Posted on 05/19/2013 7:53:38 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Despite President Obama’s assertion on Thursday that he reserves “the options of taking additional steps, both diplomatic and military,” foreign intervention in Syria seems a distant prospect, and that, along with a string of military successes, has fueled the perception that president Bashar al-Assad now has the upper hand in his country’s bloody civil war. As Republican Sen. John McCain bluntly put it this week: "Right now, Bashar al-Assad is winning."
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Al-Assad could help change his image if he’d tell everyone what was in those planes and trucks Sadam sent to Syria.
Better the Butcher in power than the Butchers of al-Qaeda seizing power. It’s too bad those Muzzie maggots will not fight to the last man leaving exactly one Syrian Muzzie left.
Your post confuses me a bit. By all accounts Bashar has been far more tolerant of Christians than the jihadists will be.
Yes, Russia will have “won”, but as Obama is backing jihadists, what is a better alternative?
Syria will now be weaker no matter what. If Bashar wins, Syria will be unsafe for non-alawhite Muslim organizations. That has got to be a better alternative for the U.S. and Coptic Christians than a new Islamic republic.
Frankly, the Russians no longer give away good equipment, so a better armed Syria isn’t in the cards. Get another generation of jihadists to die in Syria, and we are the better for it.
You really shouldn't...
But, Assad Pest Control, Inc. spraying those roaches is actually doing us a favor!
If our current jacka$$ administration wants to arm the rebels, clearly, Assad is the better party to support.
What a magnificent fustercluck.
The jihadis want to exterminate the Saud and “liberate” Mecca - as they attempted to do with the assault on the Grand Mosque.
The Iranians want to exterminate the Saud and “liberate” Mecca for their imam - and restore the Fatamid caliphate of north africa (when shia islam ruled Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, etc etc etc).
It’s pretty obvious why foreign powers are scrambling to have their player win in Syria (well maybe not so obvious).
Whichever side wins we are screwed.
It’s a modern art masterpiece.
Obama doesn’t want Assad toppled...this would make it clear that Saddam’a wmd are in Syria.
What they want is for the US and NATO to enforce a no fly zone.
right now he's trying to get the rest of his family out of Syria .... I don't think anyone's under any illusions that Christian's remaining in Syria are going to be "treated well" irrespective of the outcome.
Correct, which doesn't bode well for Christian's left in Syria whether or not Bashir Al-Assad wins and is left with weakend support and a weakened military.
Yea, I knew an Egyptian Copt that was trying to do the same over there, even before this lovely Arab Spring. Needless to say, it’s much worse now.
I obviously can’t blame anyone wanting to leave Syria now, but millions of Christians will be left back there - if they throw in their hand with Assad, they just might be able to live out their lives...maybe. But any of the other sides will simply exterminate or at least expel them, immediately.
If he has killed all of the domestic opposition (Islamists) Syria will be stronger internally, while weaker externally.
This bubbling crap casserole is but an event in the ongoing campaign to end Saudi rule of Arabia.
The main hazard to them is Iran and some sunni factions that oppose the Saud.
SA is upheld by western powers and targeted by every faction that opposes the west. The Saud have been walking a tightrope over destruction for decades.
The media reports little of the turmoil in SA (and area) and this is turmoil that has spilled into Syria. Make no mistake - Iran, AlQaida, and the Ikwhan Mussulman (Muslim Brotherhood) each want the Saud gone and control of the Hejaz and the Eastern Province oil fields for themselves.
If either side prevails in Syria it bodes trouble for the West. Russia of course knows time is on the side of Iran and is backing their play.
And we have our fearless leader backing the rebels.
This is organized lunacy on a Marx Brothers scale - whichever side wins, we lose.
Setting aside morality (neither side has any)...the best outcome for the rest of the free world is Assad struggling to rebuild Syria’s infrastructure for the next decade or two under persistent insurgent attacks. What would be a better realistically foreseeable outcome?
No, they don't. Stop making things up.
Thanks to the media few know of the blood feud between Iran and Saudi Arabia that is driving the turmoil in the middle east.
It is an ancient feud arising from sunni islams’ “betrayal” of shia islam over the centuries. Even now the Saudis blatantly discriminate against their shia minority. The Saudis violently suppressed the shia in Bahrain with US consent.
The sunnis destroyed all shia shrines in Arabia and even in other countries.
This is a hate match that makes the Pak-India grudgefight seem tame.
The crazy thing is the parties to this Meccan wrestling match - you have Iran in one corner with Hezbollah, AQAP (AlQaida Arabian Peninsula) in another, and the Muslim Brotherhood in yet another, all going after the Saudis.
The AQAP are Arabian but consider the Saud decadent western lackeys, and are ultra Wahhabists who consider all other muslims apostates - they are allied with the MB, but the MB are pan-arab and represent many of the muslims AQAP consider unholy apostates.
The MB are caught between the shia and AQAP. The AQAP descend from the Ikwhan movement that destroyed shia shrines and butchered non-wahhabi muslims before being suppressed by the Saud. They have no love for many of the MB’s “apostates” but hate the shia with a mindless passion.
The conflict in Syria is these three gutting each other for the right to wipe out the Saud.
The Russians and possibly the MB see Iran as the eventual winner - which makes AQAP the “extra prince”. Considering that most african muslims are of a school that distrusts Hanbali/Wahhabism, it wouldn’t take much for them to throw in with Iran (which they have probably already done).
However the point of all this abomination is the destruction of the Saudis.
I trust that anyone old enough to remember Vietnam and the Iranian Revolution won’t be surprised when a Democrat is president and the faction our government supports is losing.
The Demagogic Party only supports our allies during that first blush of public opinion — as that subsides, they return to their anti-American agenda.
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