What To Do About Syria

[idiotbaba]

The Western Media is lying big time about Syria. I travel frequently to Syria and all my friends are of a mixed group, Muslims, Christians, Alawis, Druze, Shi'i, Communists, Atheists, etc. They all support Bashar al-Assad, the only people against him are the Saudi funded Wahabi terrorists and the Western Hypocritical nations.

Pray for the safety of Syria!

[Prospero]

Well that is one view idiotbaba... though I would encourage others to read widely and explore other ideas on this. There is considerable and immense opposition to Assad which started way before the involvement of Saudi Arabia or international Jihadists. Assad continued in his father's tradition of slaughtering his own people... after what were originally peaceful protests. It is a sectarian conflict now - with Hizbollah and iran- and indirectly - Russia which has its own islamist problems) funding and supporting Assad. This has the potential to be a regional war - and possibly a wider conflict than that.

[nitron]

Nothing, this is an internal matter, this is between two groups, both internally and externally. If you are a secular liberal , or secular humanist,this has nothing to do with you. All I see is two bigoted religious groups,and at there helm are cloaked psychopaths using them as cannon fodder for there own selfish ends. We should look to our own houses, we have enough problems within our own lands.

[yosi]

[Ben]

Lying About Syria, and the Lying Liars Who Lie About the Lying:

http://warisacrime.org/content/lying...ie-about-lying

[Ben]

[Prospero]

But? The whole region is poised on the brink. We should stay out.

[BellaAmore]

I agree, Its going that way though isn't it!

I think that the images of those babies lined out on the floor packed out with ice blocks will stay with me for the rest of my life! They could have been sleeping! All those beautiful and deserving lives ended so unforgivably

There really are some dirty barbaric people in this world!

(PS Yes its me... Non work related, just me, wanting to socialise and join in with the conversations)


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But? The whole region is poised on the brink. We should stay out.

[broncofan]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/politics/us-syria

It looks like there will be a military response. I'm not sure what the extent of the response will be, but I think it will probably be fairly significant. Hagel has said that U.S forces are ready for action. Then again, they could simply let the time pass, but after all this talk, it would be difficult not to act.

It does have the appearance that the region is locked in a constant state of war. Whether there's a bloody revolution and democratic elections or a military coup and no elections, one faction always seems unwilling to tolerate the status quo.

Peaceful protests lead to government crackdowns, but then again any sort of protests do look like a threat to the current order given what we've seen in Egypt, Syria, and Libya. Obviously in Syria we're well past the point of protests and into a bloody civil war. But regardless of the outcome of this fight, what next? I don't mean to be cynical, but what next...there seems to be a dynamic here that is not beyond our ability to describe, but well beyond our ability to resolve or even mitigate.

If we stay out people die, if we get involved people die, but we might temporarily assist in bringing about a regime change. But that wouldn't be the end of it.

[trish]

I can’t begin to describe the emotions that are sweeping over me as we undoubtedly prepare for some kind of military strike on Syria. Like BellaAmore the vision of those poisoned bodies hovers over my retinas when I close my eyes. Now the dread of yet another decade of war in the MiddleEast looms just as we are about to draw a previous decade of horrible war (and the economic Earthquake it brought in its wake) to a simpering and tentative close. More soldiers with traumatic head wounds, more amputations, more lives lost and ruined, and more money down the dark sucking drain of grief and greed. I’m sick. I don’t want anything to do with it. But the moral-immoral pull of it is irresistible. We seem to be beyond the point of escape. I hate sand and fucking red-lines that men of power draw in it.