Posted on 07/18/2016 12:44:21 AM PDT by Cronos
Just over a month into Syria’s uprising in 2011, the leader of Lebanon’s Druze sect, Walid Jumblatt, travelled to Damascus to visit Syria’s then security tsar, Mohammed Nasif.
“He said to me at the time, it’s either us, meaning the Alawites, or them, meaning the Sunnis,” Jumblatt recalled. “I knew which way this was going then. He added, ‘even if it cost us a million dead’.”
.. the ancient city of Aleppo, which after years of being viewed as the key to Syria’s fate last week slipped from the grasp of the opposition and into the hands of the Syrian regime’s allies, led by Hezbollah.
The encirclement of Aleppo is a significant moment in a war that has led to more unrestrained savagery, international repercussions and unlikely alliances than most others in modern times. Another emerged last week, as Hezbollah and Syrian troops were beating back the al-Qaida-aligned Jabhat al-Nusra from farmlands to the north of the city. As that battle raged, the US was drafting a deal with Russia that would create a joint operations centre to coordinate attacks on al-Nusra and Islamic State.
..“I’m sitting here in a ruined house in eastern Aleppo,” said Abu Sobhi Jumail, a Syrian opposition fighter who has fought across northern Syria for the past five years. “I have the Russians in the skies, the Syrian air force too, when its planes can fly. I have Isis to my east, Hezbollah to my north and al-Qaida in between. They abandon us, and tell us to rely on God, and then condemn us when we are forced to seek help [from al-Nusra]. Without them we would all have been killed a year ago. That is not politics. That is life and death.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Go Assad and get rid of those jihadis that have slaughtered Christians.
Too bad islamists don’t ever embrace diversity....
Is Obama happy about this news?
Remember when Nancy Pelosi decided she was going to ignore the American Government’s position and conduct her own foreign policy, and she came back from Syria announcing that she’d met with Assad and concluded that the path to peace ran through Syria?
Pretty crooked path.
In 2009 my son attended an Arabic language school in Damascus and I spent two weeks visiting him. An incredible experience. We traveled by ourselves throughout the country with no trouble. All trains, buses, and commuter vans ran on schedule. The markets were full of food. We visited many Christian sites. They were all well cared for.
Incredible. If you haven’t seen this yet - you’ll be amazed by it.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/inside-assads-syria/
Every Syrian I have ever talked to hates these foreign fighters - so-called Syrian rebels - who have invaded their country.
If one is not already knowledgeable about the various Muslim and Christian sects, this article is useless. Damn a bunch of so-called journalists any way.
If the coup in Turkey was actually staged by Erdogan then perhaps this is why. If Turkey intervenes directly to support the rebels then the coup was fake and an excuse to purge the military to give Erdogan a free hand.
There is no way out of eastern Aleppo and north to the Turkish border, with the last remaining supply line severed. A blockade that has all but taken hold over the past year is now likely to be enforced
Assad is a corrupt, lying, murdering despot. He has murdered hundreds of thousands of his own citizens. He even murdered the father of one of my co-workers. That said, he’s killing enemies who have also declared war on the US. Let Allah sort them all out. In the mean time, it is not in the best interest of the US to fight Assad.
Amen.... not really good news
Obama is a Shiite. He does not sympathize with Sunnis.
Shaykh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah be merciful to him) said to refute the suspicion of Druze: All Muslims are in agreement that those people are Kafirs and whoever has doubt concerning this fact is also a Kafir like them. They are not like the people of the Book nor polytheists, but they are straying Kafirs whose food is not allowed to be eaten and their women may be taken in captivity. Their money should be taken because they are apostates and their repentance may not be accepted but they should be killed wherever they are and be cursed as they were described. It is not permissible to appoint them as guards on the gates. Moreover, their scholars or so called reformers should be killed so as not to mislead others. It is prohibited to sleep with them in their houses, accompany them, walk with them or escort their dead people. It is prohibited for the Muslim ruler to ignore establishing the penalty prescribed by Allah to these people. All help is from Allah and on Him we shall rely!Saudi page on Druze
Obama’s Luo tribe is Sunni, not Shia
Actually the opposite. And the Muzzy terrorist groups being used as proxies against Assad by Obama are Sunni.
This is just my opinion, based on having a degree in the history of the region, a little residual Arabic (one of the main things gained in study of somebody else’s language is an inkling into how they think), and having actually been to Syria and seen the Assad regime in action. Yes, it’s an ethnic minority Alawite regime, brutal to its enemies the Sunni (majority), but very protective of the other major ethnic and religious minorities including the several Christian sects, Druze, and Kurds. But the forces fighting them are several combinations of radical Sunni Islamists and foreign Jihadis who would turn what was once a relatively modern country into Afghanistan on the Med. It’s an unpleasant choice but in my opinion a clear one.
Go Assad!
But remember, killing ‘em all is expensive. Gotta leave ‘em a way out... Send ‘em to Germany!
(Germany and the EU, on the other hand, needs to think seriously about sinking any boats or ships bringing ‘refugees’ to Europe...)
Take no prisoners.
Cronos, You might expect that but I could not possibly give a damn. One Muzzie tribe or 101, they are all unrepentant scum which the world would be made better by their absence. Make America Great again, get Muslim free.
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