[quote-tag-mismatch][quote-tag-mismatch]viet nam taught us you can't save a country that won't save itself, a
country where corruption is more important than patriotism. and after
23 billion dollars spent training and arming the iraqi military, as soon
as a bunch of guys in suvs and pickups show up, the military drops
their weapons, abandons their tanks, changes into civvies and runs for
home. another example...syria....all the voices calling for us to arm
the rebels fighting al-assad...which rebels? and what keeps the rebels
you do arm from passing those arms onto groups you don't want armed.
al-assad may be a bad guy but is he a bad guy like hussein was, keeping a
country from descending into total chaos?
oh and we appear to have armed the isis group recently...since we DID arm the iraqis
Beirut (AFP) - Jihadists
fighting in Syria's war put to use for the first time on Sunday
American-made Humvees that they seized during a lightning offensive in
Iraq this month, a monitor said.
The Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant, or ISIL, used the armoured vehicles to capture the villages
of Eksar and Maalal in Aleppo province, which borders Turkey, said the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It came after heavy fighting
against the Islamic Front and its Al-Qaeda-affiliated ally, the Al-Nusra
Front, said the Observatory, a Britain-based group that gets its
information from a network of sources on the ground.i
thought an interview of marco rubio sunday morning was a good
illustration of our country politically right now. he was carrying on
about president obama and what obama was or was not doing in iraq and
syria. when o'donnell asked him what he would do, he tried to sidestep
the question and when pressed with the same question, he stuttered
stammered and finally said we should cut off the flow of arms tho he didn't have any steps to recommend to do that. now
that's a fine goal for someone whose party wants more weapons poured in
for the rebels in syria. so what we have is people who don't know what
to do but just know the other guys are doing it wrong
i'll take a clue for 200 alex
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