Reply to: Why no threads on Syria?

[ThomasSoerensen]

Or Kirk?

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

Darth Vader's

[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...

[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.

[Doggy Styles]

Something slimy.

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

Not tribbles then.

[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?

[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]

After all the risings lately no-one here can be arsed any more.

Also, I might be wrong but I don't remember Assad damaging the UK, unlike Gadaffi who caused the Lockerbie disaster and supplied weapons to the IRA.

To say nothing of fraternising with war criminals like Tony Blair.

[EternalOptimist]

President Assad never did a thread about me when I was no good

[Troll]

Because we don't give a tulip?

HTH.

Why did we give a tulip about Libya?

[gingerjedi]

I was in Bleadon at the weekend.

Nice pub there. The Queens Arms?

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

[Troll]

These Arab countries with islamic principles are better off governed by a dictator. The moment they get some independence they start fighting among themselves. Result ? decades of civil war with generations who know nothing but how to fight with a gun.

Agreed - democracy is a western invention, why try to impose it on others where a more tribal model may be more suitable?

[fullyautomatix]

These Arab countries with islamic principles are better off governed by a dictator. The moment they get some independence they start fighting among themselves. Result ? decades of civil war with generations who know nothing but how to fight with a gun.

[Troll]

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

[BrilloPad]

I am sure there are lots of threads on Chinese bulletin boards worrying about the Syrian people?

And when are the Arabs going to step in? Why do we always have to be world police? We are a small, third rate country and about time we started behaving as such.

[pacharan]

Heartless bastards...

I was in Bleadon at the weekend.

Nice pub there. The Queens Arms?