Eva

Shame on those two countries.

Kix

Eh?

Autonomy

Can only agree.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...n-russia-china

I just hope there is a swift and for the general population bloodless end to this.

Norm_uk

Only one of those countries has anything close to a democratically elected leadership...so shame on one of those countries and shame on the unelected dictators of the other.

The UN is morally bankrupt - look up UN Watch for more info.

N.

Eva

There is a new British born 'Czarina' allegedly in Russia tonight!

I am thinking immediately ..out damn spot.

Eva

Ok,give you that.

Mood(the UN OIC) circumspect and most likely tallying his pension.

Kix

The British have supplied loads of weapons to Syria, and still do.

That is disgusting.

Beakersful

Everyone supplies everyone with weapons, equipment and training. It's a historic profession. Luckily most of the gear we supply can be easily wiped out in the case of having to fight our 'business partners'. I'm reminded of a signature on a large Brit military forum:

And also note that our universities, our sacred seats of learning, are also a place where those involved with the Arab Springs (on the wrong side?) received education and training. Google, "university military english" and you'll get the picture.

Eva

I am told this is true,yes it's disgusting.
The American Govt allegedly facilitate the cocoa trade in South America.

Rabbie Burns wrote about it...it's called man's inhumanity to man ...
Greed.
Syria is different.It's gone beyond that ffs....

Autonomy

and it's not just about Syria...

you can feel the jitters....

Uzi Rabi, director of the Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University, conceded that Israel's position was precarious.

"Syria as a failed state poses a great threat. It already harbours Islamic Jihad and al-Qaeda. Israel cannot afford to allow the dual threats of this new Syria and Iran," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...elease-footage

Eva

Look at StirlingSingle's (sorry I think that's his avi name) account of the learning procedures in the Emirates .They all cheat.Add to that a history of hegemony and nepotism allowing those prominent families to chuck money at the prestigious seats of learning in UK.
Golden ticket to Sanhurst,Oxbridge etc(That money buys two or three kids from UK in red bricks and Oxbridge colleges as well as funding post grads and research students) BP engineers and others helped bring the wealth to these Middle East families so call it payback.
What these students receive in UK's sacred seats of learning is quality objective points of view.Whether that can overcome years of rote and closed minds is imho questionable.

Arab Spring
Not springs.

Eva

YES.
Guess that kid did a lot of thinking over the two years in Guantanamo.
Every day I pray...to Bhodhisattva please don't give the Israelites another excuse to light the blue touch paper.

Beakersful

Ah yes, Saif Gaddafi comes to mind. It obviously failed to overcome there.

Oops, I pluralised the unpluralisable.

Eva

Expand,discuss your point of view instead of taking cheap shots ...

Norm_uk

Agreed, we should invade and annex it instead.

N.