Theresa May Being Very Dangerous- War Is Looking Imminent

[gordiescotland1]

I'm sorry if this might sound uncaring Why on earth are Britain getting involved in a conflict thousands of miles away? So what if Assad uses chemical weapons, why do the UK have to get involved? It is going to put us at risk of terror attacks, and God forbid Nuclear War. It is not our problem? Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy are not getting involved
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5605247/Theresa-convenes-war-cabinet-tomorrow.html

[vetuste_ennemi]

Cronon? Can't remember him.

Are we getting Sophocles mixed up with Game of Thrones?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Alluding to Peter's 10:38 post:
".. as Cronon said in Antigone (yeah dat one - )
who can tell what a man will do until you give him powa? "

Although, to give him credit, it is almost, if not exactly, unlike...

[ChillDoubt]

However if there ever was another war, I'm quite certain conscription would be re -introduced.
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I doubt that. Future large scale conflicts will see fewer combatants, it’s all done via satellite imagery and smart missiles now, boots on the ground will be minimal use, their purpose these days is for counter insurgency/anti-terrorist ops, they’ll be obsolete in large-scale warfare IMHO.

[Khandro]

Cronon? maybe it should read, 'Cronus'; Greek myth of the Titan Cronus who, fearing that he would be overthrown by one of his children, ate each one upon their birth, or what?

[anotheoldgit]

ChillDoubt
/// So what do you suggest AOG?
We stand idly by and appease the despots?
Turn a blind eye?
Does the name Chamberlain mean anything to you? ///

You cannot possibly compare a civil war that is being carried out in a relative small Middle Eastern country to a dictator of a large European country who had his eyes on world wide domination.

[Jackdaw33]

Do you mean Creon, who became king after Oedipus? (A level Greek, 1966).

[vetuste_ennemi]

Late you come, yet still you come, Jackdaw.

(Khandro will do that in the original German)

[vetuste_ennemi]

Quite a good film wasn't it - Schiller's pisst.

[ChillDoubt]

You cannot possibly compare a civil war that is being carried out in a relative small Middle Eastern country to a dictator of a large European country who had his eyes on world wide domination.
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Not in your eyes, but you need to wake up and smell what you’re shovelling when someone start using chemical weapons.

[ichkeria]

The OPCW now confirms the UK’s analysts of the chemical agent used in Salisbury.
Why is the assumption that Theresa May is ‘taking us to war’?
I smile when I hear people say the conflict on Syria doesn’t affect us. Several thousand refugees in Europe says it very definitely does affect us.

[Spicerack]

Wolf.
//Someone has to stand up for these people, to stand by and allow them to suffer is wrong on so many levels. I thought that we are a 'christian' country - we can't stand by and do nothing//
Assad is the only thing standing between certain death for every Christian in Syria.
Google last weekend's Easter celebrations in Aleppo.
Then check out the same place under the anti-Assad forces.

[ichkeria]

Assad, I will say this for him, did not employ discrimination on religious grounds when blitzing his people.

Last time I checked the UK was already at risk of terrorist attack. Possible from people petered off we did nothing to help when we could have done

[naomi24]

I'll re-post the question I asked earlier today that remains unanswered. If we remove Assad what do his critics think the ultimate result will be?

[Khandro]

Somewhere on the internet (maybe some AB truffle-dog can find it) there is a site showing photographs of beautiful Damascus boulevards with tall palm trees and fine restaurants and cafés, then pictures taken from the same spots as it is now, - rubble and dust!
Who dunnit? well definitely not Bashar al-Assad.

[ichkeria]

I don’t think the plan is to remove Assad

[Jackdaw33]

Assad is a London-trained optician and a much milder man than his father was. I take the point about the Christian population in Syria; they wouldn't stand a chance in ISIS areas.

[douglas9401]

Maybe it's creosote, you know, used to cover stuff up but stinks for months.

"Last time I checked the UK was already at risk of terrorist attack. Possible from people petered off we did nothing to help when we could have done"

Whatever 'we' do there will always be some wild eyed ingrate with an axe to grind looking for blood to satisly honour or some other nebulous crap.

[youngmafbog]

Neither would anyone else the Islamist's dislike - In other words anyone who is the Kaifr (And homosexuals, and women, and many others).

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Last time I checked the UK was already at risk of terrorist attack. Possible from people petered off we did nothing to help when we could have done//

Can you rearrange this into a coherent point, Ichkeria?

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

/// If we remove Assad what do his critics think the ultimate result will be? ///

The same as what happened in Libya and Iraq.