Kana
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Euro geopolitical analysts can't think of one reason Assad would rationally use chem weapons and suspect maybe a rogue commander, maybe one siding with the rebels trying to lure us in.
I can think of one. It is a terror weapon that can be used with plausible deniability.
Yeah,but in light of the possible risks, using it makes no sense at all. This is a minor engagement in a much larger war, one that Assad by all accounts is winning.
You don't risk everything on a roll of the dice for that.
You use those babies when the enemy is at the gates and there are no other options. Then it's "Fuck the world, I'm just trying to survive," time.
You take that risk when there's a real worthwhile reward, you don't lose a war you've taken control of in exchange for inconsequential gains.
That's just loopy.
And don't make the mistake of thinking these guys aren't smart. You don't survive as long as Assad has in a place as volatile as the Middle East w/o having some freaking brains. These dudes know what they are doing, they be crazy like a fox.
And again, despite the administrations claims to the contrary, they've produced no hard evidence. Hell, they won't even show any evidence to the public.The same people behind all the Snowden lies are now saying "Trust us."
Cuz you know, the US government has been so trustworthy about WMD's and the Middle East before.
Fuck dude, the Administration doesn't even know. The White House says one thing, Kerry says another.I mean shit, they can't even keep the story straight. First they have incontrovertible evidence. Then it's, well, not quite what it's cracked up to be. Now they won't even release whatever the hell they have but they assure us, assure us I say, that it's solid. Fuck.They don't have a clue.
And we want this clownshoes show to lead us into war?
Holy piss.That's frightening
Finally, one more time, why is this falling to us and not the UN?
This is a UN issue, not a US issue. The worst possible move we can make now we've already done, make it an American issue.
Now, either way we play our hand, we lose.
And that sucks.As they say in Wargames, what fun is to play a game rigged so you cannot win?
As for the first reply above,I'm saying the hate is symmetrical.
The forces, and thus the strategies and corresponding tactics, aren't.
They can't beat us in any sort of conventional war.They know it. We know it.Everyone does (WTF else do you think Iran wants nukes? They know that's the only way they'll truly be safe from US incursion.Those cats look at North Korea and go,"Uh-huh. That the way to be, Jack.")
So you use guerrilla tactics, attack when they retreat, retreat when the enemy attacks, be where they aren't and do be where they are.
Is it fair? Fuck no. But then again, what in war is? Carpet bombing sure ain't. Burying troops alive in the trenches with armored bulldozers sure ain't, which we did in Iraq. Sending kill squads in on stealth choppers and invading a sovereign nations airspace to do so ain't. But we do it. As do they.
There ain't no good guys here. Not even effing close
< Message edited by Kana -- 9/9/2013 4:43:12 PM >
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