US Diplomats Urge Barack to Obomba Bashar

[Utilitarian Garibaldi]

https://www.google.com/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/36556261?client=safari#

Syria conflict: US diplomats press for strikes against Assad

Dozens of US State Department officials have signed an internal memo protesting against US policy in Syria and calling for targeted military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's government.

They argue the current approach is working against the Syrian opposition and helping Mr Assad to stay in power.

It was signed by 51 mid-to-high level officials who advise on Syria issues.

It is not unusual for internal "dissent cables" to be filed through State Department channels.

However, it is rare to have this number of diplomats voice opposition to a White House position.

The US is back to their neocon ways! But wait they never left, Obama was just afraid strong Russia would retaliate. Now however all the elements of the American Bourgeois Elite want Syria to be bombed. What justification do they give? Because Syria's rightful government has exercised its right to restor constitutional order. What heresy can you imagine!? Bashar meanwhile is treated like a dog by the liberal world elite, and unjustly discredited by the liberal media for his virtuous pursuit of democracy with Syrian characteristics. My sympathies are for the great Baa'th party in its war against the 100% Islamist Pseudo-Saudi Syrian opposition.

[Geilinor]

I don't see the purpose in bombing Assad, it seems like it would only strengthen ISIS's hand.

[The East Marches]

I don't like Assad. He is a snake who has actively sent fighters and weapons against us in the past. However, it would be unwise to attempt to topple him now. That train left the station a very long time ago. While I understand where the diplomats are coming from and I do sympathize with their feelings. I don't know how or why this was released but it was not professional nor conducive to their goals.

Taking down Assad now would not help to crush ISIS any faster. Neither would openly cooperating with him or the Russians too.

[Roski]

Should the US just put half a million troops in Syria and deal with the entire mess? Find out next time on "Guess That Bush Member!"

[Ralkovian Grand Island]

Islamist Pseudo-Saudi Syrian

Quite a tongue twister you have there, friend.

[Utilitarian Garibaldi]

I don't like Assad. He is a snake who has actively sent fighters and weapons against us in the past. However, it would be unwise to attempt to topple him now. That train left the station a very long time ago. While I understand where the diplomats are coming from and I do sympathize with their feelings. I don't know how or why this was released but it was not professional nor conducive to their goals.

Taking down Assad now would not help to crush ISIS any faster. Neither would openly cooperating with him or the Russians too.

Assad should be punished for breaking the ceasefire. A stable Syria is one without the long necked eye doctor, and he ought to be made to understand his only option is to cooperate with the opposition.

[Utilitarian Garibaldi]

Islamist Pseudo-Saudi Syrian

Quite a tongue twister you have there, friend.

I see you edited your post. Something you trying to hide eh?

[The East Marches]

I don't like Assad. He is a snake who has actively sent fighters and weapons against us in the past. However, it would be unwise to attempt to topple him now. That train left the station a very long time ago. While I understand where the diplomats are coming from and I do sympathize with their feelings. I don't know how or why this was released but it was not professional nor conducive to their goals.

Taking down Assad now would not help to crush ISIS any faster. Neither would openly cooperating with him or the Russians too.

Assad should be punished for breaking the ceasefire. A stable Syria is one without the long necked eye doctor, and he ought to be made to understand his only option is to cooperate with the opposition.

I agree he should punished but that can wait. He will never cooperate with the opposition. He will never cooperate with us. Once ISIS done, we can give him a nice festering insurgency to deal with or back a breakaway Kurdish state. We've got plenty of options. Plus old Henry Kissinger is still alive. I'm sure he can cook up some horrible scenario for Assad.

[The Romulan Republic]

Oh look, another person who will defend a man who slaughters and tortures his own people as long as he's against America.

[Allet Klar Chefs]

What's even left to bomb. It's like when the Chinese invaded Vietnam. Fuck's the point. If Assad hasn't gone by now, they aren't going because of a war.

[Utilitarian Garibaldi]

Assad should be punished for breaking the ceasefire. A stable Syria is one without the long necked eye doctor, and he ought to be made to understand his only option is to cooperate with the opposition.

I agree he should punished but that can wait. He will never cooperate with the opposition. He will never cooperate with us. Once ISIS done, we can give him a nice festering insurgency to deal with or back a breakaway Kurdish state. We've got plenty of options. Plus old Henry Kissinger is still alive. I'm sure he can cook up some horrible scenario for Assad.

What if he just goes for the opposition in the time we allot him to go after ISIS? That is what he's doing. When it's all over a little insurgency won't mean much when Bashar's in control of the whole country.

[Allet Klar Chefs]

Plus old Henry Kissinger is still alive. I'm sure he can cook up some horrible scenario for Assad.

Yeah I'm sure it'll be just as effective and necessary as when he saved the Republic of Vietnam.

[Ralkovian Grand Island]

Quite a tongue twister you have there, friend.

I see you edited your post. Something you trying to hide eh?

Yeah, a typo, friend.

I also appreciate the mad pun in the title, pal.

[Roski]

Plus old Henry Kissinger is still alive. I'm sure he can cook up some horrible scenario for Assad.

Yeah I'm sure it'll be just as effective and necessary as when he saved the Republic of Vietnam.

Or when he stopped Israel from nuking Egypt and Syria into oblivion.

[The East Marches]

I agree he should punished but that can wait. He will never cooperate with the opposition. He will never cooperate with us. Once ISIS done, we can give him a nice festering insurgency to deal with or back a breakaway Kurdish state. We've got plenty of options. Plus old Henry Kissinger is still alive. I'm sure he can cook up some horrible scenario for Assad.

What if he just goes for the opposition in the time we allot him to go after ISIS? That is what he's doing. At that point a little insurgency won't mean much when Bashar's in control of the whole country again.

We've got the Kurds among other things. The opposition may be getting hammered but they aren't the only group that can stir up trouble. Great thing about the Middle East is there are plenty of minority groups you can use as proxies. Plus there is the time honored option of just dumping guns to the opposition to make Assad's attempts to take things back even more bloody.

We don't even have to topple him. Just taking a part of his country as a "refugee protection zone" or a Kurdish state would be a pain in his ass. I would like to see him gone but we can't get everything we want.

I'm not a Pentagon guy or national security adviser but I'm sure we've got some fuck fuck games planned for Assad. Hell, Hillary may just do it anyway. She is more of a hawk than Obama.

[Ralkovian Grand Island]

Plus old Henry Kissinger is still alive. I'm sure he can cook up some horrible scenario for Assad.

Yeah I'm sure it'll be just as effective and necessary as when he saved the Republic of Vietnam.

Well we left Vietnam at a ceasefire, it was only when American leftists stopped funding South Vietnam, did the North curbstomp 'em.

[The East Marches]

Plus old Henry Kissinger is still alive. I'm sure he can cook up some horrible scenario for Assad.

Yeah I'm sure it'll be just as effective and necessary as when he saved the Republic of Vietnam.

He saved South America

[Allet Klar Chefs]

Yeah I'm sure it'll be just as effective and necessary as when he saved the Republic of Vietnam.

Well we left Vietnam at a ceasefire, it was only when American leftists stopped funding South Vietnam, did the North curbstomp 'em.

Here's a question, why would you fight for South Vietnam in 1973-1975 as someone living there?

What did the RVN have to offer you after a dozen coups and complete inaction in the face of an American occupation that destroyed the country?

[Conserative Morality]

Too late for that option, boys and girls.

[Allet Klar Chefs]

Yeah I'm sure it'll be just as effective and necessary as when he saved the Republic of Vietnam.

Or when he stopped Israel from nuking Egypt and Syria into oblivion.

Yeah I'm sure that's what stopped Israel nuking Egypt and Syria.

"Well we had the siloes all ready to go but then we rang up Kissinger to check and he nixed the whole idea so we had to stop".

Not

"Hey the holocaust is well within living memory and using our privilege to kill millions of other people would obviously be so unforgivable that the Jews would be driven from the face of the earth, which is sort of the opposite of what we're going for in Israel at least on a theoretical basis".

[Ralkovian Grand Island]

Well we left Vietnam at a ceasefire, it was only when American leftists stopped funding South Vietnam, did the North curbstomp 'em.

Here's a question, why would you fight for South Vietnam in 1973-1975 as someone living there?

What did the RVN have to offer you after a dozen coups and complete inaction in the face of an American occupation that destroyed the country?

It didn't get the chance to regain the people's trust, did it?

[Conserative Morality]

The hell is with all the shitty crusader meme flags recently?

[Roski]

Or when he stopped Israel from nuking Egypt and Syria into oblivion.

Yeah I'm sure that's what stopped Israel nuking Egypt and Syria.

"Well we had the siloes all ready to go but then we rang up Kissinger to check and he nixed the whole idea so we had to stop".

Not

"Hey the holocaust is well within living memory and using our privilege to kill millions of other people would obviously be so unforgivable that the Jews would be driven from the face of the earth, which is sort of the opposite of what we're going for in Israel at least on a theoretical basis".

More "Hey Nixon why don't we give Israel some weapons so they don't fucking nuke the middle east."

[Ralkovian Grand Island]

The hell is with all the shitty crusader meme flags recently?

Does the guy with the Saracen flag have a problem with my crusader privilege.

[Conserative Morality]

Does the guy with the Saracen flag have a problem with my crusader privilege.

... why the hell do you think my flag represents a Saracen?