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Who is as worried as I am?

Our foreign secretary states that would be OK to enter conflict in Syria without UN Mandate have they forgotten what happened before when we did something similar and still bear the brunt by loss of lives to our troops, I wonder if he would have the same attitude if he was eligible to fight alongside our soldiers I hope MPs have more common sense than he appears to have, =KEEP US OUT= no more losses of our lads

Update:

There is one answer that does agree with sentiments I have expressed many times, on this site and others, it is their war not ours, as was the others we entered, at the cost of many soldiers, I was always under the impression that our British army was for the defense of this country Not, ,to be involved with far off disputes for OIL .

Why should we take a leading role again here is the UN totally useless ?I feel the answer is that we as a country are a soft touch for anyone and his uncle, time to take a strong stance and show the british bulldog before it is too late or, is it already too late?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Regardless of the UNI am convinced the west is being sucked in to support Muslim terrorists.

    The kind who execute unarmed police conscripts, unarmed prisoners are beaten and murdered, catholic priests are be headed, and the videos are posted in YouTube to satisfy the blood list if like minded terrorists.

    Assad has no need to commit these gas attacks....the 'rebels' have everything to gain....and looking at some of the footage I doubt much is genuine.

    Propaganda and lies are the norm in this part of the world.

  • 8 years ago

    I'm as much against this as I was about the war in Iraq - what Assad is doing goes against human rights and everything that the UN stands for.

    Hague (and his predecessors) are doing are ignoring the wider issue and that is that the UN is flawed, anyone of the 5 permanent members have a veto - these 5 are the victors in WW2 and it gives them disproportionate amount of power.

    Economically 2 of these 5 are making money by supplying goods, service and probably arms to Syria and therefore supporting the Assad regime and therefore will never give a mandate to stop him.

    It is now time to rewrite the rules of membership of the UN and remove the veto - give all countries an equal say and work as one world to stop these situations from happening.

    If Hague wants to resolve the issue he needs to do what others haven't and propose fundamental changes to the UN - however that means he needs to give up the UK's veto and I don't think the UK is ready for that yet.

  • Norman
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    I'm not worried it's their conflict not ours, top brass won't be itching to send troops or ships over under the guise of a humanitarian occupation. Once boots are on the ground it's an occupation and it's likely the rebels and government forces would resolve their own differences and attack us once we start liberating them from all of that nasty oil.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I'm worried.

    Government have been busy retiring off the cream of our armed forces, are we actually going to have enough trained proficient man-power to enter a long & chaotic conflict?

    I think not.

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  • 8 years ago

    I say we go in providing we get some territory over in the Middle East which will prove quite strategic in the inevitable conflict with nuclear Iran.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Kerry was against war when Vietnam was going on. He is a traitor to our Vietnam Veterans, and to this Country. I was upset at the hypocrisy coming from this man, when I heard his speech today. Mitt Romney was right when he said to Obama - You only pick losers (John Kerry is one of those losers). We need to stay out of Syria's ''CIVIL WAR''.

    ''John Kerry - Anti-War Speech (1971) [short clip]''

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixdveuf0GQ

    Source(s): I am more pissed right now (about the Obama administration getting us involved in another war) than anything else.
  • 8 years ago

    I'm shaking in my boots

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    WW3 is on its way!!

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