[faithhopecharity]

Lebanon used to be the Christian refuge thereabouts (outside of Israel and Cypress and Greece, of course). But, President Reagan had the right idea... but .. alas, it only took one big Muslim terrorist bomb and even the good Gipper quit...
leaving Lebanon to be taken over by the IslamoNazi terrorist gangsters
Maybe its time to eliminate the Muslim terrorist gangs (like Hezballah, which for all intents and purposes has taken over the Lebanese “government”)....Hamas PLO PA and all the rest of Satan’s Muslim murder gangsters... once and for all?
Hezballah has so much of its weapons concentrated in such a small area, the advice I get is ... that the USAF could wipe them out in just about two days

[faithhopecharity]

and this will enable the restoration of Lebanon to being a Christian safe place...again

[BobL]

So I guess it’s better for Christians to live under ISIS?

Somehow I doubt that.

[marron]

Its no so much that Assad was protecting Christians as that he wasn’t targeting them.

Which meant, by comparison, for Christians he was their de facto protector.

The mercenaries recruited to fight against Assad, on the other hand, the Al Nusra, Al Qaeda, and ISIS jihadis, slaughtered Christians in their spare time.

It takes real incompetence to turn Assad into the good guy, but our Obama State Department, allied with the Turks, have done it.

[McGruff]

Would you prefer ISIS’s treatment of Christians?

[katana]

The Assad family and their Alawi sect/tribe have always done whatever was necessary to cling to power, knowing that the alternative would be massacre at the hands of a vengeful Sunni majority. Their tactics in reaction to this Obama inspired revolt and civil war have been no different.

Anyone who thinks their protection of Christians and other religious minorities, the longstanding status of Syria and the Assads as Russian/Soviet clients, or the brutal tactics used to keep themselves and those minorities from having their throats slit, are new understands nothing about the region, history, or the decades of politics preceding our time. The Assads are bastards. And they're not even "our" bastards. But they're better than the bastards Obama and McCain have tried to install in power.

[Sacajaweau]

IIRC, the Rebels took over the Christian Towns and used them for cover.

[jocon307]

ping for later - thanks for posting

[DesertRhino]

Bottom line. Under Assad, a Christian girl, could drive a car to Latakia beach with her friends. Splash in the water with a bikini on, have a glass of wine as she sat at a beachfront cafe, and enjoy life. She might meet a nice boy and decide to marry him someday.

None of this is possible under the jihadi groups we created and sponsor.