US-led airstrikes kill 52 Syrian civilians in a day, not 1 ISIS fighter – monito

[Saint Milei]

Thanks for ending the wars you unrestrained warmonger

http://rt.com/news/255105-us-strikes-syria-isis/

[Beet]

Stuff like this will only turn more and more people against the US-backed Syrian government.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Not that I don't believe this, but I rather have another source than Russia Today.

[Ebowed]

Also being reported on Australian TV presently by ABC.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

muh freedumbz and dumokrasy

[Cory]

sh**t happens.

[Adam Griffin]

Horrible news; warmongering administration!

Let's also keep it in perspective, since we have so many teenagers commenting in this thread: these policies originate from somewhere, and at the very least, their application hasn't resulted under the current administration in the deaths of a million people.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

War is a sh**tty thing. Doubt you'd find many people who disagree.

[Lief 🗽]

Obviously horrible, but many more civilians will die if ISIS isn't destroyed.

[SATW]

Obviously horrible, but many more civilians will die if ISIS isn't destroyed.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Has anyone blamed George W. Bush for this mistake yet? 

[Mr. Reactionary]

Has anyone blamed George W. Bush for this mistake yet? 

4 comments above yours.

Apparently BOOOOOSH is still to blame even though Obama is on year 7 now.

[Zioneer]

Has anyone blamed George W. Bush for this mistake yet? 

4 comments above yours.

Apparently BOOOOOSH is still to blame even though Obama is on year 7 now.

Well, he kind of started the whole thing. Nobody would have to had dealt with stuff like this if Bush hadn't done his thing.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Has anyone blamed George W. Bush for this mistake yet? 

4 comments above yours.

Apparently BOOOOOSH is still to blame even though Obama is on year 7 now.

Well, he kind of started the whole thing. Nobody would have to had dealt with stuff like this if Bush hadn't done his thing.

Wait, ISIS wouldn't exist of Bush hadn't done blah blah blah?

[Bacon King]

Has anyone blamed George W. Bush for this mistake yet? 

4 comments above yours.

Apparently BOOOOOSH is still to blame even though Obama is on year 7 now.

Well, he kind of started the whole thing. Nobody would have to had dealt with stuff like this if Bush hadn't done his thing.

Wait, ISIS wouldn't exist of Bush hadn't done blah blah blah?

Strictly speaking, if Saddam wasn't ousted from power then there never would have been a power vacuum in Iraq that allowed ISIS to emerge in the first place

(although if we're speculating with perfect hindsight then he would have probably been toppled during the Arab Spring anyway but who knows how that would have turned out)

[Mr. Morden]

(although if we're speculating with perfect hindsight then he would have probably been toppled during the Arab Spring anyway but who knows how that would have turned out)

Assad is still holding on in Syria, so I don't see why Saddam would have "probably" been toppled in the Arab Spring, in the event of no US intervention.

(Though that is a question, how likely is it that there would be no US intervention, years after 2003, by Bush or some other president?  Were we going to enforce the no-fly zones forever, and not really push it much farther than that if there had been some attempted uprising in the 2000s or 2010s?)

[Rockefeller GOP]

They hate us because of our freedemz!!!!1!!

And people wonder why other countries despise us?!

They don't.

[Sumner 1868]

They hate us because of our freedemz!!!!1!!

And people wonder why other countries despise us?!

They don't.

Their citizens typically do.

[ingemann]

They hate us because of our freedemz!!!!1!!

And people wonder why other countries despise us?!

They don't.

Their citizens typically do.

For most foreigners awareness of USA is just the last pierce of American pop culture popping up on their national scene, they don't give sh**t about a bunch of bombed Arab peasants. Unless you borther them USA are not even in the top ten over despised foreign nations, because all their neighbours or former colonial masters are above you (unless you're one of those rare countries who like your neighbours).

[Bacon King]

(although if we're speculating with perfect hindsight then he would have probably been toppled during the Arab Spring anyway but who knows how that would have turned out)

Assad is still holding on in Syria, so I don't see why Saddam would have "probably" been toppled in the Arab Spring, in the event of no US intervention.

(Though that is a question, how likely is it that there would be no US intervention, years after 2003, by Bush or some other president?  Were we going to enforce the no-fly zones forever, and not really push it much farther than that if there had been some attempted uprising in the 2000s or 2010s?)

yeah, that's what I mean - the Arab Spring would have brought uprisings against Saddam, which the US would have been backing probably to the extent they backed the rebels in Libya