dagblog - Comments for "Syria as Tonkin Gulf" http://dagblog.com/link/syria-tonkin-gulf-13051 Comments for "Syria as Tonkin Gulf" en Consider it considered. Libya http://dagblog.com/comment/149557#comment-149557 <a id="comment-149557"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/syria-tonkin-gulf-13051">Syria as Tonkin Gulf</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Consider it considered. Libya provided the template for turning "Responsibility to Protect" into "regime change." The same cast of characters is following the same game plan here, except that this time Russia and China aren't buying in, so any intervention will at least lack UN authorization.</p> <p>Now that the "peaceful protesters" have started using suicide bombers and Al-Qa'ida has given the rebellion its seal of approval, I wonder if any of the western nations that have been so quick to back what they anoint "the Syrian people" will have second thoughts. Probably not. For those leading the call to military intervention, Damascus is just a steppingstone to Tehran.</p> <p>I did a post about "the official narrative." It's very clearly at work here.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:41 +0000 acanuck comment 149557 at http://dagblog.com