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Originally posted by @SaintBristol
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Edit button is pretty obvious too.
Besides, I don’t think how you can make that charge with any credibility whatsoever.
Am I not talking to TedMaul “hit and run” SaintBristol? Yes, that post required a shitload less effort than my usual large posts. Stretch to a few paragraphs and then we’ll talk,
I have a few issues with that article SB, the first being that I don’t think Emma Graham Harrison has ever been anywhere near Syria but that’s by the by.
How about this paragraph:
“For the young in particular, rebel-held Aleppo offered the wild liberties of an unfiltered web. “On the other side of the city was regular Syrian government that block everything they don’t want,” said Halabi’s son, the activist and journalist Rami Zein.”
Putting aside the image of a juvenile’s shangri la in Eastern Aleppo (how does this sit with you?) why haven’t we heard from JOURNALIST and activist Rami Zein before? Where are his Aleppo reports? After all a fucking 7 year old can run a Twitter update service from ‘rebel’ held areas.
Oh hang on, he was so weak from hunger that he had to sleep for 15 hours per day.
Maybe if these ‘rebels’ hadn’t been stockpiling humanitarian aid food supplies he wouldn’t have been so hungry?
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I read it the other day Ted. A tale about how despondent the legitimate rebels are now they have lost. Strangely no mention of the far Greater number of terrorists that have left as well.
This quote from the article sums it up(in my opinion at least).
They gambled, they lost. Seems a shame until i remember that there was a very large number of terrorists(yes Cameron, they were terrorists, you lying cunt) amongst them. Would the terrorists have just walked away if the rebels had won, or would they have grabbed power and just maybe been a whole lot worse for the country than Assad? Worth consideration surely.
Maybe it’s time the Americans stopped setting up and funding training camps for terrorists, then supplying them weapons to commit atrocities.
That would be a good start in my opinion.
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Putin is looking good now.
Has the original question now been answered. God bless Ameri… Russia, i meant Russia
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Order of humble pie for the lady please.
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
I refuse to contribute more to a thread entitled Russia ‘resolving’ the Syria crisis, so am starting a new one.
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Originally posted by @pap
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Order of humble pie for the lady please.
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
I refuse to contribute more to a thread entitled Russia ‘resolving’ the Syria crisis, so am starting a new one.
Some interesting stuff on that thread.
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Might merge them at some point, if Lou doesn’t mind “contributing” here.
Glad this one was picked up again.
I deliberately framed the thread title as a question to avoid the nonsense we got. Wouldn’t mind seeing Lou back here for the denouement though.
Originally posted by @pap
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Order of humble pie for the lady please.
Seems unlikely Lou would want to contribute to the denouement if that’s your tone.
Originally posted by @pap
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Order of humble pie for the lady please.
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
I refuse to contribute more to a thread entitled Russia ‘resolving’ the Syria crisis, so am starting a new one.
It appears that I’ve “up voted” that post for some reason. I’d like to make it clear that that’s the last thing I would have done on purpose. Your post is petty and stupid and shows you up to be an ass of the highest order. It’s a shame that you feel the need to belittle others or do a little dance when you get something right (although probably wise to wait and see what happens in Syria).
Fat fingers?
I think your post shows you to be formidable purveyor of hyperbole, at least on this instance.
Lou championed the cause of no holds barred free speech and I acquiesced, a decision I am eternally glad for. It allows people to call me a cunt, but on the other hand, it’s vastly simplifying. We keep off the libellous standard and we’re good.
My entire thread was diverted because Lou didn’t want to contribute to a thread positing the question of whether Russia might be the decisive factor in the Syrian crisis, implying the question was entirely ridiculous in the first place. I’m glad that thread exists, because as Goatboy says, there is some excellent stuff on there.
The question I posed turned out to be entirely valid. Apologies if a small reminder of that causes so much gnashing of Lone Wolf jaws. The bite has been a bit “gummy” lately.
EDIT : Changed the order of the cunt sentence to what I originally intended. Lordy.
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Are you feeling ok? On this page you have made disparaging, silly, petty remarks to Ted, Lou and now me. You posted some nonsense on the Death thread about how we should be discussing more important things (before updating the games thread). You seem to be losing the plot a little.
Oh, also worth re-reading my contributions on that Russia thread. This isn’t about the content of the thread, it’s about you acting like a 5 year old, devoid of any class.
Fair enough guv.
Your recent contributions on this thread have been nowt but ad hominem. We’ll leave it there.
I don’t think tone comes into it.
If we were still on TSW and someone had gotten something so horribly and provably incorrect, no-one would bat an eyelid if that poster were pulled up on it.
Why is this any different? And how are you detecting “tone” from two sentences?
In contrast to Fatso I absolutely did upvote Pap on purpose. I find Coxford Lou’s ravings to be abhorrent and I am glad that I no longer stumble across them with any regularity.
If the denouement is the resolution of the Syria crisis, then I think that knot is going to stay knotted for a long time yet.
Has Russia played a significant role in changing the landscape? Certainly, metaphorically and unfortunately physically in Aleppo.
Is the Syria crisis resolved?
No.
It’s a lot further on to being resolved than it ever has been, at least for the Syrians. The involvement of Turkey, the historic truce and the rapid re-acquisition of territorial integrity is stuff the Syrian government could only have dreamt of three years ago.
The truce, it must be said, excludes groups identified as terrorists, so there’s going to be work to do clearing out the last remnants of ISIS, al-Nusra and other assorted nasties. The aim will be to separate the actual moderates from the rest of those still fighting, mercilessly crushing the head-chopping remainder.
So I know it’s not resolved, but absent some huge and overt push from the West to further bolster the extremists, it’s got to be near the beginning of the end.
Some words on Lou. I’m generally a fan. She adds levity to the site when she visits, and encourages a great deal of participation from other posters, witting or not. I’ve met her in real life; we’ve frequently had beers and have sometimes walked to St Marys together and had some great one to one chats.
Someone getting a little chop after they’ve stuck their neck on the line is usual business on a forum. Happens to me all the time here, and on TSW. For all Fatso’s complaints, it’s precisely the sort of thing he does himself, and very well he does it too. I haven’t seen him complain when I’ve referenced “Our Tony Pulis”, an early Poch era piss-take of another poster on another forum.
I reckon a double standard is being applied here, and Lou really doesn’t need your protection. She’s an intelligent capable woman who doesn’t need help to debate me. Fatso did her a disservice by debating in such a dickish way in her apparent defence.
Fats; you’ve recent previous form for assuming the worst. Maybe it’s something that we swap; I remember a period where I simply didn’t get your brilliant and well signposted humour. I know better now. I genuinely don’t see why you felt the need to launch into those attacks on the basis of that post.
Humble pie ain’t a bad thing; I ate a lot of it over the BAP episode, and I’m fucking glad I did. If I’d not admitted my massive error, I’d never have heard the end of it. As it went, I fessed immediately and actually got some respect for it.
We’re all going to be wrong at times. I’ve always found it easier to admit the error than compound it.
