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wotsamashedupjingl Fri 02-Mar-12 11:07:48

bear. not hear. sorry.

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wotsamashedupjingl Fri 02-Mar-12 11:07:23

They're in there to-day Joan. The need must be so great.

It's so horrible to hear of these 'revenge' killings that may be going on. Whole families. Doesn't hear thinking about. He is a monster!!!

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Joan Fri 02-Mar-12 10:46:53

In 1965 and 1966 I used to go out with a medical student from Homs. We were both studying in Vienna: I was doing languages. We had only one thing in common - a love of arguing! It was never serious between us, but I think of that then 19 year old and wonder if he is OK. I suspect he stayed in the West when he qualified, but I'll never know. His family would be in Homs - it is a sickening thought, really.

I agree about oil being the usual motivator to interfere, but I think the West is realising that it is all so very complicated, and any action usually backfires. I just wish the red Cross or Red Crescent could have got in there properly and helped all the people, and that evacuations could have taken place.

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syberia Thu 01-Mar-12 23:52:31

No, i think it's just that there's no oil as the others have said

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wotsamashedupjingl Thu 01-Mar-12 23:14:57

Perhaps we wasted too much bottle on previous wars, and haven't got any left.

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wotsamashedupjingl Thu 01-Mar-12 23:13:56

We are good at no-fly zones. That would have helped.

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gracesmum Thu 01-Mar-12 23:10:52

You could add Zimbabwe to the list of places we should have taken action long before Iraq etc - but as Jeni says - no oil. What hypocrites politicians are.

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Annobel Thu 01-Mar-12 23:06:50

No oil and a very large army!

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wotsamashedupjingl Thu 01-Mar-12 22:58:22

No. I think you're right jeni. angry

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jeni Thu 01-Mar-12 22:55:08

No oil!

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wotsamashedupjingl Thu 01-Mar-12 22:51:14

How did we manage to "get permission" to fight wars over the Falklands, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, et al, and yet we seem to be incapable of being of any assistance at all to a small town in Syria where children are being horribly maimed, killed, and having their homes blown out from under them.

Why is not possible to give Russia and China the proverbial two finger salute and carry on without them?

I'm not an advocator of war usually, but this is horrific, and so wrong.

How long can good men and women stand by and do nothing?

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