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2019-04-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Demanding perfection: US-led 2017 blitz on Syria's Raqqa killed 1,600 civilians
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Posted by trailing wife 2019-04-26 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 but the same rights groups are not able to carry out investigations there

I wonder why?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-04-26 07:22||   2019-04-26 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Body counts via satellite images. Could be a flaw (and bias) in there somewhere.
Posted by Elmeremp Borgia9350 2019-04-26 07:27||   2019-04-26 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 no one worries about civilian deaths unless the US is involved
Posted by chris 2019-04-26 08:23||   2019-04-26 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 given that the enemy refuses to wear uniforms to distinguish themselves from civilians (a violation of the Conventions for the reason to help avoid civilian casualties), its hardly surprising. It's their fault not the coalition forces.
Posted by P2kontheroad 2019-04-26 08:40||   2019-04-26 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh well.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-04-26 09:14||   2019-04-26 09:14|| Front Page Top

#6 The fact that we're there in the first place is the problem.

What's the prize in Syria? What do we win if we win? Nobody can tell me. It's just "well you don't want to let TEH ROOSHINS win, do you?" To which the correct answer is, "who the hell cares?"
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-04-26 10:12||   2019-04-26 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Broken record, Satire Boy
Posted by Frank G 2019-04-26 10:21||   2019-04-26 10:21|| Front Page Top

#8 We don't want another free base of operation metastasising around the world and crashing more planes into buildings in civilisation...

The crocodile always plans to eat you.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-04-26 10:24||   2019-04-26 10:24|| Front Page Top

#9 This reminds me of the "correct pronoun" battles.

Unless the civilians are clearly marked (pink helmets?) life sucks.

I think anyone that wants a special pronoun has to have it tattooed on their forehead.
Posted by AlanC 2019-04-26 10:43||   2019-04-26 10:43|| Front Page Top

#10 So,...it worked, eh?
Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-26 11:51||   2019-04-26 11:51|| Front Page Top

#11 So, I'm curious: what's on the table in Syria? Let's say we win the war. What did we win? Except an open-ended troop commitment and billions in cost, none of it benefiting us.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-04-26 15:18||   2019-04-26 15:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Let's say we win the war.

Win? I can't even tell whose side we're on.
Posted by SteveS 2019-04-26 16:52||   2019-04-26 16:52|| Front Page Top

#13  I think anyone that wants a special pronoun has to have it tattooed on their forehead.

I think it might really be neat
If each special person we meet,
Each guy, gal, or golem,
To know how to call 'em,
Would hand us a carte de visite!
Posted by Fat Bob Ometh7575 2019-04-26 18:04||   2019-04-26 18:04|| Front Page Top

#14 : what's on the table in Syria?

Why, Obama's thin red line. What else, other than Saddam's WMDs of course, and Turkey's gateway to the middle east. Was Syria the terminus to the new silk road of Biden's buddies? No, that rolled thru Turkey to Poland before branching into the rest of Europe, I think.

On the table? Basically the last 50 years of Democratic meddling coming to spoiled fruition.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-26 18:55||   2019-04-26 18:55|| Front Page Top

#15 "It may have to do with money," Rovera said.

"There are, more expensive, smaller impact-radius missiles, but the coalition often used... old MK-type bombs that take out entire buildings. Those are much cheaper," she said.


That's why we are always glad to take donations from right-thinking individuals like her to fund more expensive ordnance.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2019-04-26 19:54||   2019-04-26 19:54|| Front Page Top

#16 What's the prize in Syria? What do we win if we win? Nobody can tell me. It's just "well you don't want to let TEH ROOSHINS win, do you?" To which the correct answer is, "who the hell cares?"



You've told yourself. You just don't like the answer.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2019-04-26 19:55||   2019-04-26 19:55|| Front Page Top

#17 So, I'm curious: what's on the table in Syria? Let's say we win the war. What did we win? Except an open-ended troop commitment and billions in cost, none of it benefiting us.

We spend trillions on cops and we still get thousands of murders and literally tens of millions of cases of other crimes per year. Maybe we should stop enforcing the law and send the cops home.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2019-04-26 19:58||   2019-04-26 19:58|| Front Page Top

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