Holy shit...Palin got this one right!

[Korgoth]

I'm for doing nothing. Secular Dictator or Islamic Republic. Whats the best case situation, Turkey? What's the worst case Afghanistan? Yeah, stay out.

[Mormolyce]

So the Tea Party is advocating non-interventionism? Well good for them having an ounce of sense in their pound of crazy!

But I suspect that the real line is "non-interventionist in countries we don't have strong commercial interests in".

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I'm for doing nothing. Secular Dictator or Islamic Republic. Whats the best case situation, Turkey? What's the worst case Afghanistan? Yeah, stay out.

Pretty much this for all Middle East conflicts past present and future.

Mmm, guess it's subjective whether you consider worst case Iran (hostile rogue nation) or Afghanistan (blood soaked chaos). Lawful evil or chaotic evil, take your pick!

[The Penguin]

She's only right if she's too stupid to grasp that the context of that phrase implies "kill 'em all" in front of it. If she's not quite that stupid, then she's a murderous asshole. I guess if I had to pick between stupidity and murderous tendencies with her... hard to pick!

Were you just going out of your way looking for a reason to insult someone?

[Cthulhu 2020]

So the Tea Party is advocating non-interventionism? Well good for them having an ounce of sense in their pound of crazy!

But I suspect that the real line is "non-interventionist in countries we don't have strong commercial interests in".

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Pretty much this for all Middle East conflicts past present and future.

Mmm, guess it's subjective whether you consider worst case Iran (hostile rogue nation) or Afghanistan (blood soaked chaos). Lawful evil or chaotic evil, take your pick!

You can bet if Syria had oil or some other ultra valuable natural resource, we'd be bringing democracy to them in a heart beat.

[kunah]

Dimwit Palin is just being a armchair quarterback. See Captain Obvious.

[RaoBurning]

She's only right if she's too stupid to grasp that the context of that phrase implies "kill 'em all" in front of it. If she's not quite that stupid, then she's a murderous asshole. I guess if I had to pick between stupidity and murderous tendencies with her... hard to pick!

Ignorance before malice, and all that.

But, her attempted snark aside, I think a hands off approach probably is best; minus the genocidal humor. It sucks when people go around murdering each other for political control but this feels like an Alien vs Predator moment: whoever wins, we lose.

[Deleted]

This was inevitable. The current people in power have only continued to go against the will of the American people, and I say enough is enough. If anybody in their right mind elects people that keep involving us in useless wars, spy on us every second of our lives, tear apart our bill of rights, and label whistleblowers as traitors, we're screwed. Stop voting for morons in state elections, in senate elections, in house elections, in local elections, and in the Presidential election.

[Deleted]

By all means let Syria become a Sharia muslim controlled country with lots and lots of training camps. One would think that the lesson Afghanistan is teaching right now would get through to even a potato head like Palin. Guess not.

[Djuntas]

Best case scenario is the extremists all wipe each other out on their own, let them. They hate us, we should not be coddling them. They've made their bed, they can sleep in it.

This. I will bet neither side is any good, but if we we're to help Syria it would be to help civilians only. That situation is getting out of hand, and that should be the main reason to consider help Syrian rebels, even trough its not a good choice, but band-aids to help Syrian is just a waste aswell.

Denmark already sended some 50+ million dollars to Syrian now to help out, kinda of a waste. Trough we don't need more damn muslim immigrants coming to Europe so, helping rebels might be okay

[N-7]

I can just envision the condescending and ultimately racist way in which she presented that statement; as if their belief in their deity is somehow backwards and humorous, but her own belief is something that should be praised.

The thing is their Christians' god (the father?) and Muslims' god (Allah) is really the same god (entity), to me she appears to be mocking her own religion but whatever.

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Religion is th sole cause of this war. Sunnis and Shi'ites have been hating each other for centuries

Yeah that is the reason why they attacked a secular country ruled by a minority, it has nothing to do with representation at all and the terrible conditions that the majority were living in. You got me.

Some are in it for this 'holy' war but it is far from the majority and to think that proves that you're not aware of the political, religious and social structure in Middle East at all.

---------- Post added 2013-06-17 at 04:18 PM ----------

Pretty much this for all Middle East conflicts past present and future.

Mmm, guess it's subjective whether you consider worst case Iran (hostile rogue nation) or Afghanistan (blood soaked chaos). Lawful evil or chaotic evil, take your pick!

Why of course when a big evil country meddles on the affairs of somewhat weaker neutral countries, they tend to turn evil.