The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Raust]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

(((Syria)))

[Akai]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ment-military/

[Akai]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

US, France and the UK (the people who pronounce words correctly) strike Syria.

Why would the UK and France work in accordance with America when it’s so obvious that our current government is unstable?

You're our allies, if reaction from the west would occur due to international law then it's the west in general that'll be responding.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Europe - you’re insane to join forces with America under this administration

Your administrations (in terms of war and international law) have always been complete sh*t, the one you have now is an improvement compared to the decision to go to war by Eisenhower, Bush etc.

Besides, our corrupt government loves tag teaming with your corrupt government and vice versa.

[Trollheart]

More to the point, if they didn't support him, you just know Trump would say "If you're not with us you're against us." You want to be on the wrong side of that ****ing maniac? Better the (almost literal) devil you know, I guess. Plus he'll probably reserve a seat in the bunker for May and the frog pressy.

[Cuthbert]

I thought Russia was going to shoot the missiles down?

[Cuthbert]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/spanish-wo...173623805.html

Racially motivated?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/spanish-wo...173623805.html

Racially motivated?

Hell yes. They jumped up on her for speaking Spanish.

[Lisnaholic]

I fear that Syria is something of a lost cause and the Allied missile strike is a pretty empty gesture. No one has much of a firm policy and the USA doesn't even have a Sec of State or ambassadors in neighbouring Qatar, Jordan etc, so even if they had a policy, they have no one to explain it on the ground. What can they do? Announce it by tweets, or send the apparently mute and increasingly invisible Jared Kushner in to do his job and fix the Middle East?

Chemicals or no, the Assad family has always been brutal to Syrians. If you want some historical perspective, explore what the regime did to Hama, "the most beautiful city in Syria" in 1982 - a crack-down, or massacre, in which up 40,000 civilians were killed.
After the destruction of the city, an American journalist visited the site:-

Not far from the city center we came to a neighbourhood that had been plowed up and then flattened.
"Where are all the houses that once stood here?" I asked.
"You're driving on them," he said.
"But where are all the people who used to live here?"
"You're probably driving on some of them too."
I kicked the ground beneath my feet and uncovered a tennis shoe... '

[OccultHawk]

I fear that Syria is something of a lost cause and the Allied missile strike is a pretty empty gesture

You think? 500,000 dead. Millions displaced. And America’s president is Ronald McDonald’s retarded brother.

[Lisnaholic]

Yeah, some parts of the world are just hell holes, apparently without hope or remedy. The history of the Congo makes pretty dis-spiriting reading too; decades as the King of Belgium's personal slave colony, then things got really bad....