Posted on 10/22/2014 12:46:16 AM PDT by wetphoenix
I couldn’t agree more with you. However, it’s easy for Assad to hit targets and pick them. He’s at war with the majority of his nation. We’re at war with one terrorist group. We should be hitting them in more places and more often. That is a different subject.
I wonder if they are coordinating with coalition aircraft.
Back under Bush a military guy would have a daily news conference and state the number of missions flown, what the targets were and even have visual aids. The transparent administration has erected a wall.
Actually it's all BS.
Ordinary People, what a joke. They're as ordinary as all the other head chopping Islamist factions on a rampage against a duly elected secular governing president.
So all of the peaceful people protesting against Assad were secretly jihadis? Do you remember their protests for months before the civil war and rebellion started? You think like Assad if you think no one there could want to be free of his family and their cruel monarchy.
Have you been to Middle East ever? I think even if you have been there, your only interaction with environment was observation through an MG sights on top of armored vehicle which is not offering any good view from other stations and you was starring at the wall separating your base and actual Middle East for the rest of your time.
That actually shapes your opinion.
Assad’s “enemies” include residential areas of towns and cities. A good portion of those 200 strikes were likely barrel bombs dropped from helicopters over residential buildings in cities he does not control.
Whereas the coalition’s 36 strikes were directly on ISIS.
Assad is not our friend and we certainly don’t need our enemies’ help to destroy ISIS. He’s a thug and a scrub. No one else in the world can put a Hellfire missile or laser guided bomb into ISIS’s Tactical Operations Center, as we did at Kobane, killing dozens of ISIS’s leadership. We’ve done that several times now. Their tactical leadership in many areas is a funeral procession.
Of course the Shah chose to leave Iran months after the riots, instead of unleashing the army on Islamists and Communist culprits who were hiding behind 'ordinary people'. But the propaganda and disinformation are still the same regarding any regime we want to dispose of in the M.E. just to stir up the uninformed, who get their news second and third hand. To date we are still fed same garbage propaganda how the Shah killed so many people!
35 years later, after the Islamists in Iran have killed tens of thousands of Iranians, the same media, intellectuals, western know-it-alls, continue to be silent and at best post a few threads, posts, articles damning the mullahs in Iran. Their duplicity, and idiocy is stunning to say the least.
One must think very carefully about the alternative to Assad in Syria, their ideology, and more. But, this isn't about reality, it is about having insidious agendas that Obama and his supporters want to push through the M.E.
An accurate comment from a person who certainly did a math on a subject.
Most of the rest are indoctrinated by MSM, have zero clue, but still pompously bring the narrative as it is their own opinion.
Let me just add that in the Shah’s case, my family lived through it and was actually there, witnessed it all, before and after the Shah left.
Yes, I’ve been to four countries, and your speculations are wrong. Your knee jerk pro-Putin, pro-dictator views shape your opinions.
OK, name and describe me a person you would like that see a leader of Syria. It is not the first day I am asking your this question and no answer so far. It really spoils your claim to be an expert and overall discredits your position on Syria.
And BTW, your using of name ‘Putin’ is way ahead of mine. Who are an apologist after all?
Its an Islamic country and in a free election the people will vote for an Islamic government. If you want a non-islamic government to run things, then you're talking about people who will have to turn guns on their own citizens to stay in power. That's the fundamental problem.
Am going to reply to this too. Because I think it is the key for Syria. Furthermore, so long as that non-Islamist government or candidate(s) is/are not apparent, viable or even in the pipeline, Assad needs to stay.
And, we need to destroy ISIS in the process. Not feed both ISIS, their supporters & affiliate groups, same time as their opposition.
As it currently stands, ISIS and all Islamists, in Syria especially, are the most potent enemy, not Assad. Assad, actually, is willing to negotiate & is malleable. He does not want to impose an Islamic State (Caliphate) across the region. ISIS & its supporters, however, want to impose precisely that.
I believe that Assad radicalized the opposition when he was unwilling to accept any alternative to Assad Inc., a family-owned business. If the Syrian military took over Syria in a coup, deposed Assad, and put out feelers to non-Islamic elements to form a government, we’d have the best outcome, it seems, that we can hope for now. I cannot believe that that the only alternative to Assad is an Islamist government.
I’m not sure comparing Indonesia with Syria is much of a comparison. I have a preconceived opinion that the only solution to the middle east “issues” is a military solution that kills a bunch of people. Certainly nobody is going to do that option. Even prophecy tells us that much.
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