[Milagros]

Or the 1982 massacre resulted in 50,000 dead.

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Toward freedom - Volumes 48-49 - Page 3 - 1999
Saddam Husseins use of poison gas on the Kurds in Iraq and Hafaz Assad’s massacre of 50,000 Muslim Brotherhood militants in Hama, Syria in 1982 resulted in those nations being ostracized by the United States and its western European allies
http://books.google.com/books?id=UBsMAQAAMAAJ&q=50%2C000+1982

[slowhandluke]

I'm not sure of the point being made here. Is it that the Alawites are murderous sort-of-muslim Arabs? Is that supposed to be a big deal? I don't see that they are any less murderous than the other muslims contending for the position of top dog. Blaming all deaths in a civil war on the winning side is not an honest argument.

The only thing I get out of this is that we should have an open door immigration policy for Christians from the Middle East, or possibly declare Lebanon to be a Christian country and defend them on that basis.