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To: Texas Fossil

Hopefully there is an “after ISIS.”

Any way we wiggle this around to try to make it fit, Westerners inevitably get stuck straddling the Sunni v. Shiite mess...


8 posted on 06/23/2017 1:36:49 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Veto!

Far more than Sunni/Shia.

Kurds are secular in Syria.

Assad = Alawites (Shia, way light)

Turks are Islamist. Like MB and ISIS.

Arabs in N. Syria have seen ISIS, never want to go there again.

As a consequence of ISIS brutality, the communities liberated by the Kurds & later the SDF have formed their own local assemblies by election. Largely representing in proportion to ethnic makeup.

There is far more support for secular government after ISIS.

I don’t know about Syria farther to the South.


15 posted on 06/23/2017 3:35:40 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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