I've had Astenion blocked for quite awhile. Highly recommend this defensive action.

Will have to avert my eyes from any quoting or the stupid will infect my mind.

I've had Astenion blocked for quite awhile. Highly recommend this defensive action.

Will have to avert my eyes from any quoting or the stupid will infect my mind.

Seems kind of weak to have anyone blocked. Why do words frighten you?


Edit: Astenion, "unlike" this post this minute. It was a general response and not meant to lend any support to you personally.

The best cadavers are the profitable ones.
but seriously, buying stock isn't war profiteering. Buying up all the grain, then waiting until the government finally pays you 10x it's worth is war profiteering.

Sure. And buying stock, looking to profit, when the Syrian civil has been going for two years and counting, where thousands have lost their lives is just ******* dandy?

Not just thousands, but over 100,000.

Oh, gee. Thanks! That makes me feel so much better about the human lives lost.

I'm not trying to make you feel bad, just put things in perspective at how much of an atrocity it is. What's more, thousands more will die if there is a war, only now we know there are chemical weapons in play.

Sure. And buying stock, looking to profit, when the Syrian civil has been going for two years and counting, where thousands have lost their lives is just ******* dandy?

Like i said i served in an armoured brigade so my knowledge of aerial matters is limited. But from my interaction with IAF officers in the mess was that the US tends to go for the multi-pronged approach with various sources of attack and basically overwhelm the enemy. While Israel which lacks the punch of the USAF goes for under the radar surgical strikes which are fast and as quiet as possible. Vis a vis the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007 (that publicly even shocked washington in public at least) or ****** in the 80s. Or the recent weapons shipments to Syria.

It wasnt a criticism of the American air force, just an observation from what IAF officers have told me and a few of the serving US crews who came over. They tended to be put through their paces well by the IAF teams who did this sort of things for a living and often finish with a hell of a lot of respect for their Israeli counterparts.

Either way, I'd prefer everyone to stay out of this. God knows what Hezbollah and the IRGC will do in Lebanon and the Persian gulf. And as someone who has a lot of family and friends in Northern Israel id rather not find out.

Like i said i served in an armoured brigade so my knowledge of aerial matters is limited. But from my interaction with IAF officers in the mess was that the US tends to go for the multi-pronged approach with various sources of attack and basically overwhelm the enemy. While Israel which lacks the punch of the USAF goes for under the radar surgical strikes which are fast and as quiet as possible. Vis a vis the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007 (that publicly even shocked washington in public at least) or ****** in the 80s. Or the recent weapons shipments to Syria.

It wasnt a criticism of the American air force, just an observation from what IAF officers have told me and a few of the serving US crews who came over. They tended to be put through their paces well by the IAF teams who did this sort of things for a living and often finish with a hell of a lot of respect for their Israeli counterparts.

Either way, I'd prefer everyone to stay out of this. God knows what Hezbollah and the IRGC will do in Lebanon and the Persian gulf. And as someone who has a lot of family and friends in Northern Israel id rather not find out.

So do all the pension schemes etc and other investment funds which take care of millions of people in the west. They follow the money and buy low sell high just like private individuals. Therefore pension funds could be said to be blood money.

Only way to not make money off anothers suffering if to basically do everything yourself and go on a subsistence living.

Im not trying to justify it, but thats how the world works.

First of all, oil has very little to do with Syria overall. Its based off unknowns regarding Iran for the most part based on how they might react to a US strike and the threat to tankers in the gulf as Iran has threatened to close the straits of Hormuz multiple times should they be drawn into a conflict in the USA.

It all revolves around fear. The peak oil times of 2007/08 had nothing to do with conflict, it was rampant speculation based on fear. The same way everything works.

And buying oil futures is based on my clients needs. You may as well go and rail at all those involved in the financial sectors who play eve. The world isnt a nice place.

Im not profiteering from Syria. I dont like the death and in a civil war both sides lose. But I still feel its not enough reason for western powers to be involved. According to polls in the states theres only a 9-12% backing for an invasion of Syria. Hardly mass support is it? Id imagine Europe feels the same.

The Saudis and Jordanians have lots of pricey toys, they should try using them for once rather than cheering onward christian soldier like they have been since the first gulf war.

Ah, it's clear now. Your original post made it sound like you were armchair general-ing USAF employment doctrine. Hope I wasn't too harsh.

My sincerest apologies, Graygor. Your initial comment about investing in oil stock made it sound like you were looking to make money off the war in Syria and it literally made me see red.

CNN Headline:

'Syria is not easy to swallow'



Yeah. It'd be like a really large, dusty mint or something

I'm more terrified about what Assad has already done.

Right now our armed forces are telling our PM that we do not have the ability to take on assad because his cuts mean we have no carriers, few fighterbombers and the army is critcally undermanned.

Best we can do is to use a trafalga class sub to obliterate a few targets but cause no real damage.

Here be truth and the voice of experience

The opinion from the ME is that Obama and congress have climbed so high into that damned tree that they wont be able to get out.

This could well be a war of "lets have a war as we dont want to lose face."

You know, the Chinese are right. Everything does work in cycles.

Welcome to 1913 everyone.