Syria: mustard gas used

[charby]

I was listening to NPR this afternoon and they had the BBC news on and it said the rebels used mustard gas on a village.

Just did a Google search and in the last 60-90 minutes it started showing up in different world news website.

So I guess how long until we got troops on the ground?

[Jocassee]

Maybe we can just call him Little Boots, because now he's saying that just a few boots -- 100 in all, for 50 special forces -- will be going.

From Ace of Spades.

[roo_ster]

I was listening to NPR this afternoon and they had the BBC news on and it said the rebels used mustard gas on a village.

Just did a Google search and in the last 60-90 minutes it started showing up in different world news website.

So I guess how long until we got troops on the ground?

Supporting which group?  I would suggest supporting Assad against the rebs and ISIS would be the way to go if we absolutely had to go in.

Or do we stand around and just let all comers shoot at us?

[vaskidmark]

Or do we stand around and just let all comers shoot at us?

Shhh!  You are not supposed to leak the Joint Chiefs' plan.

stay safe.

[brimic]

I suggest that we sit on the sidelines and let the russians annihilate the "jv team" along with the finest equipment 'merkin taxpayer money has provided for them. If obama wants to get involved, I suggest he put on his wetsuit, go over there and have a beer with putin and isis then report back how that worked out for him.

[French G.]

We really need to bail out for awhile. The closer the airliner gets to looking like a bombing the less we can count on russian restraint and discrete targeting. How effing dumb to you have to be to claim responsibility for that anyway. ISIS pvt. Pyle, you just signed your own death warrant!

[Scout26]

First, since everyone has a finger on their nose and looking at everyone else we're not sure who crossed the angry pink (or is dark mauve?) line.

And here how he'll be keeping that "No Boots on the Ground" promise:

[Blakenzy]

 

We really need to bail out for awhile. The closer the airliner gets to looking like a bombing the less we can count on russian restraint and discrete targeting. How effing dumb to you have to be to claim responsibility for that anyway. ISIS pvt. Pyle, you just signed your own death warrant!

I would suggest bailing out definitely. The US would be better off concentrating on being THE USA, Constitutional Republic not "MERICA, Secret Agent of International Ambition and World Control.

Current foreign policy antics are going to get us all killed, seriously. FYI the Russians have more fallout shelters than we do. Build one yourself and you will be labeled "domestic trrist" (that's the bad sort), the good trrists are over in Syria, enjoying tax payer financing, interesting US weapons tech, spec ops advisory and soon to come F15 air cover).

[Hawkmoon]

Or do we stand around and just let all comers shoot at us?

That sounds like a typical Obama strategy.

[230RN]

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1. a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly” or "Obama strategy."

[Mannlicher]

ya know, I just dont trust ANY info coming out of Syria.  God alone knows who is saying what, and for what reason.  There seems to be  about zero 'proof' to back up any claims.

[MechAg94]

I would suggest bailing out definitely. The US would be better off concentrating on being THE USA, Constitutional Republic not "MERICA, Secret Agent of International Ambition and World Control.

Current foreign policy antics are going to get us all killed, seriously. FYI the Russians have more fallout shelters than we do. Build one yourself and you will be labeled "domestic trrist" (that's the bad sort), the good trrists are over in Syria, enjoying tax payer financing, interesting US weapons tech, spec ops advisory and soon to come F15 air cover).

On your FYI, how many of our nuclear weapons are actually online and ready to launch?  I hear mention occasionally that we have been reducing the number each year.

On the other side of that, if Russia did a full launch on us, would Obama even respond in kind or just refuse to make a decision and let them hit us? 

[brimic]

On your FYI, how many of our nuclear weapons are actually online and ready to launch?  I hear mention occasionally that we have been reducing the number each year.

On the other side of that, if Russia did a full launch on us, would Obama even respond in kind or just refuse to make a decision and let them hit us? 

That would just be the Russians doing his dirty work for him.
Its not like all of the important people in government and media and other 'critical personnel' don't already have an elaborate and well stocked system of bunkers set up already.

Like I said earlier- we have no business in syria. Whatever kind of chickenshit game obama is trying to play is going to hurt us in a big way.