Fears of extremism taking hold in Syria as violence continues

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13. Can we dispense with snide remarks etc and stick to facts?......

Forgive me if I split your response into three parts.

1. Snide remarks, false claims and simple distractions

I will support any action that I think will minimize death and suffering.......what does that mean?....will you or will you not go and help the syrian rebels?.....and if not why not?

I can’t make this much clearer for you.......What don’t you understand?......I have no plans to go and risk making things worse in Syria.

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again with the religious beliefs?....declaring facts where facts do not exist is the classic sign of the intolerant bigot/believer

A snide remark and unworthy of you.

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"posting" is not a priority with me, i find it amusing that you put such "weight" on it, as if its some kind of statement of ones personality or character

Another snide remark......I only asked to see if you had some written proof of your position at the time of NATO’s involvement.......Your memory is sometimes not very good!

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so i guess that you would be on Gaddaffis side as well...that is your principle is it not?

Why not stop “guessing” and try reading what I wrote in my last post?.....I said I supported the Libyan rebels just as I support the Syrian rebels.

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you really should get out and see the world,

I have spent some 40 years living and working in ten countries in every continent except Africa.....What is your experience of living in foreign cultures?

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so, back to Syria....go and join up or not, they are asking for help, and if not why not?...you claim you "support them", whatever that means in your world (writing comments on blogs?...LOL?)...whats your decision, you seem to have avoided the question.

Your questioning my own intentions with regard to Syria seems to be a deliberate red-herring......You were the one who published the Washington Post article, not me.......I expected you to be able to justify your criticisms just as you expect me to justify mine, but let me be clear, I was not criticising you for not “getting your ass across the border”, I was criticising you for being a hypocrite in telling others to do what you were not prepared to do yourself.

Can we now dispense with such snide remarks, false claims and simple distractions and stick to facts?
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2 Libya and similar dictatorships

NATO went in for oil, that was rather obvious and given the various tribes and their own internal wars, it was pretty obvious what the future had in store. Only the most naive or the believers saw differently.

And your reasons for making this claim are what?

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though i would guess that had NATO stayed out of it , there would have probably been less deaths in a shorter time as Gaddaffi had the greater fire power (see syrian, and hama 1982 for an example)..

This doesn’t make sense to me......”less deaths in a shorter time as Gaddaffi had the greater fire-power”?............Is that what you really meant to say?
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3. Settlement Expansion

Why are you trying to defend the indefensible?
...i can't answer to such declarations.

Come on Pelsar, out with it......Do you or do you not support expansion of the settlements?


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the Palestinians, even under the occupation were given some rights as to their their education and judicial systems,of which they took from jordan and egypt.

In other words, Israel never tried to give the West-Bank Palestinians an education in western values in spite of being the sovereign authority the West Bank .........After 45 years of occupation, road-blocks, settlements and military courts, don’t you think it is about time Israel admitted failure and tried something other than crude repression?


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Why would stopping West Bank settler expansion place Israel or its citizens in a more dangerous position?
This is rather obvious to most israelis, but i shall explain later, as it requires an understanding how the various Palestinians groups prepare for their attacks upon israel and how they are thwarted

I look forward to your explanation of how stopping the expansion of the settlements by civilian settlers would place Israel or its citizens in a more dangerous position.
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