Bird's of a feather...
Posted on 09/21/2011 3:21:46 PM PDT by nuconvert
The American Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford called Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad evil in an extensive interview with The Daily Caller Wednesday from his mission in the Middle Eastern country.
“Yes, actually I do because what’s happening under his authority in terms of people being tortured to death, people being shot who are unarmed and no one being held accountable for it,” Ford responded following a pause after being asked by TheDC if he thought Assad was “evil.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Gee, what tipped you off?
Bird's of a feather...
Go easy on Ford - he stayed in Syria when he could have left, and he’s publicly been supporting the opposition on the ground there.
* crickets *
No doubt the man they have lined up to replace Assad is a sterling humanitarian, just like in Libya.
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Hassan Nemazee was over there in 2008...
bashar assad is a whole cloth creation of ours and Britain’s MI5 all the way down to the heavy coke bottle glasses he used to wesr to make him look “intellgent” and nerdy because we thought he would be better than his brother who “died” in a car crash after daddy named him heir. Once he came into power, he was coopted by the Iraqi intel chief who became his chief advisor and that was that.
Assad is evil because he keeps the Moslem fundamentalists at bay and protects the Christians in Syria???
She should be ashamed of herself staying married to him
” Moslem fundamentalists at bay “
lol. riiightt... his main benefactor & best buddy is the IRI
Syria has 10% (officially -- unofficially due to refugees from IRaq, 20%) Christians -- these are pretty much protected by the Assad regime
If Assad's regime fell, the Sunni Moslem brotherhood would kill Christians and Alawis before hitting Shias.
” Alawites have had a mixed view of themselves propagated. Ali Sulayman al-Ahmad, chief judge of the Alawite state, replied “We are Alawi Muslims. Our book is the Quran. Our prophet is Muhammad. The Ka`ba is our qibla, and our religion is Islam.”
Believe what you want about Assad - I don’t care if he’s a witchdoctor. Tolerating Christians in his country means nothing...so does the IRI.
His main benefactor is the Iranian regime, he supports terrorism and he kills and tortures unarmed civilians. That’s all I need to know.
Alawites are Moslems. They are an offshoot of Shia Islam. The name “Alawi” actually is derived from the 4th Caliph (considered by sunnis, and the 1st Shia Imam) being “Ali ibn Abi Talib”.
A plus w/ Assad compared to “Islamics” is that Bashar al-Assad like his father Hafez al-Assad, is a *secularist*.
Another point: During Iran-Iraq war, Syria was the only Arab state which supported the mullahs’ regime & Iran against Iraq. Hafez al-Assad sided w/ the mullahs’ regime not because they approve of the mullahs’ regime, but because they (Syrian gov’t) was against Saddam’s version of the Ba’athists (Ba’ath party in Iraq).
This isn’t about religion per se. It is about siding w/ whoever when/if expedient and in order to protect one’s own interests (same goes for any country incl. the US & the UK). It is mostly a political move & is about geopolitics. Not religion.
If there are issues with Iran (as there have been for over 3 decades now), then the West should be addressing Iran in the first place. Not working to facilitate the installation of other shades of Islamic gov’ts in the ME & N. Africa, in the name of democracy, human rights & freedom.
If Assad goes, imo, we’ll see a more Islamic state in Syria too; right now Syria is a secular state (but an Islamic nation). The likelihood of Syria becoming a beacon of democracy & freedoms, post Bashar al-Assad, is remote. That’s the nature of the ME, N. Africa and generally the moslem world. See the direction Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, even Turkey & Iraq are taking. They’re all at least a couple of centuries away from what we think of as human rights, democracy & freedoms - their culture vis a vis ours as well as Islamic stranglehold will act as negatives.
Also, “elections” are not indicative of democracy & freedoms.
I agree with you on If Assad goes, imo, we’ll see a more Islamic state in Syria too; right now Syria is a secular state (but an Islamic nation). The likelihood of Syria becoming a beacon of democracy & freedoms, post Bashar al-Assad, is remote
"means nothing"? Allowing Christians to live in an Arab land as compared to Saudi's executions or the persecutions happening to Christians in Egypt and IRaq is NOTHING?
The IRI does not "tolerate" Christians -- Christians in Iran are persecuted. In Syria, they aren't.
If he kills and tortures Moslem slime, big deal -- those are not "unarmed civilians" but Moslem Brotherhood goons or fronts.
If they overthrow the Assad regime, they will kill all the Christians in Syria -- look at what's happening in Iraq and Egypt.
You think the terrorism from Syria is bad now? Wait until the jihadi opposition get control.
I stand by everything I said in post #15.
If you want to support Assad, that’s your business.
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