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Posted on 08/27/2013 10:32:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Same here, they enjoy killing each other, I say let them enjoy themselves, ain't our business.
Both sides are our enemies, Napoleon had a good line about that type of situation, "When your enemy is making mistakes, don't interrupt him".
Syria is not our problem 0bama is.
No...seriously.....if we’re going to attack countries we don’t like the leaders of, let’s go get Cuba! We need another stop for the cruise ships!
Obama is the problem from HELL!
Exactly. We have a jihadist for president who ALWAYS comes down on the side of the most radical Muslims.
Until they see the horrors of the W2 concentrartion camps, gas chambers they will turn a blind eye to it, 0 has made a joke of our Military, and few would want to serve under the marxist!
President Obama to exit Afghanistan. But their heroes—from FDR to JFK—promoted U.S. involvement in more wars than all modern GOP presidents combined.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/10/17/why-liberals-kill.html
Agreed. And there is still a question as to which side is using chemical weapons. I don’t trust any of them. Wish we could get the Christians out of there and let the Muslims have at each other. Of course, the Syrian refugees Obama brings here will not be the Christians.
This might help you understand that there COULD be a peaceful resolution to this mess. It helped me.
Perhaps a peaceful outcome IS possible if we can keep obozo and the Western Military/Industrial Complex out of the process.
If left to their “druthers”, we’ll soon be launching ordnance into Syria in support of the WRONG FOLKS!
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Perhaps THE—major unexplored angle regarding Syria is that the regime, for all its nastiness, represents and defends a sectarian minority there that faces certain violence and possible “religicide” if the Sunni jihadist opposition were to take control.
The Alawis of Syria, a heterodox offshoot of Shi`ism which comprises about 10-12% of Syria’s population, were deemed apostates as far back as the 14th c. by the (in)famous Sunni cleric Ibn Taymiyah (as I wrote about here). This death penalty for them has been resurrected by clerics guiding the likes of Jabhat al-Nusra, the most lethal (and second in size to the Free Syrian Army) opposition group which is fighting to re-establish the caliphate and has no tolerance for Alawis.
The al-Asad regime’s use of chemical weapons (assuming it’s true) is horrific and indefensible under current international law (as least as recognized by Western powers); but insofar as al-Asad and the Damascus government is seen as defending Alawis, as well as Christians, from almost-certain Sunni jihadist slaughter, many in Syria don’t view usage of such weapons as so indefensible.
Instead of indiscriminately launching cruise missiles into Syria, the administration might be better off working with Russia and other powers to re-create the Syria that existed under the French Mandate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:French_Mandate_for_Syria_and_the_Lebanon_map_en.svg)—wherein the Alawis, Druze and Sunnis each had a territorial piece of the pie—and concomitantly persuading the Alawi regime and as many of its folks as possible to relocated to a state centered in Latakia, as well as giving the Syrian Kurds an autonomous region in the northeastern “jazira” (peninsula).
Many guest commentators (esp. on FNC) seem to favor taking out the al-Asad Alawi regime in order to strike a blow at Iran; but one needs to recall why Damascus and Tehran are allied—because no Sunni Arab countries would have much to do with Syria after Hafiz al-Asad and the Alawis took complete power in the early 1970s, and so the elder al-Asad cleverly passed his sect off as Shi`i—even getting the Lebanese Twelver Shi`i cleric Musa al-Sadr to issue a fatwa labeling Alawis as Shi`is before he disappeared in Libya. IF the Alawis were to get support and assurances of safety from a major powers besides Iran, I think it entirely possible they would go quietly into their enclaves around Latakia.
Timothy R. Furnish, PhD
Not at all... we just need to mind our own business unless Israel is threatened... then we destroy whatever is threatening Israel and leave. No rebuilding, no nation building... let the Saudis bring in humanitarian care and let the Russians build back their destroyed countries and then die in huge numbers for doing so.
No it isn’t. Syria is not a problem for us. We have zero national security interest in Syria. A bunch of muslims are trying to kill each other. Get out of their way and let them have at it. Let Allah sort it out.
Thank you!
A very well reasoned well presented post!
A great opportunity to rid the mid east of future nukes from Iran, whilst Assad will have to fend for himself.
Best opportunity of forming a coalition to take out the strong-man and free the Persians of their misery!
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