Posted on 11/28/2015 10:28:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
This video brilliantly explains Syria's four-year civil war became so complicated, as we teeter on the edge of becoming militarily involved in it for the first time.
Taking us from the first protests against Assad's regime in early 2011, the Vox video explains how different factions emerged over time and the war evolved into a confrontation between regional powers as well as the US and Russia.
Next time someone argues for or against whether we should bomb Islamic State in Syria as if it's straight forward, suggest they watch this.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.co.uk ...
You have to be bat poop crazy to assert that Syria has had a four year civil war.
Two short words : Cluster Flop
I meant the whole mess in the Middle East Obama created.
How about adding that Turkey, our supposed ally, has been buying ISIS oil? The U.S. knows and did nothing to stop it until Russia started bombing. Then before bombing the oil trucks, we dropped leaflets to tell them what was coming.
Or that Benghazi was really about arms going to ISIS-affiliated groups (’moderate terrorist groups’)?
Where did Syria get its chemical weeapons?
Jim, any competent high school chemistry student can make chemical weapons.
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Easy as building a clock, eh?
Call me a troglodyte but maybe it is as simple as quit lopping each other’s heads off or we bomb you to oblivion. You don’t have to lay blame for a fire before you have the right to try to stop it.
And I think this is talking about stuff requiring a trifle more infrastructure, too.
Talk about convoluted and failed . . . How about this timeline:
2002: Bush 2 proclaims Syria as part of the axis of evil.
2006: US embassy attacked.
2008: Claims of N. Korea assisting Syria in nuclear arms and WMD's.
Of course, Barack Hussein stating that Bush 2 policies are a failure, institutes his own new policy . . .
2009: Sanctions lifted, trading is launched. Immediate cash begins to flow.
2010: Barack Hussein posts first ambassador after 5 years.
2011: Syrian security forces shoot and kill protesters.
2012: Civilians in Houla are gassed.
2013: Civilians in Ghouta are gassed
2013: Barack Hussein states that US forces should strike selected targets in Syria
2014: Syrian forces shoot down a Turkey Airline
2015: Barack Hussein, A Legacy of Failure: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-v-micallef/a-legacy-of-failure-obama_b_8324094.html
Hey . . . Barack Hussein, can we talk about convoluted and failed policies?
Whats that you say? Oh yeah, my bad. Its all George's fault.
Should have never bombed Assad, the most dumbest thing ever Obama did.
We had to get an environmental impact statement from the EPA before we could bumb.
I don’t think he ever bombed Assad, He did bomb Quadaffi and that was stupid.
Does it include the part about Hussein creating a vacuum of power in the middle east by running away from Iraq, which led to the rise of ISIS?
2007: Nancy Pelosi (then Speaker of the House of Representatives) visits Syria, and virtually sits on Bashar Assad's lap.
In 2006, Democrat Party John Kerry and Chris Dodd, both of them members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited al-Assad (minus the lap dance, I assume) as mentioned near the bottom end of the below CNN link dated March 30, 2007;
More on that visit;
Washington Post editorial, April 5, 2007;
National Review, Tom Rogan,
Nancy Pelosi's national-security policy rests on short memories and her contempt for voters.
- Nancy Pelosi, May 9, 2014
That wasn't just a slip of the tongue. Evidently, Pelosi was so enamored by "somebody"'s quote that she had to repeat it to the world. She really shouldn't have.After all, whatever individual voters might think about the domestic politics of Benghazi, celebrating boredom or disinterest in the murder of four Americans doesn't look great. Especially coming from a former speaker of the House. Still, no one should be surprised. This is just the latest burp from the intellectual black hole that is Nancy Pelosi's national-security policy.
To begin, let us remind ourselves of a trip that then-Speaker Pelosi made back in April 2007. Against the wishes of the Bush administration, Pelosi went to Syria and met with Bashar Assad. During that visit, Pelosi made a rather remarkable statement: "The road to Damascus is a road to peace." Even then, before the Syrian civil war, there was an extraordinarily toxic stupidity to those words. After all, as Pelosi praised Assad, his government was simultaneously facilitating al-Qaeda's infiltration of Iraq. These terrorists were murdering hundreds of innocent Iraqis and American military personnel every month. As speaker of the House and a member of the "Gang of Eight," Pelosi was fully aware of that reality. She simply didn't care. Regardless, seven years later, her quote carries a different echo. Because today, the road to Damascus is a modern-day Appian way — except that, today, the littered dead are gassed children rather than gladiators. Some say that Pelosi couldn't have known Assad's evil back in 2007. That's a lie. The nature of the Assad regime has always been clear. Pelosi gave it legitimacy.
AND THEN, just a short time later, geo-politically speaking, 0bama decides al-Assad is the bad guy, and has to go.
This was right about the time he and Shrillary had just got done with insisting that the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak "had to go", had to step down immediately.
After some significant amounts of violence there in Egypt prior to elections, then more violence during the elections and afterwards also, the Muslim Brotherhood, although winning the first elections, once in office wasted no time in losing support of the common man in Egypt, and so were pushed aside by the Egyptian military...just about the time 0bama was telling us that the French were supporting 'rebels' in Libya who were attempting to oust the crazy/bizarre Libyan strongman (as the Western press used to label Muammar Gaddafi), and that American fighter jets and bombers must help them.
Now that we've heard more about the Hildabeast's best email buddy --- that isn't the daughter of staunch Muslim Brotherhood supporters--- it's enough to make one wonder if good 'ol Sydney Blumenthal isn't part French. Or something...
Returning now to the lead-up events headed towards the mess which is Syria today;
Along the way, more than once, when the natives first were becoming restless, Assad agreed to holding elections, entering into negotiations, whatever it would take to facilitate a brokered power-sharing sort of agreement between various Syrian factions.
A couple (or a few?) of those factions repeatedly said "no way", and that Assad must step down forthwith --- which equated to being demand for unconditional surrender on the part of al-Assad, which if he had agreed to would have put the Alawite minority, and what Christians there still were in Syria at the time (still alive) at immediate risk of pogrom = ethnic cleansing.
0bama's each and every action has made things worse, it appears. Red lines --- "better not cross 'em, or I'll..." do what? What was it that you was a-gonna' do there, Zippy? Refresh our memory, we so easily forget...
The Syrians as a nation & people, perhaps a majority, not merely and only al-Assad --- all those who lent support for infiltrating fighters through Syria to fight and murder American servicemen in Iraq--- by doing so brought death & destruction upon their nation. That nation is now a shambles, with no end to the continuation of further death & destruction in sight.
Pay-back, cosmic karma, can be a real Mother of Satan, can't it?
Now, Islamicists want to share this Mother with all the rest of the world, and have us all play unending rounds of Israelis vs. Palestinians.
Resentful muzzies, embarrassed and ashamed that the Western world is so much more advanced civilization than Islamo-lands get angry, bomb women and children of *the enemy* (Jews, Westerners, it matter only little which).
Israelis and Westerners retaliate in hope of striking the snake's heads enough to make them stop biting.
Muzzies get angry for being retaliated against, so retaliate, killing women & children and as many soldiers as they can before having themselves cut down.
Muzzies mourn those who are cut down, then seek revenge for the deaths of those who were cut down "retaliating", while meanwhile, back at the camel ranch, the Sunni-Shia split continues to widen;
Oh, Oh! I know. Pick me! Iraq? (In the voice of Arnold Horshack)
Your right, late night typo, that’s what I meant, and yeah that was very dumb.
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