(Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)
(Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)
Moderate Barbarians?
Have these ‘moderates’ started sawing off the heads of local Christians yet? Or are they still too busy blowing up the local churches?
Assad is down to 40,000 government troops. A year from now, Assad will either have joined his family in Russia, or he’ll wind up a wind chime, like Mussolini. And I wouldn’t put much stock in Iranian forces if I were him. Judging from their abysmal past performance against Iraq (last major war Iran ever fought), they’re paper tigers. So it’s going to be a 3-way dance between moderates, al-Nusra, and IS.
Just to get a different perspective on the Syrian war. What if Iran was training terrorists in Mexico and sending them across the border to overthrow DC? And what if during that process, a similar ISIS group within the US gained power because the US was using all of it’s resources to fight the Iranian train terrorists groups? How would that differ from our involvement in Syria, which has killed 100k civilians, created 3 million refugees and enabled ISIS to emerge as a power army?
This is just a perspective. Something to think about how we are enforcing our policies world wide
Moderate rebels. Doesn’t that sound oxymoronish?
Moderate is a word. Religions actually are what their founders say they are; what their sages and high level priests find in the writtings of the founding fathers. People can claim to be a member of a religion, and ignore what the religion actually says. Most people claiming to be of a religion, just go thru the motions; the religion is not in their heart. Specifically, they will do what they chose to do, chosing how much of the religion they actually live out. Most do almost nothing, they attend the religion services and go back to their own world.
In actual religion, most members are members in their own mind:
“’When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master that’s all.’
— The Looking Glass
