Syria reaction is making me embarrassed to be American

[Fit1NYC]

I feel ashamed. America in the 80's used to be my hero, my love, my pride.

Now we are planning to go into another war we can't afford after 10 years of war, on the possibility of a chemical attack that is unconfirmed.

Didn't we learn out lesson when this argument was used by Colin Powell with weapons offs destruction.

Shame on America and shame on me for not being able to stop it

[WertDerFerk]

It isn't about a chemical attack, it's about oil.

[mattryken]

OP one of the very few posts who has made sense and has a minimal understanding of the current events. GJDM

[voxel]

It isn't about a chemical attack, it's about oil.

Huh? Oil? Bitch, you cookin'?

[Manimal3]

12 yrs of war....

[mfitty9000]

America will become a joke of a country if they go to war over this crap. It's Syria, who gives a flying fukc about Syria.

[juicyraper]

i need cliffs of wat is going on in syria

[MyAvatar]

lol
We need to stay out. Let Syria deal with its own problems, even if it means they self implode.

[g152013zicam]

its not oil because the U.S. by 2030 will be the largest petroleum supplier in the world. ( think saudi arabia status )

[urdaddyishere]

policing the world, one nation at a time.

[bking10]

we really need to just sit this one out. if there is some type of human rights violations then im fine with helping, but we should not take the lead

[pwoL]

Eisenhower didn't warn everyone about the dangers of the military industrial complex in his last speech as president for nothing... shiet is srs business and how this country operates. Lol if you think there's going to be a period in America's forseable future without some kind of war going on.

[bigpoppi18]

its not oil because the U.S. by 2030 will be the largest petroleum supplier in the world. ( think saudi arabia status )

this the US has the largest non conventional supply of oil in the world. just dont have the technology or methods to mine it efficiently

shale/oil in sands/ etc

[merrybrah]

lol at anyone who thinks usa is doing this for "peacekeeping"

Syria is Russia's main ally in the Mediterranean, and the location of their main warm water naval base, the current regime has been pretty moderate politically and if the rebels win there's a possibility of a more extremist government put in place that will bend more to Russian influence and threaten the US position in the region/Israel.

[ChorizoFit]

It isn't about a chemical attack, it's about oil.

Wrong.

It's about freedom.

[cashinout]

what do you mean we "can't afford"?

do you realize how beneficial war is in economical terms

[mattryken]

i need cliffs of wat is going on in syria

Cliffs are pretty damn long if you want the whole story but here are the 'cliffs for dummies'

Syria been in civil war for the past 2 years
Assad (Current president) regime fighting with 'rebels' over control of Syria
Mainstream media reports Assad uses chemical weapons on civilians (illegal in the eyes of the UN laws)
UN inspectors go to Syria, 'confirm' Assad's side did it and give the green light for Obama to invade
Turns out there isn't much actual proof Assad did it, US supporters (UK, France) appear to be backing off
Obama gon' do it anyway

policing the world, one nation at a time.

Policing? I think they call it 'liberating' the nation hahaha

[wnc817]

It's not about oil, it's about "securing the realm" for Israel:

http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm

[DrunkenKangaroo]

America will become a joke of a country if they go to war over this crap. It's Syria, who gives a flying fukc about Syria.

Israel cares.

[seanb1979]

but we need to blow up ay-rabs for jesus!

[cashinout]

America will become a joke of a country if they go to war over this crap. It's Syria, who gives a flying fukc about Syria.

Do you know where Syria is on the world map? a pretty strategic location actually

[seanb1979]

what do you mean we "can't afford"?

do you realize how beneficial war is in economical terms

it used to be when we actually made all of our own stuff, but now its done through outside contractors, so it just ends up costing us a boatload of money and running up our debt... the war in iraq did nothing to help our economy

[Treme]

Messed up world we live in.

[IronSh33k]

It's not about oil, it's about a natural gas pipeline that Qatar wants to build that passes through Syria and ends up in Europe (providing Europe with cheaper inventory). This would kill Russia's business.

We're involved bc we get to sell tons of weapons to Qatar & Saudi Arabia. If this war really goes down, sad to say this, but it will actually avoid a global recession that's dawning upon us.

[fugd]

[SycoDan]

Feels bad for the US brahs who are going to be going over there, stay safe

[iLifts]

Do you know where Syria is on the world map? a pretty strategic location actually

this, also russia has a naval base there.

BRB new puppet government
BRB ask russia to leave
BRB merican naval base

[Efre]

, the current regime has been pretty moderate politically and if the rebels win there's a possibility of a more extremist government put in place that will bend more to Russian influence and threaten the US position in the region/Israel.

you just went full retard

[Market_Pantry]

It isn't about a chemical attack, it's about oil.

. they have very little oil. the oil prices will fluctuate because people trading oil are idiots, but the actual overall percentage of the world oil production is extremely low.

[THE SAINT]

what do you mean we "can't afford"?

do you realize how beneficial war is in economical terms

Its only beneficial to big corporations