Ron Paul to John McCain: 'Syria is none of our business!' (Video interview)

[ClydeCoulter]

post of the day!

This is well beyond sticking our noses in the affairs of other nations...this is taking sides in a HOLY WAR.

This is inciting war for the benefit of a few, paid for by many, using differences and encouraging those differences, just like black/white or any other way to get people to go at each others throat.

 

[FreedomProsperityPeace]

1:05

You might actually find yourself more allied with this administration, who really has chosen -- though they have spoken of intervention -- not to actually do anything.

B.S.

C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: June 21, 2012

WASHINGTON — A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/w...ing-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?pagewanted=all

 

[Weston White]

What I would really, really love to see is Ron Paul whack a AGM (preferably a Maverick) straight across McCain’s swollen-fat head. Now, that would be the best!

 

[TIMB0B]

From my perspective it looks like a game of chess for the US to control the world's economy and not let it slip to Russia and China.

 

[Weston White]

From my perspective it looks like a game of chess for the US to control the world's economy and not let it slip to Russia and China.

Well, if there were true the U.S. Government would have never ceded any cooperation to the UN. Although, perhaps the USA is being used by the UN as a perpetual tool of international intimation to bring about such desired results?

 

[Cowlesy]

They don't want to smack Syria for resources, they want to smack Syria because it is an ally of Iran's, so they consider it basically an Iranian forward operating base near Israel.

If the U.S./NATO/Israel get a chance to attack Syria, they can neuter the air force and any big rockets/missiles, which, they believe would make Israel marginally safer and Iran a lot weaker. If, after removing Assad from power, a vicious Sunni group takes control and kills a bunch of minorities like the Christians, well, that's just collateral damage. They're just people afterall.

 

[ohgodno]

Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, textiles, cotton, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum.

Syria has an estimated 25 tones of gold reserves.

hxxp://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/18/us-syria-gold-idUSBRE83H0RZ20120418

 

[jay_dub]

They don't want to smack Syria for resources, they want to smack Syria because it is an ally of Iran's, so they consider it basically an Iranian forward operating base near Israel.

If the U.S./NATO/Israel get a chance to attack Syria, they can neuter the air force and any big rockets/missiles, which, they believe would make Israel marginally safer and Iran a lot weaker. If, after removing Assad from power, a vicious Sunni group takes control and kills a bunch of minorities like the Christians, well, that's just collateral damage. They're just people afterall.

Israel is quite capable of defending itself. Besides, everyone KNOWS that to attack Israel would be much the same as attacking the US. IMO, Israel is a moral smokescreen we use to justify our meddling in the ME. That, and the so-called 'GWOT'.

The Sunni/Shia rift is much bigger in the minds of the Mideast countries than Israel is and that is the conflict we are inserting ourselves into.

 

[sailingaway]

post of the day!

This is well beyond sticking our noses in the affairs of other nations...this is taking sides in a HOLY WAR.

Oh, that should turn out well.