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   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:13:48 -0500, Free Lunch wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:56:02 +0000 (UTC), Zepp  wrote in   
   > alt.atheism:   
   >   
   >>On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:59:31 -0500, Free Lunch wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:33:04 -0700 (PDT), Kurt Nicklas   
   >>>  wrote in alt.atheism:   
   >>>   
   >>>>I'd like to know how many folks in these groups support the planned US   
   >>>>intervention in the civil war in Syria.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Basically, a "Yes" or "No" is sufficient but if you want to provide a   
   >>>>few sentences supporting your opinion, that's fine.   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes or No is never sufficient. Those are the answers of the   
   >>> unthinking.   
   >>>   
   >>> I have no idea what intervention is planned, so I cannot possibly   
   >>> support a pig in a poke.   
   >>   
   >>Have you EVER seen a ground intervention in another country's civil war   
   >>that went well?   
   >   
   > There have been several from the past that were used as an excuse to   
   > extend empire successfully. Modern-day intervention with the idea of   
   > allowing the country to survive intact after the civil war? Seems   
   > absurd.   
      
   I assume the casis belli given is a lie. It almost always is.   
   >   
   > Could someone tell me what the Kurds have done that unite Turkey, Syria,   
   > Iran and Iran against them?   
      
   They want to be their own sovereign nation.  Said nation would include   
   large chunks of Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. That they are indigenous to   
   the region, and have their own culture and language, and thus have a   
   legitimate claim just increases the fury of the other nations.   
      
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