SYRIA'S ASSAD SAYS THE U.S. IS WORKING WITH 'TERRORISTS' AND SELLING OIL STOLEN FROM THE COUNTRY

Newsweek ^ | December 16, 2019 | David Brennan

[Zhang Fei]

[Because Americans had no interest in killing Assad at all. Not one.]

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Some do and some don’t. Anti-semites love Assad*, because, as a Hamas and Hezbollah sponsor, he’s done yeoman’s work in the area of killing Jews. The Israelis are providing limited help to the jihadists for the same reason Assad sponsored terror groups against the US and Israel - it was a way of getting at the enemy without direct involvement.

* I sympathize with Assad’s plight as the leader of the Alawite minority, which will probably be exterminated if the Sunni Arabs win power. But his regime’s sponsorship of anti-American terror groups requires serious payback.

[The Toll]

* I sympathize with Assad’s plight as the leader of the Alawite minority, which will probably be exterminated if the Sunni Arabs win power. But his regime’s sponsorship of anti-American terror groups requires serious payback.

Maybe you should start by bombing Harvard yourself then.

[Romulus]

And, as usual, to hell with the indigenous Christians. If you give them a thought, you’re an anti-semite.

[MeganC]

Assad is right. Obama had no business going into Syria and Trump has no business staying there.

[NorseViking]

Some of the resident FR Saudi-lovers might appear right now to inform you that Middle Eastern Christians are a particularly nasty bunch. They’d tell these people are anti-Semitic still blaming the Jews for killing Jesus and they hate US as well identifying it with Roman Empire. They’d say the Christians were big time supporters of Saddam Hussain and Assad is no better and both are worse than Hitler.
Overall awful people comparing to our friends Saudis and as in comes to 9/11 it was a long time ago and not a big deal.

Where do they get these ideas?

[Zhang Fei]

[And, as usual, to hell with the indigenous Christians. If you give them a thought, you’re an anti-semite.]

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They’re a lost cause. They’ve been leaving for centuries. There is nothing left in the Middle East for them (or, indeed, for anyone of any religion, under the present regimes in the region outside of Israel). No point in leaving them there as hostages to fortune. If the current ructions don’t convince them to leave, they’ve not been paying attention. Even Steve Jobs’s biological dad left, and he is a Muslim whose dad was from an aristocratic Syrian family.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/who-is-steve-jobs-syrian-immigrant-father-abdul-fattah-jandali-3624958/

[Zhang Fei]

[Overall awful people comparing to our friends Saudis and as in comes to 9/11 it was a long time ago and not a big deal.]

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As opposed to our friends the Russians who helped the Germans kick off WWII, resulting in the death of 500,000 Americans? Who helped North Vietnam and North Korea, resulting in the deaths of another 100,000 Americans? The Saudi government did not plan 9/11. That dissident factions did, hoping to take power, after an expected US invasion of Saudi Arabia in response to 9/11, is not the Saudi government’s fault. Whereas the Russian government did help Hitler until he turned on them. And the Russian government did aid the North Koreans and the North Vietnamese.

Basically, bin Laden hoped to frame the Saudi government for 9/11, after which the US would topple that government. Upon which bin Laden would rally the world’s Muslims behind him in resistance to US occupation forces, evict American troops and set himself up as caliph, with his capital in Mecca. It’s not a particularly original ploy, except for its intercontinental setting.

[Zhang Fei]

[Maybe you should start by bombing Harvard yourself then.]

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If Harvard had been providing sanctuary, intel, arms and training to terrorists (like the Syrian government), the FBI would already have closed that institution under RICO laws. This isn’t some random make-it-up-as-you-go-along narrative. Syrian government involvement in sheltering, training, paying for and supplying terrorists is longstanding and well-established in multiple academic and media accounts, including books by British pro-Assad chronicler Patrick Seale.

[sockmonkey]

*** No one cares ***

Actually, I care. Campaign Trump betrayed my vote w/ Syria.
We are still there, and as far as I’m concerned on the wrong side of history.

[NorseViking]

“” “” As opposed to our friends the Russians who helped the Germans kick off WWII, resulting in the death of 500,000 Americans? Who helped North Vietnam and North Korea, resulting in the deaths of another 100,000 Americans? The Saudi government did not plan 9/11. That dissident factions did, hoping to take power, after an expected US invasion of Saudi Arabia in response to 9/11, is not the Saudi government’s fault. Whereas the Russian government did help Hitler until he turned on them. And the Russian government did aid the North Koreans and the North Vietnamese.”” “”

You need to update your knowledge on pre-WWII history.
The first countries to fight Hitler as early of 1936 were Russia and Mexico.
There was no Russian-German alliance. It was a non-aggression Pact meaning two sides obliged not to attack each other. That’s quite the opposite of the alliance. Russia only entered the Pact after it failed to assemble Western alliance to actually stop Hitler when he was still weak.

And bin Laden was much closer to the Saudi government than you might admit and so were Bushes.
I have no idea why do you think the idea was to provoke US invasion of Saudi especially in light of fact that bin Laden knew about the love affair between Bushes and Saudi royals.

Your theory sounds twice that stupid in light of fact that 9/11 was used as a pretext to actually invade Iraq - the enemy of Saudis.