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What's missing is Condy and Powell at her side to lie for her . . .

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But ultimately the difference will be that they won't act unilaterally (if they act at all) on trumped up 'charges' and invade.

I don't see a taste for an invasion. I think that there is a desire to repeat Libya. BUT... Syria is HEAVILY armed. WAY more than Libya. They have consistently been heavily armed by the Soviet Union, and that relationship has been maintained by the Russian government.

In the 1970's and 1980's, Syria and Israel were used as test labs for ground and air warfare by the US and the USSR. I can recall receiving briefings on the tank battles in the Golan as part of a design and tactics seminar for the next generation of anti-tank wire guided missiles in the early 1980's.

Syria is a way harder nut to crack than Libya, or even Iraq circa Desert Storm.

All very true cbelt...

Syria is the same country that Israel has her way with it anytime she wishes. Wasn't it just couple of years ago that Israel bombed their nuclear facilities and they had to learn about it on CNN? If you want to argue against getting involved is one thing but don't make Syria what it is not. We could ground their aricrafts in one day.

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It's kind of remarkable that the righties have for the most part left Hillary alone. I would have expected the brand of steady vitriol that Pelosi is blessed with.

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It's kind of remarkable that the righties have for the most part left Hillary alone. I would have expected the brand of steady vitriol that Pelosi is blessed with.

Her short stay in the Senate seemed to persuade most if not all of her right-leaning peers that she was a solid, intelligent and hard working person worthy of their respect. So I don't think there's been much organized effort to include her in the daily talking points emails to the media, which in turn has allowed her to slip off the righty radar.

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Introducing an unpredictable new element into the Syrian crisis, a news agency said on Monday that two Russian naval vessels with marines on board were ready to head for Syria to protect Russian citizens and a naval base there, in what would be the first known reinforcement of Moscow’s military presence since the start of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

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