Posted on 11/03/2012 9:36:27 PM PDT by tselatysr
Sounds like Assad paid off a key Shiite cleric to say that Alawites, who don't attend mosque, and say Ali (not AllaH) is their god, are Shiite Muslims. Unfortunately for Alawites, this pro forma statement doesn't seem to have percolated down to the popular level, where Alawites are considered apostates, to be killed on sight.
Anybody who rapes women and murders children deserves to die.
You sound like an Iranian propagandist from presstv.ir.
Then the Sunnis in Syria deserve to die.
Innocent women and children don’t deserve to be raped and murdered by Assad’s savage animal thugs.
You sound like a misguided neo-conservative who thinks inside every foreigner is an American trying to get out. 2/3 of Egypt voted for the Islamist parties. Tunisia has an Islamist leader. Ultimately, an Alawite-run Syria is no threat to us because of the continuing infighting endemic to minority rule, but a Sunni Islamist Syria will pose serious challenges.
As to Iran, I think we should impose a no-fly zone in Iran, destroy its air force and air defenses and flatten its nuclear facilities. That was how we ended Saddam's nuclear program, and that success shows the way forward. I don't understand all of the BS continually spouted by the talking heads about how Iran's nuclear program is indestructible.
But innocent non-Sunni women and children deserve to be slaughtered by the Sunni rebels? What about the innocent American men, women and children who will be targeted right here at home once the Sunni rebels establish a Taliban-style Islamist regime in Syria? We've lived with an Alawite regime in Syria for decades without a single Alawite terrorist attack here, whereas Sunnis have launched dozens (successful and thwarted) of terrorist attacks against us with the 1993 and 2001 WTC and Fort Hood attacks being the most well-known.
I don’t really care about what kind of muslim Assad is, it is the fact that he is a genocidal socialist dictator guilty of killing US soldiers in Iraq that really bothers me.
Assad has harbored many Sunni terrorist organizations including al-qaeda. He is only getting what he deserves.
A bit of sub racial resentment at play here
Anyone who can....usually....votes anti traditional white
Its a siren call these days
Alawites did not kill US soldiers. Sunnis did. A lot of the Sunni rebels fighting Assad now were involved in killing GI's. Heck - Iraqi Sunnis who attacked GI's are now in Syria trying to topple Assad. We told Assad to have his army fight Sunnis in order to prevent them from crossing over to Iraq to fight GI's. Given the difficulty he's having in suppressing the Sunni rebellion, it's pretty clear why he balked. (He probably figured we were cynically using that ploy to lure him into a domestic quagmire so as to topple him). Note that I'm no Assad sympathizer. Before 9/11 and the response to that event from Sunnis worldwide showed the unappeasable cruelty and ferocity of Sunni public opinion, I would have cheered this Sunni rebellion. Sunni Islam has finally shown its hand, and we are better off for knowing it, despite all the casualties we've sustained.
Assad let Sunnis terrorists hide in Syria and cross into Iraq to kill US soldiers. Now they are properly thanking him for supporting their anti-American jihad.
Assad has never harbored al Qaeda terrorists. Besides, how much support can an apostate ruler really afford to offer al Qaeda, whose ideology is to kill infidels in the most gruesome ways? 40 years of Alawite rule and what you allege to be support for al Qaeda has yielded 0 terrorist attacks on American soil whereas less than 10 years of Sunni Islamist rule in Afghanistan yielded 1 attack on 9/11 that killed 3000 American, and dozens of attacks and plots since then.
The Syrian regime felt threatened and felt that it, too, might fall," Fares recalled. "So they had an agreement with al Qaeda to keep the road open to Iraq. The militants started coming from all over the world through Syria, under the eyes of the Syrian secret police, which are directly responsible for the killing of thousands of Iraqis in Iraq as well as Americans and coalition forces. "The secret police were encouraging enthusiastic young people in Syria to go for jihad in Iraq and join al Qaeda," Fares continued. "Bashar al-Assad and his security forces are directly responsible for the killing of thousands and thousands of Iraqis and coalition forces, because he gave al Qaeda everything it needed. He trained and provided shelter and he built safe havens for them to hide in." One of these "safe havens," Fares said, was the Syrian border village of al Sukariya, near the border city of Abu Kamal. In response to the accusations, a senior U.S. administration official said that Fares' claims about the Syrian government 's cooperation with al Qaeda during the war in Iraq are "broadly consistent with our understanding." "Since 2003, al-Assad allowed al Qaeda and associates to facilitate weapons, money and fighters to al Qaeda's Iraq-based affiliate, setting the conditions for those same elements to shift from Syria-based facilitation to active attacks -- this time focused against the al-Assad regime," the official said." - LINK
Actually, I'd say he made the right move* in not interfering with the Sunni jihadists crossing into Iraq - Uncle Sam's $1T investment in Iraq simultaneously drained the coffers of Sunni financiers of jihad and killed off the most motivated jihadis to the point that they were too few to topple Gaddafi without NATO support and will be crushed by Assad unless NATO intervenes. GWB said "Bring 'em on". I view Assad's war against the Sunni rebels as the continuation of the battle to decisively break the spirit of the Sunni holy warrior. As with the defeated Axis powers, Sunni holy warriors must not only be defeated, they must acknowledge that they have been defeated.
* The only move he could make, given the political constraints of being an infidel ruling a Sunni-majority country.
Sunni defectors will say anything to ingratiate themselves with the West. Sunnis say that Jews use blood of Muslim children (whom they ritually slaughter) to bake Matzohs.
Funny thing though I see things from my point of view, not his. Go figure.
Assad said the Jews “tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.”
He also gave Americans a chance to decisively defeat a generation's worth of Sunni holy warriors in Arabia. In retrospect, that is the one saving grace of the Iraqi campaign. We defeated them in a stand-up fight with everything they could throw at us, and no one can deny that. GI's slaughtered them until they were sick of dying and ran away in fear. Of course, Obama and the neo-con idiots have frittered that victory away by helping Islamist governments and al Qaida veterans take over in North Africa, but that's a subject for another day.
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