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  • Officer of Engineers
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    Originally posted by snapper View Post
    If it had been as simple as that - just Syrians left to themselves - Assad would be gone now. It is not and therein lies the greater danger of what may yet come if Assad remains a puppet dictator to the Iranian Mullahs and Putin. Mark my words if Syria is surrendered because it is "none of our business" that is not the end of the war. It is maybe the end of the end Christian Syrians (some of whom still speak Aramaic) and the Kurdish Syrians but what do think happens in Lebanon after? And then Israel maybe? How many lives do they have to lose for liberty - in 2016 the UN estimated 400,000 dead, 22m have been 'displaced' by some reports. To fight against a criminal dictatorship is right - to fight against three dictatorial regimes is heroic. To wash one's hands of their fight because "it's their problem - not mine" only delays the problem reaching your shore.
    Wonderful. You're against Assad, the Mullahs, and Putin but praising the people who wants to put bombs on our streets. You do what you want with those fucks. We'll just let them keep killing each other.

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  • Ironduke
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    Originally posted by snapper View Post
    If you wish to call the Timurids Mongol successors I can concede that. Not the direct heirs of Genghis though. Nor can I hope to fight the devils I do not know. It's not our job to decide what the future might be. The problems our children or grandchildren may face none can see. Worse evils may arise - or greater good. But for them to have the best possible chance it is our duty to defeat those evils we know of.
    There's another old saying.

    The path to hell is paved with good intentions.

    I'm sure Bush the Younger had the absolute best of intentions in invading Iraq. Yet for all the trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, what we got was an Iranian puppet state and ISIS.
    Last edited by Ironduke; 08 Apr 18,, 05:19.

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  • Gun Grape
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    Originally posted by snapper View Post
    If it had been as simple as that - just Syrians left to themselves - Assad would be gone now. It is not and therein lies the greater danger of what may yet come if Assad remains a puppet dictator to the Iranian Mullahs and Putin. Mark my words if Syria is surrendered because it is "none of our business" that is not the end of the war. It is maybe the end of the end Christian Syrians (some of whom still speak Aramaic) and the Kurdish Syrians but what do think happens in Lebanon after? And then Israel maybe? How many lives do they have to lose for liberty - in 2016 the UN estimated 400,000 dead, 22m have been 'displaced' by some reports. To fight against a criminal dictatorship is right - to fight against three dictatorial regimes is heroic. To wash one's hands of their fight because "it's their problem - not mine" only delays the problem reaching your shore.
    Aha yes the Domino Theory. One of the greatest tools of foreign intervention in the 20th Century.

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  • snapper
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    Originally posted by Gun Grape View Post
    Then the Syrians need to do it themselves. They have to want freedom more than I want to give it to them. Its theirs to take not mine to give with the blood of my people. They have to earn it with their blood.
    If it had been as simple as that - just Syrians left to themselves - Assad would be gone now. It is not and therein lies the greater danger of what may yet come if Assad remains a puppet dictator to the Iranian Mullahs and Putin. Mark my words if Syria is surrendered because it is "none of our business" that is not the end of the war. It is maybe the end of the end Christian Syrians (some of whom still speak Aramaic) and the Kurdish Syrians but what do think happens in Lebanon after? And then Israel maybe? How many lives do they have to lose for liberty - in 2016 the UN estimated 400,000 dead, 22m have been 'displaced' by some reports. To fight against a criminal dictatorship is right - to fight against three dictatorial regimes is heroic. To wash one's hands of their fight because "it's their problem - not mine" only delays the problem reaching your shore.

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  • XLAdept
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    Yet their young men have fled to Europe.

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  • Ironduke
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    Originally posted by Gun Grape View Post
    Then the Syrians need to do it themselves. They have to want freedom more than I want to give it to them. Its theirs to take not mine to give with the blood of my people. They have to earn it with their blood.
    Agreed.

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  • Officer of Engineers
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    Originally posted by snapper View Post
    Indeed I know Nietzsche well and the book you quote from is Beyond Good and Evil. It is hardly gazing into any abyss though to uphold international law in the name of peace - even if it means war in the short term. We fooled ourselves too long with the Putin regime; now Ukraine suffers. Yet you seem content to let a mass murderer in control of Syria in the hope that will be the end of it? It's not ever their "last territorial claim". Face it now or when it reaches you but by then many of those who would have been your allies may have fallen as you said "none of my business".

    My generation were given a good chance by those who sacrificed all in the last century - and those who were prepared to during the Cold War. It is a debt I never forget. Poland is free because of those who served and Ukraine is only where it is today as well. Liberty is not free; it comes with a cost. You have to fight bullies for it. It is a Polish tradition to do so - every generation rebelled during the times Poland didn't exist and more often during the Communist occupation. It runs in our blood almost and we have sayings like "Za naszą i waszą wolność" (For our freedom and for yours). The Ukrainians have caught the fever too - 2004 Orange Revolution, 2014 Revolution of Dignity. When your supposed 'Government' shoots at the people - Lech Wałęsa was involved in the 1970 protests but did better in the 1980s.. Nor do I think your average Syrian is much different from me or you. Sure they may worship God differently but they want peace and liberty just as much. They certainly do not want their children gassed and barrel bombed. Those who do such things are criminals and unless we want them to encroach on us or raise the hopes of other wannabe dictators to do the same with our delicate liberties we must oppose them in every manner possible. That is me passing on the chance of a better world that I was given thanks to the service and sacrifice of those who came before me in like manner to those who will follow me.
    White Man's Burden is a defunct and dangerous idea.

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  • Gun Grape
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    Then the Syrians need to do it themselves. They have to want freedom more than I want to give it to them. Its theirs to take not mine to give with the blood of my people. They have to earn it with their blood.

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  • snapper
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    Indeed I know Nietzsche well and the book you quote from is Beyond Good and Evil. It is hardly gazing into any abyss though to uphold international law in the name of peace - even if it means war in the short term. We fooled ourselves too long with the Putin regime; now Ukraine suffers. Yet you seem content to let a mass murderer in control of Syria in the hope that will be the end of it? It's not ever their "last territorial claim". Face it now or when it reaches you but by then many of those who would have been your allies may have fallen as you said "none of my business".

    My generation were given a good chance by those who sacrificed all in the last century - and those who were prepared to during the Cold War. It is a debt I never forget. Poland is free because of those who served and Ukraine is only where it is today as well. Liberty is not free; it comes with a cost. You have to fight bullies for it. It is a Polish tradition to do so - every generation rebelled during the times Poland didn't exist and more often during the Communist occupation. It runs in our blood almost and we have sayings like "Za naszą i waszą wolność" (For our freedom and for yours). The Ukrainians have caught the fever too - 2004 Orange Revolution, 2014 Revolution of Dignity. When your supposed 'Government' shoots at the people - Lech Wałęsa was involved in the 1970 protests but did better in the 1980s.. Nor do I think your average Syrian is much different from me or you. Sure they may worship God differently but they want peace and liberty just as much. They certainly do not want their children gassed and barrel bombed. Those who do such things are criminals and unless we want them to encroach on us or raise the hopes of other wannabe dictators to do the same with our delicate liberties we must oppose them in every manner possible. That is me passing on the chance of a better world that I was given thanks to the service and sacrifice of those who came before me in like manner to those who will follow me.

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  • Ironduke
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    I'll leave you with another adage. Nietzsche.

    He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

    As with anything, one can take it or leave it. I find it's sage advice.
    Last edited by Ironduke; 07 Apr 18,, 20:14.

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  • snapper
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    Originally posted by Ironduke View Post
    Timurids, late 1300s/early 1400s. There's always a devil worse than the one you know.
    If you wish to call the Timurids Mongol successors I can concede that. Not the direct heirs of Genghis though. Nor can I hope to fight the devils I do not know. It's not our job to decide what the future might be. The problems our children or grandchildren may face none can see. Worse evils may arise - or greater good. But for them to have the best possible chance it is our duty to defeat those evils we know of.

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  • Officer of Engineers
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    Originally posted by snapper View Post
    Actually the Mongols were defeated at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260 and later driven back from Syria
    You don't want to lecture me on Mongol-Turkic history.

    Originally posted by snapper View Post
    - but hey just facts.
    So what? That was just another start of another round of endless butchering.

    Originally posted by snapper View Post
    As for myself I prefer a better, safer world for those who come after me rather than "peace in my time" for my own 'quality of life' or whatever. I do not compromise with tyrants or mass murderers; there can be none. It is us or them and if you do not understand that it is because you are fortunate enough for your family not have experienced it. "Sic semper tyrannis" is not just a saying. It is a war if need be.
    Fine. You go after them and don't lecture us about staying home. We've done our share and then some.

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  • Ironduke
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    Originally posted by snapper View Post
    Actually the Mongols were defeated at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260 and later driven back from Syria - but hey just facts.
    Timurids, late 1300s/early 1400s. There's always a devil worse than the one you know.

    I'd be more than glad to discuss this in the historical forum. :-)

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  • snapper
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    Actually the Mongols were defeated at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260 and later driven back from Syria - but hey just facts. As for myself I prefer a better, safer world for those who come after me rather than "peace in my time" for my own 'quality of life' or whatever. I do not compromise with tyrants or mass murderers; there can be none. It is us or them and if you do not understand that it is because you are fortunate enough for your family not have experienced it. "Sic semper tyrannis" is not just a saying. It is a war if need be.

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  • Officer of Engineers
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    Wake Up! The problem was there long before North America belonged to the Vikings. Thbe only time the area was at peace was under the Mongols when they slaughtered whole cities and their armies collected 300 heads per soldier. We tried for 10 years to bring peace and prosperity from Iraq to Afghanistan and all they still wanted to do was to butcher each other.

    You want to send your child into that mess, that's your preorgative but I'm not going to bleed for a bunch of murdering fucks anymore.

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