Why no threads on Syria?

[DS23]

You might equally well enquire why there are no threads about Somalia/The Sudan/WhichEverAfricantulipholeIsCurrentlyInTheNews.

The answer is the same.

exactly. countries don't wear clothes.

[Doggy Styles]

He deserved his end for that alone.

It's a pity Bliar wasn't there to share it with him.

Or Kirk?

If Gadaffi was a Star Trek fan whose side would he have been on?

[Doggy Styles]

Something slimy.

Probly one of those flying thingies that made Spock go blind that time.

Not tribbles then.

[Paddy]

Dammed if we do, dammed if we don't

If the Ruskies & China won't support UN action then unless you are G.Bush there's feck all we can do about it & I suppose it's a Western thing that killing your own citizens is a bad thing

A shame the Arab League couldn't sort it out

Peeved off with the Syrian ex-pats behavior in London outside the Syrian Embassy but ditto for the recent Congo demonstrations so appears to be a price being paid for multiculturalism

There is no UN authority to insist on regime change. The resolution that was vetoed merely condemned the Syrian government and called then to cease hostilities.

Russia and China proposed an amendment and called for both sides to cease hostilities. Had the amendment been agreed the resolution would have been passed. Since the rebels are heavily armed by the west, it was rejected by the US and so Russia and China vetoed it.

[bobspud]

A Butcombe brewery pub IIRC, I had my last pint as a single man there then got married across the road.

Bloody horrible beer is Butcombe many a nice local down 'ere is ruined by that stuff...

[ThomasSoerensen]

Or Kirk?

If Gadaffi was a Star Trek fan whose side would he have been on?

Darth Vader's