I know that. I was just answering BrainGlutton’s query about if the CIA actually had the capability to blow up tanks.
What about west? Could a Syrian refugee conceivably reach safety by running to (of all places!) Lebanon?
According to this Wiki cite - which is arguably accurate and definitely not up-to-date - there are some 26,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
The problem with running to Lebanon is that it’s under the de facto control of Hezbollah, which is a close ally of the Assad regime. Still, any port in a storm.
North is a popular direction for Syrian refugees and Turkey continually builds new camps. No shitty Hezbollah either.
Israeli airstrike on Syria. (So says the Syrian government – the Israeli has no comment.)
Yeah, this was bound to happen sooner or later.
Why is Iran all buddy-buddy with Assad now? Assad is a secular dictator, Ahmadinejad a militant islamist. Assad’s fall could be a good thing as far as weakening Iran goes.
Why? What’s the point? Do the Israelis really believe they can intervene in Syria in any way that won’t make things worse? The U.S. could, just maybe perhaps if everything breaks just exactly perfectly right and we have a huge dose of luck and divine intervention; but Israel can’t, because almost all factions in Syria hate Israel as a matter of non-negotiable principle. Is it not so?
Besides, it’s news to me that Israel has even picked a side in this war. Assad is the devil you know, you know.
I imagine they were worried about having their citizens shot at.
Israel hasn’t picked a side.
It attacked the hardware, regardless of who owned it.
The air force grabbed a chance to destroy some very, very dangerous weapons that were being moved openly, before they could be pointed at Israel.
Those weapons may have been unused and in storage for the past 20 years…but as soon as anybody (and it doesn’t matter who) takes them out of storage, then the rules of the game have changed.
What he said.
Israel doesn’t need to pick a side in this war - it *is *a side in this war, namely the side that’s opposed to Hezbollah (and Iran). If Hezbollah is taking steps to acquire advanced weapon systems, Israel will take actions to prevent this.
The Syrian Civil War hasn’t expanded to include Israel; rather, the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict has expanded to include the Syrian Civil War.
Where did Israel pick a side? Israel bombed a weapons convoy that was going to Hezbullah. Which “side” is that?
Who knows? The Syrian government says Israel bombed a military research facility, not a convoy. The Israeli government says nothing.
The EU wants to arm the rebel groups in the belief that they can contain the weapons only to those rebel groups that are peace loving, western orientated, secular, fighting for democracy and women’s rights. No chance that’s going to happen. At this point the rebels have been so thoroughly infected or taken over by islamists that they on the whole are worse than Assad. If anything we should send more bombs to Assad. But really we should stay the hell away. There are no good sides, and nothing good is going to come of it. If the rebels win Christians and Alawites are going to be cleansed. If we really want to do something we could go in and set up safe zones like during the Bosnian wars. Only it didn’t work so well at that time.
How do you know that?
because they send serious military arms used against Israel through Syria as part of their proxy-war.
“Syria warns Israel of ‘surprise’ retaliation”.
Well, you just went and spoiled the surprise, dumbass! :mad:
Good help is hard to find.
“Israeli Leader kidnapped by the Syrian Inquisition. ‘No one expected the Syrian Inquisition’ says government representative.”
I figure as long as they’re fighting each other, they can’t invest a lot of time in planning ways to harm Israelis or Americans, so … keep it up fellas.