[quote=“Gkhan, post:617, topic:210298, full:true”]
Then why didn’t we bomb Syria after it was first used before the Russians got there? You never answered that question, not here, not in the other thread because if you did you would be proven wrong. Admitting this would be admitting not backing up the red line threat with military action made America look weak.
Tell me how it makes America look strong? The Russians came in, took Syria’s chemical weapons, the Syrians used Chlorine, a chemical, which you now agree is a chemical weapon, yet we did nothing to retaliate against the Syrian regime. How does that make America look strong? [/quote]
You are a bundle of confusion.
Again:
This
has
precisely
nothing
to
do
with
the
post
you
excreted
into
this
thread,
initiating
this
disagreement
between
you
and
me.
I reproduced that post of yours word for word a half hour ago, and in doing so I showed you beyond the possibility of doubt that the point you made vis-a-vis the JCPOA/Syrian Chem weapons deal was
A. Dumb
and
B. Utterly unrelated to this ^ above.
I then told you all about whether or not I was going to follow you through an addled, free-associated ad-lib of non-sequiturs on which I have previously destroyed you in debate. Here’s that part:
[quote]
Jesus. You’re so confused about this that you don’t even know what your own argument is. It’s astounding.
None of this ^ has anything at all to do with what you posted in opening this little tour of your own ability to befuddle yourself…
[On the topic of what] you are suddenly and inexplicably babbling about: I (and Bis, Sexmachine, and Varq, iirc) already held your hand through the “red line” over the course of a painful thread that is fully in the past. I will not be doing anything of the sort a second time. Dig the last one up if you want to relive the thrill of wasting other people’s time.
I’m not going to respond again unless your next post makes logical sense and suggests to me that you have read and taken the time to understand what I wrote here. I promise to you that I am really good at following arguments and this is a precise and perfect summary of ours. That I had to summarize for you a discussion to which you were party is troubling and pathetic, but so it goes.[/quote]
Again, I already spent a bunch of time in a long-gone thread within which I tried to help you work through your extravagant confusions relating to the red line, what happened before it, what happened after it, what the chem weapons deal told us about Assad and Putin’s belief in Obama’s willingness to bomb Syria, and so on. That thread was fun while it lasted, mostly because of Varqanir, but it was also an absolute disaster from the perspective of someone who is looking for a good debate. Because – and this was apparent to everybody – you didn’t really know the basic facts about the situation, and the rest of us were forced to teach you all about what it was you were trying to argue about with us. Now:
I
am
not
going
to
do
that
again.
Aight?