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2012-10-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

'Slim' Hope of Truce as Fighting Rages on Syria Battlefields

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Posted by Fred 2012-10-23 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Set the region ablaze? You mean that Moslems will be ripping and gutting other Moslems all over the place? I never had much faith in "Give Peace a Chance". When has that ever worked or made a dime? I mean seriously.

I have to pause and ask myself why is Moslems biting Moslems such a bad idea? Its sounds like a win win to me. Neither side is our friend in any case. We do have too many Moslems and if they kill EACH OTHER, pass the mayonnaise.

Or is it that our big corporations are worried about the Oil ? Not to worry, there is a lot of that to be had. There is ALWAYS something to sell to both sides. Like guns and ammunition. Just enough to keep it all going..and going,,and going. Lots of money in guns and ammunition. Probably cheaper than building them schools and roads too. They give us their money and we give them the guns to keep going to the bloody end. Attacking mosques on Ramadan doesn't slow THEM down. yay team ! Hummahumma

And if one side wins so what, they will soon split into factions themselves and start on themselves by Tuesday. We aren't around much in Iraq and they are still blowing up cars there, and as soon as we leave Afghanistan they will shoot their mother and deface their sisters anyway. Maybe they will step up Heroin shipments to Iran besides.

Pakistan? So many opportunities. I wouldn't be against selling poison gas to Pakistan. They do have a stockpile of atomics, of course, and we need to give India the means to "defend"itself.More business there surely.

I say we build a Disneyland in Qatar and expand the liquor industry in Saudi. Drugs...how many drugs do we have for their sons and daughters? Bullets are for the peasants to use. We want daddy's little innocents in their hijab and kaffiyehs. Don't tell me it isn't a market.

The Arab social order will be beyond even salvaging by the "extremists" if its all rotten at the core and totally unusable. You can buy a mullah here and there. It doesn't take all that much. What's to recruit them, Mahmud?
Line the bottles up at the bar and open the door.

Posted by Threater Flusoper9823 2012-10-23 08:30|| 2012-10-23 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Threater, I think your comment should be archived as a "classic"!!!

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2012-10-23 11:32|| 2012-10-23 11:32|| Front Page Top

#3 I have a General Dynamics recruiter's phone number I MUST pass to you Threater! :-)

Posted by Besoeker 2012-10-23 12:15|| 2012-10-23 12:15|| Front Page Top

#4 A true Capitalist solution to the problem of people who refuse to stop killing themselves. I like it.

Posted by Charles 2012-10-23 13:49|| 2012-10-23 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, but hold the mayonnaise. Just put a little bit of salt on my popcorn, thank you very much.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-10-23 14:05|| 2012-10-23 14:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Man that does have certain classic cadence.

Posted by Shipman 2012-10-23 15:37|| 2012-10-23 15:37|| Front Page Top

#7 No. We do not sell to both sides to increase the killing. If they want to go to Perdition in Syria or elsewhere we needn't stop them, but even when the key parties are about equally evil there is no need to be seen making things worse.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-10-23 17:48|| 2012-10-23 17:48|| Front Page Top

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