Russian ambassador killed

[Soap]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/201 ... ce=copyurl


There's a video of the whole thing but not worth seeing.

[mojo84]

The guy remains and continues shouting his message long after shooting him. Where was the security response? Just think if citizens could have been armed.

WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/19 ... nkara.html

[Soap]

Turkey is not our ally. We need to stop supporting them.

[The Annoyed Man]

Where was Hillary Clinton when this went down? LOL

[The Annoyed Man]

The guy remains and continues shouting his message long after shooting him. Where was the security response? Just think if citizens could have been armed.

WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/19 ... nkara.html

They must have pulled that video, because nothing I saw showed anything happening.

Here's a direct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdCvaxPnICI

[AJSully421]

One thing I know for sure... the media is going to tell us that this was not islamic terrorism.

[Soap]

One thing I know for sure... the media is going to tell us that this was not islamic terrorism.

Well isn't it terrorism responding to terrorism?

[mojo84]

The guy remains and continues shouting his message long after shooting him. Where was the security response? Just think if citizens could have been armed.

WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/19 ... nkara.html

They must have pulled that video, because nothing I saw showed anything happening.

Here's a direct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdCvaxPnICI

Yep, looks like they switched videos.

[Beiruty]

One thing I know for sure... the media is going to tell us that this was not islamic terrorism.

Well isn't it terrorism responding to terrorism?

Terrorism is an overloaded word.
In short, it is successful assassination of a diplomatic figure in retaliation for a religious-sect cleansing in Syria. What happened in Aleppo is war genocide. A metroplex City as big as Dallas was destroyed regardless of who was there, if you watch some videos of infants being pulled out of the rubbles after an Air Strike, you would hate all kind of wars regardless of its political intent. It is World War 3, were US (and their allies) chickened out from the fight after so many red lines were drawn in the shoreline sand using clear lipsticks.

Not to blame anyone or condemn this against that. In the name of Freedom, a million or so lives were destroyed and 5-6 millions were forced to leave their homeland. In the name of fighting terrorism, the same genocide happened.

[ScottDLS]

All George W. Bush's fault...Oh...yeah and Cheney, and the neocons.

[Beiruty]

All George W. Bush's fault...Oh...yeah and Cheney, and the neocons.

First, we got the new world order.
Then, it was called the New Middle-East.
Now, it is simply death, destruction and few millions of refugees.

[Charles L. Cotton]

Turkey is not our ally. We need to stop supporting them.

Not an ally in the traditional western sense, but Turkey is a NATO member and we most certainly need our bases in Turkey. Turkey also has the second largest army in NATO next to the U.S.

Chas.

[rotor]

One thing I know for sure... the media is going to tell us that this was not islamic terrorism.

Well isn't it terrorism responding to terrorism?

Terrorism is an overloaded word.
In short, it is successful assassination of a diplomatic figure in retaliation for a religious-sect cleansing in Syria. What happened in Aleppo is war genocide. A metroplex City as big as Dallas was destroyed regardless of who was there, if you watch some videos of infants being pulled out of the rubbles after an Air Strike, you would hate all kind of wars regardless of its political intent. It is World War 3, were US (and their allies) chickened out from the fight after so many red lines were drawn in the shoreline sand using clear lipsticks.

Not to blame anyone or condemn this against that. In the name of Freedom, a million or so lives were destroyed and 5-6 millions were forced to leave their homeland. In the name of fighting terrorism, the same genocide happened.

I would not sacrifice one American life for all of the people killed in Syria. It is a tragedy and it breaks one's heart to see pictures of dead children. Doesn't mean that we "chickened" out of a fight. Not every fight is our fight.

[Charles L. Cotton]

Without getting into the U.S. involvement/fault in the Syria fiasco, there's a factor that Obama and his administration never mention. Syria is predominately Sunni Muslim, but Bashar al-Assad is Alawite as are a minority of of Syrian citizens. The Sunni want to annihilate the Alawites because they don't consider them true Muslims. The only reason the Alawites in Syria haven't suffered the same fate as the Jews in Nazi Germany is because Assad and his Alawite military leaders control the country.

When the Syrian revolt or whatever you want to call it began, Alawites were worried and with very good reason. When the U.S. announced that Obama had drawn a "red line" (apparently in disappearing ink) in Syria, Alawites started flooding into Lebanon trying to escape the coming genocide by Sunni Muslims, in the event Assad were to be overthrown. Now, because of the carnage of civil war, refuges are not only Alawite, but Sunnis as well. That's what happens when you start a civil war and are willing to kill anyone and everyone who disagrees with your position on anything. When you have the U.S. supporting the so-called rebels who are as violent as those they oppose, with Russia supporting the Syrian government, you have a formula for a humanitarian disaster. Undoubtedly war crimes were committed, but apparently by both sides with each blaming the other.

I'm sure some are wondering how, or perhaps if, a white Baptist guy from Texas knows so much about the region and the players involved. It's because of our church's outreach in the Middle East. I mean direct contact, not merely providing funding to other organizations.

Chas.

[Beiruty]

One thing I know for sure... the media is going to tell us that this was not islamic terrorism.

Well isn't it terrorism responding to terrorism?

Terrorism is an overloaded word.
In short, it is successful assassination of a diplomatic figure in retaliation for a religious-sect cleansing in Syria. What happened in Aleppo is war genocide. A metroplex City as big as Dallas was destroyed regardless of who was there, if you watch some videos of infants being pulled out of the rubbles after an Air Strike, you would hate all kind of wars regardless of its political intent. It is World War 3, were US (and their allies) chickened out from the fight after so many red lines were drawn in the shoreline sand using clear lipsticks.

Not to blame anyone or condemn this against that. In the name of Freedom, a million or so lives were destroyed and 5-6 millions were forced to leave their homeland. In the name of fighting terrorism, the same genocide happened.

I would not sacrifice one American life for all of the people killed in Syria. It is a tragedy and it breaks one's heart to see pictures of dead children. Doesn't mean that we "chickened" out of a fight. Not every fight is our fight.

But foreign politics is a mess and it is worse than diving in your backyard pig pit. I support Freedom, but not extremism, terrorism, nor barbarism. No promise should have ever been made to support the FSA or any other entities in Syria. However, the US foreign diplomacy played its weak hand and Russia and Iran called the bluff.