[FairfieldLife] Re: Inside, Outside, Upside Down
I thought our (UK) Prime Minister made a complete tit of himself... turquoiseb: I'm making a concerted effort to stay out of all this Syrian shit, but I did want to commend you on your turn of phrase above. LOL-worthy. But now I'm stuck trying to figure out whether David Cameron is a C-cup or a D-cup. :-) Addressing the important issues! Obama and the French president drew an unbelievably small red line, but they fell into a very deep hole. Go figure. 'The most feeble US president of modern times?' The Telegraph: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100235335/barack-obamas-\ syria-speech-was-an-incoherent-mess-he-is-outperforming-jimmy-carter-as-\ the-most-feeble-us-president-of-modern-times/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Inside, Outside, Upside Down
s3raphita: I thought our (UK) Prime Minister made a complete tit of himself by recalling Parliament from the summer break to hold an emergency motion on Syria and then to blow it as he hadn't worked out the numbers correctly. We've gone from denouncing Assad and his use of CW to now supporting him to get rid of his CW. It was all inside, outside, and upside down! Now it's down two, sideways up, then right, then left. Go figure. Before long Washington may find itself locked on to implicitly or even explicitly supporting Assad in his civil war as the best chance to get some sort of internationally agreed CW destruction programme delivered in Syria. How has this happened? 'Syria, chemical weapons, and the worst day in Western diplomatic history' The Telegraph: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/charlescrawford/100235250/syria-chemi\ cal-weapons-and-the-worst-day-in-western-diplomatic-history/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Inside, Outside, Upside Down
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita said: I thought our (UK) Prime Minister made a complete tit of himself... I'm making a concerted effort to stay out of all this Syrian shit, but I did want to commend you on your turn of phrase above. LOL-worthy. But now I'm stuck trying to figure out whether David Cameron is a C-cup or a D-cup. :-)
[FairfieldLife] RE: Inside, Outside, Upside Down
[FairfieldLife] Re: Inside, Outside, Upside Down
'Congress looking at perilous precedent' by Michael Gerson The Washington Post, Friday September 6, 2013 obbajeeba: Are you on drugs? Read the U.S. Constitution. You are supposed to read the newspaper article by Michael Gerson BEFORE you post your comments - my post was just a paraphrase of the article. It's in the newspaper, The Washington Post today. This is a test. So, I guess you don't read the newspaper? Go figure. If the U.S. Congress votes no to attack Syria, this will set dangerous new precedent. The U.S. President then will not be in command - he will no longer be the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. So, let's review: Obama directs drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sudan without consulting Congress. In mid-June the Obama administration says it would begin providing aid to the Free Syrian Army - so where are the arms? The President declared that Assad must go - but Assad is still in power and apparently winning. Obama drew a chemical weapons thin red line and threatened an imminent military attack - but he didn't attack and the attack was repudiated in the U.K. Parliament. Then the President indicated that we needed the United Nations to back up the Syrian strikes - then Obama declared it unnecessary. Now the President says he wants the U.S. Congress to support the attack on Syria - but Obama said he didn't really need Congress's support. If Congress says no on the Syrian strikes, the President of the U.S. will go into battle with his hands tied behind his back. Go figure. Read more: 'Congress looking at perilous precedent' by Michael Gerson The Washington Post, Friday September 6, 2013 'US drone 'kills Haqqani commander Sangeen Zadran' BBC News Asia: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23983388
