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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHallelujah! WE WON!
Oh yay! It's all good about Syria!
Kerry/Obama asks Syria to turn over chemical weapons.
Putin steps in and agrees to push this solution.
Syria agrees.
The sun comes out and birds sing.
Meanwhile in the real world, not one weapon has actually moved. (But we just know that Assad & Putin have pure hearts and will keep their word.)
And the Syrian government forces can continue to attack the 'rebels' and kill anybody that gets in their way which seems to be anything that moves in front of them.
The rebels will continue to fight the government and each other. They also will kill anybody that they think is in their way. If they have some kind of chemical weapons, which is not out of the question, who cares?
Syrians are still getting killed right and left or they are displaced into refugee camps.
But WE WON!
Nobody won anything. This is not an effing game with a scoreboard.
EVERYBODY HAS LOST!
The Syrians are literally losing everything.
The nations of the world have lost credibility by huffing and puffing about conventions and laws. Meanwhile they ignore their own complicity in letting all types of weapons loose.
People have apparently lost their minds declaring some kind of victory in the face of the abject horror still on display.
BUT WE WON!
Think about it.
Then think about the Syrian people. They are the only ones who matter, and the only thing they may have won is one less way to die.
Atman
(31,464 posts)...than dying at the hands of rebels. I'm sure the Syrian people are relieved.
Arrowhead2k1
(2,121 posts)This was not Obama's finest hour. Far from it...
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Seriously?
The Syrian conflict is all good now?
Please read the OP again.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)the US interest that threatened to draw the US deeper into the conflict appears to have been resolved diplomatically, rather than militarily; but you are right ... why won't my headache go away; I took an aspirin 2 minutes ago?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)the US interest that threatened to draw the US deeper into the conflict appears to have been resolved diplomatically, rather than militarily; but you are right ... why won't my headache go away; I took an aspirin 2 minutes ago?
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)even still.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)Too many people want this war to happen. They'll find a way; I've got faith in them.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)America's one-percenters might as well be cannibals. They have to eat something while they're camping at Bohemian Grove. Dancing around that giant owl works up an appetite.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)Unfortunately, the few who do want it have way more "speech" than the rest of us.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)Neo-Compassion!
Oh, and Obama sucks - thank Putin!
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)It is hugely good that President Obama won't be announcing the start of World War III tonight!
Give us a break, OK? We can't solve all the World's problems with good old American air power. We shouldn't even try.
Just let us have a few years of peace, how's about it?
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)And as far as a few years of peace?
That's relative. We still have troops dying in Afghanistan and that's peace? Seriously?
My how quickly we forget.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Our President should have brought them all home in 2009, instead of sending thirty thousand more.
I was alluding to a few years without the U.S. starting a new war. Guess I could have been more precise.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)This problem will not be solved over night. but let's face it the Middle East has been a cluster fuck for centuries, the US certainly wouldn't help much by engaging in another conflict. Diplomacy takes time, but it has a better chance of saving lives, and the environment. So let's give it time to work.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)disidoro01
(302 posts)You are from the "it's better that we kill them with our missiles" camp rather than the "let them kill each other" camp?
This is not a zero-sum game. This is the start of a political process and yes I know it's a masquerade but we have no business killing people to save people in a sovereign country.
Orrex
(63,203 posts)Thanks for your help!
Kablooie
(18,628 posts)The Syrian conflict is a mess from our viewpoint.
There doesn't seem to be a "good" side.
It's a tragedy for the Syrian people but there is not much we can do much about it right now.
At least that's how it appears from the news reports.
So we won nothing, of course.
We simply dodged a bullet that would have been damaging to everyone involved.
It may have even grazed our shoulder as it passed by.
arrows2flowers
(5 posts)found a way out. This is a win/win. We need to focus on the refugees now.