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Posted by: ExquisiteDragon
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Big news ladies! The US has moved the USS Bataan amphibian air carrier strike vessel to Syrian's coast in the Mediterranean. In the case of Syrian missile attacks on Turkey, the US would provide Turkey with the shield of the AEGIS missile interceptors aboard American warships in the Middle East.
Ah so America is protecting an ally that's unexpected but nice.

By unexpected I mean with the whole congress war thing and budget problems I didn't think they would risk another military operation.
I think Congress is slowly being kicked out of the game. They've done nothing but debate on sh1t that has no purpose and I think Obama sees there uselessness.


that's why i think he didn't go to them before deploying to Libya, time was of the essence and Congress would of been to slow and it would cost civilian lives.

China Moves Closer to Libyan Opposition

International forces will step up Libya pressure, says Downing Street

Syria says the EU sanctions amount to war. its getting hotter...

i have a unconfirmed report of 40 militants escaping a Yemeni prison. working on confirmation now.

  • 06.22.2011 7:03 AM PDT


Posted by: Mereel N7

Syria says the EU sanctions amount to war. its getting hotter...

i have a unconfirmed report of 40 militants escaping a Yemeni prison. working on confirmation now.
here

and since when do sanctions even do anything, let alone constitute war?

also, link for that story

  • 06.22.2011 7:54 AM PDT


Posted by: ExquisiteDragon
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Posted by: Mereel N7

Syria says the EU sanctions amount to war. its getting hotter...

i have a unconfirmed report of 40 militants escaping a Yemeni prison. working on confirmation now.
here

and since when do sanctions even do anything, let alone constitute war?

also, link for that story
Anyone can start a war for the dumbest reason. Don't think a piece of paper has any power.
Of course, but war is costly and thus usually has some kind of reasoning behind it. "Sanctions are like war" seems like a pretty fail reason to me considering how little they really accomplish. Obviously it's probably just a cover for "we just don't like you." That seems more legitimate to me than such a pathetic excuse.

  • 06.22.2011 8:07 AM PDT


Posted by: ExquisiteDragon
Posted by: A Rabid Pie

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Posted by: A Rabid Pie

Posted by: Mereel N7

Syria says the EU sanctions amount to war. its getting hotter...

i have a unconfirmed report of 40 militants escaping a Yemeni prison. working on confirmation now.
here

and since when do sanctions even do anything, let alone constitute war?

also, link for that story
Anyone can start a war for the dumbest reason. Don't think a piece of paper has any power.
Of course, but war is costly and thus usually has some kind of reasoning behind it. "Sanctions are like war" seems like a pretty fail reason to me considering how little they really accomplish. Obviously it's probably just a cover for "we just don't like you." That seems more legitimate to me than such a pathetic excuse.
To a politician, war is really just a game. It's a painful truth...and what's worse, I'm the pawn.
Politics by other means (or as Anakin puts it: aggressive negotiations).

What if, instead of wars, leaders fought each other in one on one death matches?

  • 06.22.2011 9:06 AM PDT

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

LIBYA
Itally has requested a ceasation of hostilities to allow for humanitarian aid, NATO has said no, saying letting up will show weakness that Gaddafi could exploit or time he could use to regroup.

Germany is investigating allegations against Gaddafi and submitting more evidence to the ICC.

SYRIA
Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, has said Assad has lost all credibility.

The Syrian embassy in Britain is under investigation for threatening pro-reform supporters in the country.

Syria accuses the EU and NATO for seeding unrest in the country, and pushing people to revolt. At the same time, he accused al-Qaeda of running the revolution yesterday.

Assad has promised reforms that will turn his country into a 'picture perfect democracy'.

YEMEN
about 40 'al-Qaeda' fighters have escaped a Yemeni prison.

The US Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs will meet with the Yemeni vice-president, and foreign minister

  • 06.22.2011 11:21 AM PDT

Rebel Leaders in Libya's Misrata Curb Press Freedoms as Casualties Mount they say spies are infiltrating as reporters, since its the Rebels its more believable then all of Gaddafi's claims so far.

Syria warns against outside interference

  • 06.22.2011 2:04 PM PDT
Subject: The Arab Spring, Focus on Libya, Syria and Yemen UPDATE384

The cake is a pie

I'm a little confused as to what's happening in Yeman. Why is there contraversy to letting the President back in? Where did he go in the first place?

  • 06.22.2011 2:08 PM PDT


Posted by: Ultermarto
I'm a little confused as to what's happening in Yeman. Why is there contraversy to letting the President back in? Where did he go in the first place?


president was injured in a rocket strike at least 4 weeks ago.

the president is why the country is basically in civil war and why Al Qeida is now all over several Yemeni cities because he let them in. and he wouldn't step down after he said he would 3 times.

  • 06.22.2011 2:20 PM PDT
Subject: The Arab Spring, Focus on Libya, Syria and Yemen UPDATE384

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.


Posted by: Ultermarto
I'm a little confused as to what's happening in Yeman. Why is there contraversy to letting the President back in? Where did he go in the first place?
Cole's notes version of Yemen:
-Yemeni people protest asking for Democratic reform.

-Yemeni president orders troops to fire on protesters, protesters fire back. Civil war breaks out.

-Yemeni president realizes he is loosing when a large portion of his military defects, and asks his long time enemy, al-Qaeda, to come into the country and act as his troops.

-al-Qaeda troops enter Yemen and start pushing their own agenda, Yemeni president orders his troops to try and push al-Qaeda back out, effectively turning the situation into a 3 sided war between the rebels, al-Qaeda, and the Yemeni loyalists.

-in a rocket attack carried out by al-Qaeda, the Yemeni president is hit by a piece of shrapnel and sent to Saudi Arabia for medical attention.

-Rebels and Loyalists call a ceasefire to allow for their forces to enter dialogue about the Yemeni president ever returning and political reforms, while at the same time making a more effective force to push al-Qaeda out.

-The loyalists are saying the president is coming back regardless, and the rebels say his return would throw them back into the 3 sided war.

  • 06.22.2011 3:33 PM PDT
Subject: The Arab Spring, Focus on Libya, Syria and Yemen UPDATE382
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So if Turkey sends theIr military into Syria and china and Russia attack all of NATO do you guys think that they will invade America? I hope they don't. I live in Hawaii and if they do invade this place will be ground zero. I really hope a war doesn't spark
If they do threaten Hawaii a submarine or two located near [redacted] will unleash hell.

I hope the sub's missiles aren't aimed at major population centers, just military targets.
What would you like me to say? They're a nuclear capable platform.

Not that the second a war breaks out, they go on a civilian killing spree, nuking every city and town they can find/are in range of.

  • 06.23.2011 3:02 AM PDT


Posted by: Mereel N7
Rebel Leaders in Libya's Misrata Curb Press Freedoms as Casualties Mount they say spies are infiltrating as reporters, since its the Rebels its more believable then all of Gaddafi's claims so far.

So? That doesn't mean it's not a slippery slope OR that it's the right thing to do.

  • 06.23.2011 5:42 AM PDT

Syrian civilian killings leading to 'civil war' says ABC

To aid Syria Hezbollah may start war with Israel

  • 06.23.2011 8:31 AM PDT
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What happened to the Libyan rebels advance? I thought that Gaddafis troops were all tied up in Misrata and else where and that the rebels would hit Tripoli soon. But i read in Al Jazeera that the advance had turned into another stalemate

  • 06.23.2011 8:57 AM PDT