Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
>max,
>you asked me how i felt syria could defend itself against the US. Lemme
>clarify, I shoulda written could defend itself better than Iraq and
>probably enough so that the US won't attack. The pentagon seems to have
>a penchant for attacking governments with ruined militaries and
>depleted resources like Iraq or Afghanistan.
>Syria obviously is not a military powerhouse, but it hasn't been
>subjected to 12 years of sanctions and bombings, so I'm guessing the US
>would be rather wary of getting involved in a military battle with
>Syria.
>Right now it looks like all this saber rattling is a pretext to achieve
>some form of sanctions or the like. It's hard to imagine other nations
>going along with this I'd think, but that does appear to be the goal.
>
>steve
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