Syrias cry for help.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....ffensive-in-Homs.html

Taking into account the atrocities that are taking place in Syria, should we now attack Syria as we did in Libya?

Or should we follow China and Russia, and sit back and do nothing?

[shoota]

You go first.......we'll be right behind you, honest!

[rojash]

Send in the EDL

[anotheoldgit]

Much easier to have a dig at the messenger, that to commit oneself, it seems

[rov1100]

Russia is still peeved off the way we tackled Libya. They agreed at the UN something had to be done but as it turned out to be regime change they felt let down.

So come the problem of Syria they won't be caught wih their knickers down and so oppose any resolution we put forward. You can't blame Russia really for acting the way that it has.

[DTCwordfan]

General AOG, Filed Commander, Syria.

The very thought makes the mind boggle.

Mind you, let's see AOG's reaction when we start receiving refugees from Hom and other Syrian cities. Bet he won't be that welcoming.....

[DTCwordfan]

Field Commander, not Filed Commander, though that may be more apropos....

[anotheoldgit]

Good answer rov1100

[venator]

The UK can no longer afford to get suckered into expensive foreign adventures.

We're the biggest net contributor to the EU - let them prance and posture while we deal with the real problems in this country.

[sandyRoe]

We'd go if America asked us. ^^^

[Davethedog]

Venator where did you get that we pay most into EU? It took me less that a minute to see thats not true

[pdust]

*We'd go if America asked us. ^^^ *

or maybe told us ;)

[ichkeria]

We should do neither. Plainly "attacking Syria" is out of the question, but don't believe for one moment the Russia is "sitting back doing nothing". Tomorrow their foreign minister Lavrov visits Damascus where you may be assured that he will discuss with his friend and ally Assad how best to prop the beleaguered President up. Don't believe the nonsense about Libya: it's nothing to do with a genuine desire to avoid bloodshed (a bit late for that surely) but everything to do with desperately trying to preserve their many interests there.
Meanwhile the West and the Arab League are trying to do what they can in the face of the UN failure, but it's hard to see what they can do in the short term. Long term Assad, and Russia's interests in that country, are doomed (they are hated now by the ordinary, currently disenfranchised people, hardly susprisingly), and it is bizarre that they can't see that and try to cut their losses.

[Zeuhl]

^^ Indeed

Russia will want an outcome where they retain their naval base in Syria

[Gromit]

FTAO AOG

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1102611.html