Posted on 09/15/2017 12:04:27 PM PDT by BeadCounter
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has expressed his gratitude to the supreme leaders of Iran and North Korea in two recent letters thanking them for standing behind his government, which has been accused by the West of perpetrating human rights abuses throughout a six-year war against jihadists and other insurgent groups.
In a letter sent Thursday to Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Assad thanked the leading Shiite Muslim cleric for providing crucial support to the Syrian military as it advanced against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) toward the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, where a three-year siege by the militants was broken earlier this month. Since a 2011 uprising threatened Assad's control over the country, Iran has been a leading sponsor of the Syrian leader's efforts to combat various forces opposed to his government.
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I wonder if the Saudi lackeys will step up and promote more Wahabbist - sunni sponsored chaos and destruction in the Mideast?
Yeah... Assad’s bad, but is he worth killing 600,000 people and sending 11 million refugees across the world... when Saudi Arabia is objectively worse?
He may thank them but he still hates them and will never trust them. That’s how they work in the ME. There are no alliances. Just convenience. They hate each other more than the USA or even Israel. They hate their neighbors. They hate their own daughters fer crissakes.
I’m still waiting for someone to explain why it was in the best interests of the USA to encourage, and sometimes actively assist, revolutions in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, and Yemen, when we had NO IDEA what kind of government would replace the government that was originally in power.
I would agree with your point, but in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt, they knew exactly who would wind up in power.
They were sure it would be Obama’s terrorist pals, the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist group.
In Tunisia and Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood did gain power. In Libya, they still vie for it today.
Along the way, the master plan fell apart. In Egypt, the MB was tossed out on it’s ear. In Tunisia the MB actually decided to support a secular authority government over their own authority. The last word on that, that I’ve found, is headlined this way. “Tunisia’s ‘Moderate Muslim Brotherhood’ Leader Implicated in Assassination of Political Rival.” (This was the handpicked Obama/Leftist go to guy) LOL As for Libya, there’s still door to door fighting in neighborhoods of the capital, and (the last I heard) there are two or three different factions declaring themselves to be the official government of the nation. My that worked out well.
Leftists are so good at micromanaging global dynamics. Iran, North Korea, the Middle-East, the Mediterranean Rim,... place after place, their plans blow up in their faces. Yasser Arafat was their darling!
Luckily their main objective hasn’t been overturned yet.
The United States is still a rather shaky Constitutional Republic. To what extent, we’re finding out right now.
Saudis are nothing but a bunch of cowards.
Baloney, B. Hussein knew his radical pals would take over-he had em as White Hut guests
I wonder if elderly neocons will ever stop sympathizing with al-Qaeda and ISIS.
Start? :^)
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