As NATO countries look to cut defence budgets, can they afford to intervene in Syria?

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  • Dan Nowak - 12 years ago

    NATO will never intervene in Syria. Unlike Libya, Syria is far from helpless resulting in large numbers of NATO casualties. Most importantly as Syria has no oil that needs to be made safe for democracy the Assad government is immune from NATOs righteous furry.

  • Hangman - 12 years ago

    lol, Dion just ripped that Cons to shreds,lol.

  • Hangman - 12 years ago

    We do "NOT" need more politicians, they are "NOT" doing the work as it is.
    We do "NOT" need to be Wasting taxpayers money building more troughs for Harpers gang of Oinkers.

  • Mark Carr - 12 years ago

    Why are we becoming such warmongers? We don't need to be trying to become a military power at a time when the global economy is threatening to collapse, or ever for that matter. Is this because Syria is an enemy of the ever-expanding Israel? Why did we allow the slaughter of so many thousands in Somalia and other African countries without raising a finger? Leave the Middle East alone and go back to being a country the rest of the world likes.

  • Mark Carr - 12 years ago

    Why are we becoming such warmongers? We don't need to be trying to become a military power at a time when the global economy is threatening to collapse, or ever for that matter. Is this because Syria is an enemy of the ever-expanding Israel? Why did we allow the slaughter of so many thousands in Somalia and other African countries without raising a finger? Leave the Middle East alone and go back to being a country the rest of the world likes.

  • Randy - 12 years ago

    As a free and democratic society, I can only imagine what the world would look like now had Hitler's regime won the war in Eur0pe. Not to compare but...can we afford to ignore the atrocities in Syria and still feel safe?

  • Angela baker - 12 years ago

    NATO should leave it to the Arab states. Allow it to develop into a civil war. The West cannot continue to behave as if it was the world's. Policeman. If the UN were a truly democratic body without vetoes for the "big wigs" then there could be UN intervention if a size able majority voted for protection of abused citizens of a particular country. The white biases West & NATO take no action to protect Africans from being murdered en masse.

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