Bombing Syria

SirRumpole said:

Well I agree your point is valid, but to use an analogy.

There are groups of rival bikies trying to carve up the drug industry. The bikie wars spread out onto the streets and innocent people are getting hurt in the crossfire. Who should sort out that situation ?

Assad is a Commanchero, ISIL are the Bandidos, where are the police ?

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If the locals are unable or unwilling to sort it out themselves, do they have the right to expect someone else to do it for them?

The fact is the west went through much of this hundreds of years ago.

Show me there's a credible plan, what each stage milestone will look like, what victory or the positive end goal looks like, then I'll ruminate on if it's worth the costs and risks to Australian lives.

At present I'm sceptical of the Govt, especially when so many of them were probably ignoring any of the evidence that Saddam wasn't much of a threat to anyone outside Iraq.

sydboy007 said:

Show me there's a credible plan, what each stage milestone will look like, what victory or the positive end goal looks like, then I'll ruminate on if it's worth the costs and risks to Australian lives.

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War isn't a construction project. If you say "we are going to do this, and then we are going to do that", the enemy will know your plans as well as you do.

At present I'm sceptical of the Govt, especially when so many of them were probably ignoring any of the evidence that Saddam wasn't much of a threat to anyone outside Iraq.

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Of course, everyone is sceptical of our flag wrapped Prime Minister, with good reason.

I don't really want us involved in the war. And if we are not involved in the war then we can say we didn't create the refugee problem and therefore we have no responsibility to help them.

The closer they move to Israel the more pressure will be brought to bear on the US. The Israelies have been itching to drop a nuke ever since Saddam decided to give them the irrates.