"As I keep telling you, a mistake."
Your earlier suggestion the you "thought we were talking about Libya" was not only a lie, but an extremely stupid one, as our argument continues copnstantly referring to Syria.
The mistake was in, having identified the ammunition sold as sniper rifles/bullets, you never got your story straight, hence you went through six different versions before you settled on "a mistake".
You backed away from your "some sniper rifles" is when you realised what a foot-in-mouth you had made.
"Oil."
And your point is???
As your article underlines, Syria's oil supply is diminishing at a rate of knots and, unless they find more, they are of no use whatever to the US and Britain as an oil supplier as things stand.
"Syria's oil reserves are being gradually depleted and reached 2.5 billion barrels in January 2009. Experts generally agree that Syria will become a net importer of petroleum by the end of the next decade."
Should they prove successful, which will take years to achieve given the state of the country now, not even the US and Britain, with their record of dealing with terrorist regimes ("We do trade with governments that are not democratic and have bad human rights records",)and backing them with a veto at the UN when necessary, will dare have any dealings with Assad.
Assad's heavy handedness has made his regime useless as a friendly voice in the Middle East virtually useless - in the past it has been a case of "he may be a monster, but he's OUR monster", to quote a US statesman when talking about Marshall Ky in Viet-Nam - no longer applicable in Syria.
"the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza."
Yet more Zionist soapboxing - we have no meeting point while you continue to use the fate of the Syrian people as platform for your support for Zionist terrorism. Include all terrorist nations and groups and we might have a meeting point, but not your hypocritical and partisan selectivity.
Nor do we while you indulge in what Kofi Annan described as "finger-pointing". There is blood on the hands of all who have stood by and watched as the slaughter escalates.
The Americans had no problem in becoming involved in the Gulf when its oil supplies were threatened. Britain conducted an illegal invasion of Iraq under the pretence of non- existant WMDs.
Your guardian suggested that it would be "gung-ho" to directly assist the Syrians, yet none of you apologists batted an eyelid when the US sent an invasion force to take out Bin Laden.
TheSyrians have no oil supplies to speak of and, as you have pointed out, they are not to be trusted "I also fear for Syria's Christians if and when the regime falls" so they are left to die while callous bastards stand on the sidelines and support the inactivity (while shedding the occasional crockodile tear.
Now, unless you have anything new to add to your disgusting contribution to the subject.....
Jim Carroll