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Re: President Barack Obama said Monday he would put plans for airstrikes against Syria on hold if Bashar Assad's regime were to turn over control of its chemical weapons.

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 10 Sep 13 11:52 PM | 45 view(s)
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hi clo,

i'm not sure that is always true. but i know the us perceives it that way.

take the libyan conflict. the us wasn't the prime mover (britain and france pushed for western involvement) and didn't join in the air campaign.

but iraq was mostly a us adventure, ignoring good advice from france, germany, russia and china.

afghanistan involved most everyone you'd expect.

i agree that the us has far the strongest military and usually leads.

but the point i'm making is that in this case, russia seems to be pushing for a more sensible, non-military solution. so let's all back them. the us has a bad idea so let's not pursue it.


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Re: President Barack Obama said Monday he would put plans for airstrikes against Syria on hold if Bashar Assad's regime were to turn over control of its chemical weapons.
By: clo in ALEA
Tue, 10 Sep 13 11:28 PM 		Msg. 14685 of 54959

"The world should adopt the best solutions to its problems, rather than always acquiesce with US demands.

It isn't as if wisdom only issues from Washington."

That would be great (for us) if others would step up when the sh*t hits the fans.
Usually the world expects us to do the heavy lifting.

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