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CJCRANE

(18,184 posts) Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:05 AM Sep 2014

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So if we help the "good" rebels against the "bad" rebels...

and both of them against Assad...

Then surely the bad rebels will just put down their black flags for a few months and fight alongside the good rebels.

Then when they've ousted Assad, they'll simply hoist their black pirates' flag again and go back to being the bad guys.

What's to stop them from doing that?

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So if we help the "good" rebels against the "bad" rebels... (Original Post) CJCRANE Sep 2014 OP

You would almost guess that the goal is to weaponize the entire region. CentralMass Sep 2014 #1

Perhaps the endgame is... CJCRANE Sep 2014 #3

"Good rebels and "bad rebels"? Brigid Sep 2014 #2

or, if/when Assad is ousted, who would expect ISIS to just say "let the good rebels have it" ? KurtNYC Sep 2014 #4

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)

1. You would almost guess that the goal is to weaponize the entire region.

Reply to CJCRANE (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:13 AM

Sep 2014

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)

3. Perhaps the endgame is...

Reply to CentralMass (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:17 AM

Sep 2014

to send all the armed Tea Partiers over there to fight a humongous war.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

2. "Good rebels and "bad rebels"?

Reply to CJCRANE (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:16 AM

Sep 2014

Famous last words, those.

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)

4. or, if/when Assad is ousted, who would expect ISIS to just say "let the good rebels have it" ?

Reply to CJCRANE (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:18 AM

Sep 2014

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