very favourable deal he cut them, exchanging cold war era munitions and currency for deep water port access for the Russian mediterranean fleet. Anything else you hear is BS - Russia supports Assad entirely out of self-interest.
Frankly, if it were not so dysfunctional today, this is the type of mission a 1950's-era UN would/should have intervened in. Of course, Russia would veto it.
Now if only NATO weren't led by a democrat looking to pay for entitlements for the unemployed democrat-voting masses. Maybe something could be done to save the lives of those caught in between
That about covers it, there are no "good guys" in Syria!
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Someone is going to eat a nuke and my money is it wont be Syria.
...Lets hope it doesn't come to that. My skin did crawl when Russia became involved (supplying LR missiles) and the Israeli Minster of Defence eluded to these positions/ alternatives publicly with a very stern/ concerned aire about him. Israel has taken to "mowing the grass" in Palestine whenever attacks became to brazen, but I haven't heard Israeli Ministers carry this tone since the '80's.
