"Jim, are you closer to Russia and China's stance to keep Assad in power"
Does your stupidity have no limits?
It is you alone on this thread who has proposed that Assad be given equipment to enable him to stay in power.
"Even liberal democracies have to deal with riots.
Non-lethal crowd control techniques are preferrable to live rounds.
If only Syria would restrict its security forces to using tear gas and water. It would not be such a crime to supply such things, compared to what Russia and China supplies." UNQUOTE
It is you who has attempted to cover up the sales of military equipment to what was already a known terrorist regime before all this started, and attempted to suppress discussion on it with a bullying attempt at "thread drift".
It is you who identified the nature of the equipment, claimed that it was unimportant - 'only' sniper bullets, claimed that the sale was too small to be worth mentioning, claimed that it was so long ago that it didn't matter, claimed that there was no sale, claimed that there was a sale, but it wasn't shipped, then returned to a claim that there was no sale in the first place - where do you stand on all this now Keith - you seem to have lost yourself?
You have never withdrawn your proposal that it would be acceptable to supply crowd control equipment to this murderous regime - do you still believe this to be the case?
Nobody is as close to the Russian, Chinese and Assad position as you are - it's all here in black and white.
I very much doubt that your overtaxed fairy godmother would bother his arse to defend your stupidity and viciousness
Jim Carroll