Posted on 04/24/2011 5:22:31 PM PDT by nuconvert
FOR THE PAST five weeks, growing numbers of Syrians have been gathering in cities and towns across the country to demand political freedom — and the security forces of dictator Bashar al-Assad have been responding by opening fire on them. According to Syrian human rights groups, more than 220 people had been killed by Friday. And Friday may have been the worst day yet: According to Western news organizations, which mostly have had to gather information from outside the country, at least 75 people were gunned down in places that included the suburbs of Damascus, the city of Homs and a village near the southern town of Daraa, where the protests began.
Massacres on this scale usually prompt a strong response from Western democracies, as they should. Ambassadors are withdrawn; resolutions are introduced at the U.N. Security Council; international investigations are mounted and sanctions applied. In Syria’s case, none of this has happened. The Obama administration has denounced the violence — a presidential statement called Friday’s acts of repression “outrageous” — but otherwise remained passive. Even the ambassador it dispatched to Damascus during a congressional recess last year remains on post.
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nobama just can’t wait to kill more people with predators or cruise missles. Is nobama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, a disturbed war criminal? Enquiring minds want to know.
The Compost proving once again that no matter how stupid a leftist shill is, the Board can out stupid ‘em with nary the slightest effort.
Does anyone really want Obama in charge of an action like that?”
Not especially. I wish Pres. Bush had done it.
Placating the Christians on Easter Sunday. How about reporting these truths up until November 2012?
“Naw Obama will go help Ralia Odinga in Nigeria slaughter the Christians who won the elections.”
He hasn’t said much about the slaughter going on there, has he?
It was written Fri. I was surprised no one had posted it...so I did.
Got it, on Good Friday.
No i think they are telling him his fake war is the wrong one and he has let his mouth over load his ass.
Like Libya, this is not our war. Bring the troops home and use them to seal the border.
Syria would be even more anti-Israeli under its Sunni majority than under the Alawite Assad family. (The Alawites are a Shi’ite sect that has a few Christian customs and often give their children Christian-sounding names: “Bashir” is the Arabic equivalent of Basil or Vassily. My guess is in the dim reaches of the past Alawites were crypt-Christians, but now they are just on odd sort of Shi’ite.)
I’m not sure why the folks at Foggy Bottom seem to have decided that Muslim Brotherhood governments would be a good thing for Egypt and Libya, but not for Syria, but on behalf of my fellow Orthodox Christians in Syria, I suppose I’m happy.
The Assads stay in power by treating all the religious minorities — their fellow Alawites, “orthodox” Sh’ites, Druze, and Christians (mostly Orthodox and Jacobite) — well, and ruthlessly suppressing majority the Sunnis. It’s partly for that reason that even while being hostile to U.S. interests in the area, they have been very cooperative with U.S. efforts against Al Qaeda (a Sunni movement, which would as soon kill Alawites as Christians or Jews).
No leadership. Obama does not have a friggin’ clue. Syria is where we need to be helping the insurgency. It’s been a hot bed of terrorist activity and support for a long time. Yet, he’d rather take down Khadaffi because he thought it would be easy to get on the bandwagon. Well, Khadaffi is not going quietly and I hope he outlasts the rebels. THAT WOULD BE A HUGE DEFEAT FOR ZERO.
There is no “right” side in these conflicts. We need to stay out of these Muslim civil wars, and deal with the fact that it’s Islam that’s the enemy.
-Did we learn nothing from helping the Afghan “freedom fighters” in the Soviet invasion??? That worked out well for us, didn’t it? We should have been helping Russia! NOW, we have a bunch of a-holes in Libya who were fighting against our troops as Iraqi insurgents. Most of these protestors are radical Muslims.
Just this last week, Libyan rebels BEHEADED a libyan soldier, in front of THOUSANDS cheering onlookers, all of them screaming “Alluah Akbar” in typical crazy Muslim behaviour... and many of them filming the beheading on their cell phones! WATCH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkcMgPsB3Gs&skipcontrinter=1
these are McCains “HEROS”???
Expect serial revolutions in the Middle East. These people are protesting not so much for democracy as they are against the high price of food staples and the lack of jobs.Tunisian protesters, who just threw out their dictator a few months ago,are starting up their protests again. Egyptians, who rid themselves of Mubarek, are now protesting the military. After all is said and done, this region of losers will still be a region of loserregardless of their political system, broke and jobless. The fault lie in the culture not the political system. They should be protesting against themselves.
Thank you for your post.
I raise a kid to 18. Explain to me what in Syria means my kid needs to be risked. Is the USA literally expected to be the universal police force of planet earth?
Whats in it for us?
Amen.
We need to stay out of Islamic civil wars.
Leave the Middle east to itself.
Bring our young men and women home. They don’t need to be targets for the left to kill because they aren’t allowed to defend themselves anyway.
Besides, the left can shove it. They don’t care about the slavery of the jihadists, but we are supposed to save them?
NO WAY! Drill here and Drill NOW!!!
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