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Originally Posted by classicman
This displays the fallacy of the UN. Comes back to "Why did we help in Libya and not there? Money, Oil, power, control. The poor people being slaughtered in Syria aren't getting helped because they have nothing we, the countries that could help, want.
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I think that is a little simplistic and completely ignores the other external factors in the region.
Particularly, Iran which has an interest in keeping Assad in power. Or potentially having Hezbollah start shooting Syrian-supplied scud missiles into Israel from Lebanon as retaliation for any Western intervention and then Israel, responding in kind. Not saying it would happen, just that it could happen.
What, we the countries that could help, dont want is to have the region blow up.
06-05-2011, 02:46 PM
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