It is not that difficult. Declare a no fly zone, stick the drones up, I’m afraid that the use of chemical weapons has to be dealt with and dealt with severely.
Oh! Hang on, let’s wait for a directive from the UN
It is not that difficult. Declare a no fly zone, stick the drones up, I’m afraid that the use of chemical weapons has to be dealt with and dealt with severely.
Oh! Hang on, let’s wait for a directive from the UN
Boadicea's Chariot 
Jeez, I’m angry, angry at the inactivity of it all and if I hear that buzzword ” boots on the ground “ once more I’m gonna pull my hair out
I presently have two pairs of boots by the door, does that count?
What size?
Question is: Does anybody at all believe the ‘intelligence’? The US spokesman himself seemed in some doubt. Bring back Kissinger and Rumsfeld! Life used to be so much simpler, innit?
Môre Janus, indeed, however with a reported 70,000 civilian deaths already one would think that ‘the world’ could perhaps do more?
SKY reported overnight that Syria has the 4th largest stock of chemical weapons in the world! It’s a regime that is taking to long to topple 😦
‘Morgen, Soutie. Yes but other Arab springs have resulted in another equally iffy regime taking over. And I doubt whether anybody will send the troops or drones in these days.
I suppose that with the flood of refugees to Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan (do any go to Iran?) stretching resources, water for one! the Arabs and their ‘Arab League’ have to be surely actively seeking a solution.
The other Arab springs were effectively localized, i.e. limited to the borders of the respective countries.
Probably. But Sunis and Shiites (to name but two) will never agree, even agree to differ, so what TE Lawrence observed a hundred years ago will persist, I’m afraid. He saw that Arabs can’t become communities or countries because of their inability to cooperate outside their own small family units.
Soutie: one set is my Clark’s Desert Boots. The other are black wool-lined boots with buckles that go almost halfway up my legs. (Okay, so I’m a bit short and they’re for snow)
I am so damned tired of the middle east, most of them would quarrel with their shadows, I think it better to leave them to kill each other. Whilst they are doing that they aren’t killing us. Once they have reduced their population to a reasonable size I expect they’ll give up.
I expect the sarin is of the same calibre as the WMD of Iraq!
Let the buggers get on with it!
It’s quite obvious that the world (West, East, North, South, Arab League, UN etc.) have been more than happy to sit back and let them kill each other, one has to assume that vast amounts of money is being made arming the respective sides.
The question here is, should we ignore the alleged use of chemical weapons? If this gang appear to get away with it who’s next? A tin pot South American / African / Asian dictator?
Why, oh why do so many people think that we in the West have to play (and pay) policemen / guardians / refuges for the rest of the world – especially when that ‘rest of the world’, generally, hate and despise everything we in the West stand for?
My sympathy for the victims of ‘evil’ regimes ran out a long time ago.
Why should my taxes solve other country’s problems when there are things here which could be resolved with the same amount of money?
To quote Christina