Another flipping war

[drawboy]

Well according to the news the UK IS going to attack Syria. Great! That is all we need. Once again we are the pawn of the US charged with doing their dirty work.
There is no doubt in my mind that once more we are going to interfere in a conflict that does not concern us one bit.
This spells disaster as it would seem we are going to strike the assad regime regardless of it's legality.
When will our politicians ever break free of the U.S?
I know we owe a debt we can never pay following. WW2 but we cannot go on being the U.S's private stormtroopers surely?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Strong feeling of deja vu on this one.

You would think that we would have learned our lessons by now.

What on earth does clan warfare in the middle east have to do with us.
Even the UN are telling us to calm down.

 

[bluewolf]

People seem to forget that War is very profitable for the types of companies that can employ the best lobbyists and ex (and current) politicians.......

 

[williamalex1]

The only Arabs we should be attacking is the team from Dundee.

 

[Mark_G]

I can't help thinking we should be a lot more cautious but if I was a potential victim of a chemical attack I would be praying for someone to help. We are damned if we do, damned if we don't..

 

[Vice]

They don't even know who they should be going to war with, they are saying its the government, but they don't even know who did it.

Possible it was extremists, easy way to wipe out their opposition.

heck it could of been the Americans for all anybody knows.

everyone pointing fingers at each other

 

[PhilTheFragger]

If Assad had nothing to hide over the chemical attack, then why did he wait 5 days before letting the UN inspectors into the site.

Sounds like a clean up operation to me.

This is a real test of the UN's credibility, if they fail to sort this out they may as well not exist

I do agree that we cannot be seen as the worlds police force, we are reducing our armed forces and simply cannot do the job , on the one hand its nothing to do with us, on the other hand, the whole region could become more unstable (is that possible) and before you know it WW3 has begun if the Israelies feel threatened .

can O worms

 

[drawboy]

My money would be on the CIA. The end game is the same, OIL.

 

[3offTheTee]

How can we afford to be involved every time some problem occurs. We should avoid a all costs

 

[Rooter]

We need 'team America' they would sort it out. Them with Hans brix...

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I think we need to do more talking first and let the UN deal with this initially. Too many variables to understand how the government can say with 100% certainty they know who they are going after, where they are and that they can actually get them. How long were they looking for Saddam? Bigger worry still for me is the threat of chemical reprisal attacks here in the UK by militant terrorists

 

[PhilTheFragger]

We need 'team America' they would sort it out. Them with Hans brix...

Now you're talking

but Assad singing " Im so ronery" doesn't have the same ring to it

 

[Vice]

Or why did the UN take 5 days to get into the site? Because he said they couldn't?
Not saying he has nothing to hide, but people generally believe "the news", unfortunately the news is dictated by the government.

If Assad had nothing to hide over the chemical attack, then why did he wait 5 days before letting the UN inspectors into the site.

Sounds like a clean up operation to me.

This is a real test of the UN's credibility, if they fail to sort this out they may as well not exist

I do agree that we cannot be seen as the worlds police force, we are reducing our armed forces and simply cannot do the job , on the one hand its nothing to do with us, on the other hand, the whole region could become more unstable (is that possible) and before you know it WW3 has begun if the Israelies feel threatened .

can O worms

 

[SocketRocket]

The UN team that are checking for chemical weapons have not finished their tests yet! How can we make decisions before that.

I am suspicious on the pictures and film on the chemical weapon use. They could have possibly been fabricated to drag in international support.

 

[drdel]

One day our UK leaders will understand we are a small country and cannot afford to be the world's conscience and its policeman. It would be a very, very big mistake to think any conventional military action using our underfunded and over extended soldiers could make a difference. It is not conventional military activities as we would be in the middle; it would last years and cost (waste) the lives of our service personnel.

 

[Vice]

Exactly...

like I said, I'm not saying Assad has nothing to hide, but he is the one with the most to lose in this situation. What conceivable reason could he have for bringing this upon himself?

Guess I'm just paranoid and don't believe anything any government says or does.

Anyone could have fired those rockets, if they were even fired at all like SocketRocket says...

 

[williamalex1]

Who's rockets . SocketRocket.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Haig has just done a triple U turn with pike. Muppet.

 

[Wolfman]

its no wonder the UK has zero money for its own folk and why don't we do the same as Germany etc leave well alone and invest the money into the country instead

Let the Arabs fight it out, and let the US do there thing but without UK assistance

When will this little country ever learn and keep itself to itself for a change

 

[williamalex1]

its no wonder the UK has zero money for its own folk and why don't we do the same as Germany etc leave well alone and invest the money into the country instead

Let the Arabs fight it out, and let the US do there thing but without UK assistance

When will this little country ever learn and keep itself to itself for a change

It took Germany two world wars, which they started and lost . to realise that . We are not learning a thing from past events , Crusades included, before my time BTH.