Syria and UN Security Council Decision

[WildCat]

Remember that delegation of useful idiots that went to Syria? This is their appearance on Syrian state TV.

Strap yourself in for a one-way ticket to Looney Town.

Clearly it's all been mistranslated, Memri is an organization created by the Mossad to trick us all.

 

[The Fool]

Clearly it's all been mistranslated, Memri is an organization created by the Mossad to trick us all.

Do you believe Memri is non-partisan?

 

[Childlike Empress]

Clearly it's all been mistranslated, Memri is an organization created by the Mossad to trick us all.

Next time click the link before bothering us with antisemitic conspiracy theories. Mrs. McKinney says what she always says - in plain English.

 

[Childlike Empress]

It seems like Erdogan surrendered and re-opened the border crossings as demanded just in time to serve ISIL's ultimatum.

 

[trustbutverify]

Next time click the link before bothering us with antisemitic conspiracy theories. Mrs. McKinney says what she always says - in plain English.

So does her dear old dad.

McKinney's loss was a rejection by voters in both parties of her controversial profile, which included support for Arab causes and a suggestion that Bush knew in advance of the Sept. 11 attacks. An inflammatory remark by her father on an Atlanta TV broadcast Monday may have been the final blow. State Rep. Billy McKinney said his daughter's tough fight was because "Jews have bought everybody. Jews. J-e-w-s.

 

[The Fool]

So does her dear old dad.

Just the sort of thing you want family spouting when you are trying to get elected somewhere.

reminds me of Mel (my dads even worse) Gibson.

Thanks Dad.....

 

[Childlike Empress]

Quite interesting and extensive OPCW press conference today, on the initial findings on the ground and how to proceed:

 

[LSSBB]

Quite interesting and extensive OPCW press conference today, on the initial findings on the ground and how to proceed:

Yeah, we certainly wouldn't want to think he is capable of hiding any.

 

[Childlike Empress]

I guess none of us missed that the OPCW received the Nobel Peace Prize. I'll leave it to your guessing if that is a follow-up joke to the 2009 decision or just a politically correct way to avoid giving it to Lavrov. Closely related, the most interesting news about that incident which almost started WWIII is an interview Oksana Boyko did with Angela Kane - worth watching but again i'll leave figuring out the WTF moments to yourselves. Boyko wasn't on my radar as an RT journalist (see signature for my favorite), but I found digging through the recent output that she is quite brilliant. If she is confronted with someone who doesn't try to sell her BS, she kind of reveals the "bias" we all have, but still makes an excellent interviewer, like in this piece with Peter Maurer, the president of the international committee of the Red Cross:

 

[Virus]

A video has recently surfaced of what is thought to be Hezbollah terrorists executing wounded civilians in Syria.

 

[The Fool]

A video has recently surfaced of what is thought to be Hezbollah terrorists executing wounded civilians in Syria.

Has it been confirmed who they are....?

Pack of *********....

 

[Childlike Empress]

Conflicts of interest in the Syria debate

An analysis of the defense industry ties of experts and think tanks who commented on military intervention

[...] The following report documents the industry ties of [Stephen] Hadley, 21 other media commentators, and seven think tanks that participated in the media debate around Syria. Like Hadley, these individuals and organizations have strong ties to defense contractors and other defense- and foreign policy-focused firms with a vested interest in the Syria debate, but they were presented to their audiences with a veneer of expertise and independence, as former military officials, retired diplomats, and independent think tanks.

The report offers a new look at an issue raised by David Barstow’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series on the role military analysts played in promoting the Bush Administration’s narrative on Iraq. In addition to exposing coordination with the Pentagon, Barstow found that many cable news analysts had industry ties that were not disclosed on air.

If the recent debate around Syria is any guide, media outlets have done very little to address the gaps in disclosure and abuses of the public trust that Barstow exposed. Some analysts have stayed the same, others are new, and the issues and range of opinion are different. But the media continues to present former military and government officials as venerated experts without informing the public of their industry ties – the personal financial interests that may be shaping their opinions of what is in the national interest. [...]

 

[Virus]

American aid to the rebels is a pittance compared to what Iran, Russia and Hezbollah terrorists are lavishing on the regime.

 

[The Fool]

American aid to the rebels is a pittance compared to what Iran, Russia and Hezbollah terrorists are lavishing on the regime.

what are the figures? (roughly)

 

[Virus]

what are the figures? (roughly)

Billions vs millions.

Russia is printing the Syrian currency.

 

[Virus]

Assad deliberately starving civilians.

“We won’t allow them to be nourished in order to kill us,” a 24 year-old member of the National Defense Force, the Alawite-Shia paramilitary group trained and funded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps as the Syrian answer to the Basij, told the Wall Street Journal on October 2.

A war crime.

 

[Darth Rotor]

Assad deliberately starving civilians.
A war crime.

Is this
collective punishment,
a siege,
or simply standard operations in a civil war?

As this is not one nation versus another, but a nation against itself, do the "rules of war" actually apply?

Discuss.

 

[McHrozni]

As this is not one nation versus another, but a nation against itself, do the "rules of war" actually apply?

Discuss.

There is nothing to discuss. The rules of war are rules of war, not rules of some wars but not others. Nothing implies they only apply in international wars or they wouldn't apply in civil wars.

McHrozni

 

[Virus]

Watching Arabs in a heated argument is always funny.

 

[trustbutverify]

Born of Israeli semen??!

Looks like the kid gloves are off. At least they can all agree that Jews are the decedents of apes and pigs.