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OK Hanna, I'll bite. I'll try to keep it respectful if you will.



What I hope will happen is that there will be enough of a lull in the fighting to give the Assad government a bit of breathing...

Well, technically, I made no such commitment. What I said was "I've argued only with what you have written in this here thread", which is in the past tense.

But I take your point all the same....

Turkey is worried about a potential flood of refugees over the border in the event of a full-on civil war, and is also starting to experience a swing in public opinion against Assad and some protests...

See this is the point, Hanna. I've argued only with what you have written in this here thread, while you have argued not with anything I've actually said, but with a caricature of me that you've...

I don't see why that matters. You were talking to a Brit who is "enamoured of the Land of the Free etc.." Since no one in this thread, including Eric, has said anything that even suggests they are...

Right. So you're speaking to imaginary people then. Fair enough, I suppose.

Who are these Brits who are "enamoured of the Land of the Free etc.."?

Who are you talking to?

Firstly, go on then. What, precisely, did the US government do to "CRUSH" the uprising in Bahrain? As far as I remember it was put down by the Bahraini police with some help from the Saudis, and the...

Yeah, clearly the US were behind all the uprisings against autocratic and corrupt leaders right across the Arab world last year. I bet they even persuaded Mohamed Bouazizi to set himself on fire in...