Hmm I see there are already UN missions in CAR and South Sudan.

I agree that a large number of western troops wouldn't need to be on the ground. What is needed is structure and leadership. A lot of the rebel groups looking to take control of areas seem to be very well structured and have a definite purpose (surprisingly the infamous Kony army, seems to have no apparent goal other then to cause destruction)

America and Australia are very good at intelligence gathering and structured strikes. I wonder what a couple of strategic drone strikes could do to these groups.

Using Syria as an example, the place has turned into an absolute slaughterhouse. Bush would have invaded and tried to fix things by force. People would have died and Bush would have copped the blame.

Obama has done two thirds of fkall about Syria, people are still dying but the West and the Left especially are largely OK with it. No blame attached to Obama, or indeed the UN.

Going into Syria on the side of the rebels would have been a huuuuggggeeeee mistake.

Thankfully though Assad is winning.

Thankfully?

Bullshit. There's oil in Nigeria.

African nations being essentially run by warlords make installing a puppet state government and "democracy" near impossible in many african nations.

France intervened in Mali and were criticized. The west has intervened in Somalia and other nations in the past and been criticized. No matter what the west does they're going to be criticized.

Just to add, Afghanistan has no oil either, and they sure as hell didn't invade it for no apparent reason.

Yes. Thankfully.

Going into Syria on the side of the rebels would have been a huuuuggggeeeee mistake.

Thankfully though Assad is winning.

Never said the rebels are the good guys. Both are equally abhorrent. In fact, awful as it sounds, Assad, that murderer funds terrorism and used biological weapons on his own people, is the lesser of two evils.

Writes post about man who kills his own people....calls him less of two evils.

I don't get the italic bit.

So I'll let your clarify before I respond.

Don't get me started on "Osama Bin Laden" and September 11. I don't believe a word the government said about it, apart from the part where 3 buildings collapse, the reason for their collapse and the rest is highly questionable.

Are we going with the Bin Laden CIA spy, controlled demolition, or that the Israelis did it?

Edited by iridium1010: 10/5/2014 01:36:19 AM

I don't get why this is italic.

So I'll let your clarify before I respond.

Edited by iridium1010: 10/5/2014 01:28:52 AM

Christian woman sentenced to death for "adultery" with her Christian husband



A Sudanese court has sentenced a Christian woman to hang for apostasy - the abandonment of her religious faith - after she married a Christian man.

Amnesty International condemned the sentence, handed down by a judge in Khartoum, as "appalling and abhorrent".

Local media report the sentence on the woman, who is pregnant, would not be carried out for two years after she had given birth.

Sudan has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law.

"We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death," the judge told the woman, AFP reports.

Western embassies and rights groups had urged Sudan to respect the right of the pregnant woman to choose her religion.

The judge also sentenced the woman to 100 lashes after convicting her of adultery - because her marriage to a Christian man was not valid under Islamic law.

This will reportedly be carried out when she has recovered from giving birth.

Earlier in the hearing, an Islamic cleric spoke with her in a caged dock for about 30 minutes, AFP reports.

Then she calmly told the judge: "I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy."

Amnesty International said the woman, Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother's religion, because her father, a Muslim, was reportedly absent during her childhood.

She was convicted of adultery on the grounds that her marriage to a Christian man from South Sudan was void under Sudan's version of Islamic law, which says Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslims.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27424064

Don't get me started on "Osama Bin Laden" and September 11. I don't believe a word the government said about it, apart from the part where 3 buildings collapse, the reason for their collapse and the rest is highly questionable.

Is building three the one down the street that 'randomly' collapsed?

People who think that it was a conspiracy and that the government blew it up should FOAD.

You're talking about building 7. I don't know whether it's a conspiracy or not, but building 7 remains the only steel framed building in human history to collapse solely because of a fire. The other two, buildings 1 and 2 are the only other steel framed buildings to collapse because of fire but at least those two were hit by planes.

Building's 7 collapse is hard to believe.

Studied the collapse in 1st year at uni.

Very plausible why it fell down.

People see what they want to see.

Why did it fall ?

Debris hit it.... it caught fire..... the protective coatings which protect the steel against fires (for a certain duration) were not enforced during design and construction because they were not cost effective..... steel and fire = buckling affect on columns which is why it collapsed suddenly.

How there is a conspiracy I don't know. :lol:

But does that explain how the whole building gave way and fell at almost free fall speed? Sure I can understand the half of the building that was hit giving way and collapsing but for the structural beams on the other side of the building to also give way at the same time.

I guess it's pretty easy to make a conspiracy out of it when you don't dig to deep.