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Old 04-07-2017, 03:20 AM  
Paul Markham
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Cam the West stand back and allow people like Assad to use WMDs?

And if so does that stretch to Nuclear Weapons?

IS is backed by many Muslims and Muslim countries, they didn't just appear fully armed without a lot of financial backing.

Can a moderate leader rule countries like Syria, given the deep divides withing its tribal culture?

After losing the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, will the West lose this one? Losing a war = the country not reverting back to type or worse after the troops leave.

We must stop thinking of Western solutions to ME problems. Hamas is condemning the people the Gaza strip to brutal reprisals because it will not stop firing missiles into Israel. Israel has no intention of stopping its expansion into the West Bank. After that where next?

These people still believe in Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel and all the other bullshit in their bibles for the only purpose of military expansion. God tells them to do it. Or their tribal leaders tell them God told him to tell them to do it.

We either pull out and buy the oil from the winners or occupy the ME. Which is maybe what Russia will do and suck up the casualties.
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