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| Topic Started: Jun 16 2013, 09:28 PM (173 Views) | |||||
| ♥ Rach ♥ | Jun 16 2013, 09:28 PM Post #1 | ||||
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Given that evidence has surfaced about chemical weapons being used in Syria according to the U.K., France and the U.S.A., they have all started to supply rebels in Syria. Canada will not do this. Personally, I feel it's extremely dangerous and while I want to see something done with Syria, idk if this is the way forward. | ||||
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| Prussia | Jun 16 2013, 09:35 PM Post #2 | ||||
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Foreign states do not need to get involved in other states affairs. | ||||
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| FreeSoc | Jun 17 2013, 08:02 AM Post #3 | ||||
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Somehow I don't see America sending guns to a group which contains some unsavoury people, in order to show Russia that sending guns to unsavoury people is bad, as something that will end well. Particularly not for Syrians. |
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| Falconias | Jun 17 2013, 08:30 AM Post #4 | ||||
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What would we send them, water balloons? Quite frankly, my personal political stance is very non-interventionist. For example: I don't believe foreign aid should be sent to African countries unless we are willing to physically set up infrastructure for them, but even then, Africa will never be able to pay back the debt they incur. As far as situations like Syria is concerned, this may sound harsh but they have to sort out their own problems. The international community could punish Syria far harsher by cutting off trade or imposing massive tariffs as a response to use of chemical weapons. Syria will not be a threat to the rest of the world regardless of which way the civil war goes, so military involvement or supplies should not be considered. |
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| ♥ Rach ♥ | Jun 17 2013, 10:38 AM Post #5 | ||||
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I do feel that the civil war in Syria could destabilize other countries in the same way that the Vietnam war destabilized Cambodia. | ||||
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| Falconias | Jun 17 2013, 10:50 AM Post #6 | ||||
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I would agree, but Syria's civil war is kind of the end result of the Arab Spring in other Arab countries. The rest of those Muslim north African/west Asian countries managed to settle out most of their shit already (think Libya and Egypt). Countries like Iran and Israel will not be affected. The main difference between Vietnam and Syria though: the Vietnam war happened at a crest of the Cold War and involved a major political alignment (communism). The United States were itching for a reason to kill Communists and the Soviets just happened to be supplying the enemy side. So such proxy war would exist in Syria unless Al-Qaeda and/or Iran began supplying the Syrian regime more than they are currently. |
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| Liana Soloviev | Jun 17 2013, 05:53 PM Post #7 | ||||
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Drop them off in the Kurdish area, because whatever the outcome of the Civil War the Kurds sure won't come out winning. | ||||
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| Zeorus | Jun 17 2013, 05:56 PM Post #8 | ||||
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I don't view sending arms to the rebels as direct intervention- we are, after all, only supplying them with weapons. What they do with them is none of our affair. | ||||
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| Liana Soloviev | Jun 17 2013, 06:02 PM Post #9 | ||||
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But what exactly are the Syrian Rebels? There's no unity, there a bunch of groups other than the Free Syrian Army, there are Islamic regional organizations and nationalist groups, such as the Kurds, and by supplying those two groups you'll be supplying them in all their future ventures in the region which will most likely involve Iraq. | ||||
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| Zeorus | Jun 18 2013, 12:33 PM Post #10 | ||||
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And? The US is essentially out of Iraq. Our business there is finished. I have no interest in continuing the neo-imperialist policies American governments have become so fond of. | ||||
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| Falconias | Jun 18 2013, 12:44 PM Post #11 | ||||
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What? So let's say, we supply the rebels with nuclear warheads. That's not intervention? |
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| Liana Soloviev | Jun 18 2013, 02:06 PM Post #12 | ||||
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Instead of supplying nuclear warheads the USA could just drop them... |
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| Falconias | Jun 18 2013, 02:28 PM Post #13 | ||||
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That's not my point.... | ||||
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| Liana Soloviev | Jun 18 2013, 03:01 PM Post #14 | ||||
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It was mine though. |
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| Charles Cerebella | Jun 18 2013, 04:08 PM Post #15 | ||||
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Stupid idea to arm the rebels. Stay out of it, stop preaching to other states and let Assad regain control. Anarchy is in no ones interest and a rebel victory would probably lead to problems for decades to come. | ||||
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| Zeorus | Jun 19 2013, 11:30 AM Post #16 | ||||
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To clarify: I don't support supplying either side. If the US is to supply a side, I would prefer the rebels to Assad's regime. As for nuclear weapons- I do not support the existence of such weapons, much less the trafficking thereof. |
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