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Syria’s Elites Find Time For Fun As Country Burns
Vocativ ^ | May 28, 2015

Posted on 05/28/2015 8:14:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

From their Instagram feeds they appear to be just like other young people enjoying the summer time: backflipping into water, chilling at a pool bar, basking in a sundrenched meadow. But the photos belong to a group of Syrians who have maintained their privileged lives, despite the war ravaging their country.

They’re Alawites, the country’s minority sect and its elite. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and many in his ruling government belong to the group, which comes from a strand of Shiite Islam. They dwell in Tartous and Latakia, perched on the Meditteranean on the Syrian coast, where there are few scenes of war or famine or retribution from the Assad regime to haunt them. Still, some insist the war is never far away.

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TOPICS: Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alawites; classwarfare; iran; lebanon; media; mediabias; mediasloth; poolparty; putinsbuttboys; recyclednews; syria; tartous; vladtheimploder; waronterror
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1 posted on 05/28/2015 8:14:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Get it while the gettin’s good, I guess.


2 posted on 05/28/2015 8:19:11 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The propaganda is so transparent on this era. Syrian alawites, bad,,,,, lol. Gosh, I guess we should support Obama and McCain in their efforts to bomb in behalf of the “moderate” rebels.


3 posted on 05/28/2015 8:20:50 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Jonty30
Syria’s Elites Find Time For Fun As Country Burns

Just like the "Elites" of all other countries..., our own included!

4 posted on 05/28/2015 8:21:48 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: MinorityRepublican

I see moslems acting the way they all should. Quick, we better support Jihadis that want to end the fun.


5 posted on 05/28/2015 8:22:44 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: ExSES

yep


6 posted on 05/28/2015 8:26:11 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I don't get what the article is aiming for. Are we supposed to hate these people for enjoying life while the rest of the country is suffering? They aren't the ones beheading people. Is Assad a dictator? Yes, but now that we see the alternatives, he doesn't seem that bad. Should we hate them for being military age and not fighting for their country? Probably. If they had any patriotism and want their country to survive, they would be fighting. I guess they have an escape plan.

But Americans aren't dying. so whatever.

7 posted on 05/28/2015 8:27:15 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: DesertRhino

Syrian Alawites are secular, tolerant of other minorities including Christians. They're everything the Islamic State hates.

8 posted on 05/28/2015 8:28:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: DesertRhino

I don’t believe for a moment we are building a moderate muslim force to take out Assad and ISIS. what will happen when ISIS takes over Syria? Iraq?
I’ve read our pilots are furious at the rules of engagement while the idiot plays golf and ISIS gets more of our equipment.


9 posted on 05/28/2015 8:30:56 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: MinorityRepublican

It won’t be long before we’re calling them refugees and bringing them here to the US.

I am kind of guessing how this plays out.


10 posted on 05/28/2015 8:36:14 PM PDT by boycott
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To: DesertRhino

German bayonets, 1914.

The people that Obama (who is not a muslim) is turning over American military equipment and munitions to are actual savages, beheading and executing moderate Syrians, destroying civilization.
But this article would have us believe that said Syrians are on holiday, laughing all day long while sipping Dom Perignon.

This could be the White House’s Josh Earnest delivering its daily dog-and-pony show.


11 posted on 05/28/2015 8:37:13 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: DesertRhino

I still can’t understand what the US government is trying to achieve in Syria. If i have it right - we are trying to replace the only government they have know, the secular, minority Alawite Assad, to be replaced with Sunni/ISIS chaos.

Because of such stupidity by the likes of Obama and McCain, the only conclusion one can come to is Syria is indeed being punished because of oil politics - we can not have a Syrian/Russian veto on Arab/Saudi oil and gas pipelines to the Mediterranean.


12 posted on 05/28/2015 8:39:21 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

It is interesting how the leftists hate Arabs/Muslims who have a tolerant, more of a secular viewpoint. These same leftists do everything they can to make excuses for violent Islamists.


13 posted on 05/28/2015 8:40:14 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The virtual clone to this article down to the picture context was posted on FR about 3 years ago when the Syria mess started. Same subject, same circumstance, same photo type and location (pool party).

No. No propaganda pr plagiarism of propaganda here.


14 posted on 05/28/2015 8:46:56 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good for them.


15 posted on 05/28/2015 9:00:35 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: DesertRhino

Excellent post.

F this absurd headline.


16 posted on 05/28/2015 9:04:01 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: ExSES

Exactly...my feelings...


17 posted on 05/28/2015 9:05:53 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: ExSES

yep


18 posted on 05/28/2015 9:18:56 PM PDT by BBell (Pacifists are the parasites of Freedom)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Same subject, same circumstance, same photo type and location (pool party).

I remember that article.
19 posted on 05/28/2015 9:25:20 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

Damn near identical wasn’t it?


20 posted on 05/28/2015 9:43:46 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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