Posted on 02/07/2012 4:10:15 PM PST by kronos77
DAMASCUS, Syria -- As the announcement was made Saturday evening that Russia and China had vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the actions of the Syrian regime, some Christians inside the country celebrated.
One man from the western Syrian town of Qatana called his relatives to say "mabrook," or congratulations, on the result of the vote. A lounge bar in Damascus offered two alcoholic drinks for one in a happy hour offer.
But in Christian homes around the country the prevailing sentiment is one of relief rather than delight -- they link the survival of the Assad regime to their own.
"Thank god for Russia. Without Russia we are doomed," said a Christian woman from Damascus recently.
As a fellow minority, Christians have long supported the Alawite regime in order to ensure protection and rights for themselves. The Alawite are a Shiite sect of Islam.
"Look what has happened in Iraq and now in Egypt," said the woman. "Assad in power means that won't happen here."
Thousands of Christians are tied up in the regime's security apparatus and are employed in high-ranking government and military positions. Aware that some day the masses might rise up against the regime, Syria's previous president, Hafez al-Assad, sought to consolidate power among the minorities, people he knew would unite when tested.
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Having read this I can once again see why Obama wants Assad out.
Obama th Muslim is against Christians and Jews all over the world.
Can’t blame them, they know whats coming if he falls.
Obama is trying to finish the Christians in the Middle East and Africa. He is acting as the pawn of the Muslim Brotherhood to war by proxy on those that allow Christians to live in their countries.
The only profit from this is to the World Caliphate.
I have to agree with the analogy though. For all the warts that the Shah and Mubarak had, they still were a lot better than the alternatives.
We can ignore the actions of Carter and Obama because, in my view, they intended harm. With Bush II, however, it was just a fundamental cultural misunderstanding.
While I don’t necessarily support US involvement in Syria, someone needs to stop Assad one way or another.
He is a brutal dictator with no regard for his citizens’ lives. This much is obvious.
“As bad as Assad is, it will be worse if the Arab Spring Muslim Brotherhood Islamists sweep another country. The Christians in Egypt are now far worse off than under Mubarak and the Christians in Syria will be slaughtered by the Muslims if Assad falls. Obama will chalk up another victory in the establishment of the Greater Caliphate.”
BUMP
“The greatest failure of Bush II’s neo-cons was the assumption that democracy could neuter militant Islam. The truth has always been the opposite. In a muslim-majority country, only the jackboot of a quasi-secular dictator could bring about a modicum of economic prosperity, modernity and the protection of minorities: i.e. Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and Syria. We can ignore the actions of Carter and Obama because, in my view, they intended harm. With Bush II, however, it was just a fundamental cultural misunderstanding.’
Great post.
All the minorities in Syria are finished. You will see the minority alawite muslims who the Assad family are a part of slaughtered first. Then will come the Christians.
It’s all tribal-religious over there.
>Obama is trying to finish the Christians in the Middle East and Africa.<
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And he will be successful because of our spineless Congress.
Thousands of American soldiers' lives (and the impact on their families) and 1.5 trillion American dollars later... "Oops, it was just a fundamental cultural misunderstanding??"
WTF?!
I disagree. Sad but true.
Assad and his father have dealt with the MB in the only way they understand. Loud, grotesque brutality.
When Hafez al-Assad undertook Hama, you didn’t hear from the MB for another 30 years.
A good friend of mine is a Syrian physician. Born in Tartous. His family is still there.
If Assad falls, Christians are going to die.
If the past ten years have proven anything, it is that YOU CANNOT EXPORT MORALS OR REPUBLICAN DEMOCRACY. You can only live by example.
WTF?!
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It was a noble humanitarian cause. If it turns out to be in vain, then it will also be a great tragedy.
[“The greatest failure of Bush II’s neo-cons was the assumption that democracy could neuter militant Islam.]
Democracy was, is now, and always is Mob Rule by mobsters..
Syria current has a Mob War goin on..
Assad may be replaced by another Mob.. as has happened in Egypt.. and Libya..
American democrats and republicans appear to just mobs..
I may seek a thrid party soon... Obama and Romney are mobsters..as are libertarians..
How's that road to hell paved again?
"Let me tell you what else I'm worried about: I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence." - George W. Bush, 2000
I miss that guy.
Is it possible that the kenyan envisions a promotion to Caliph some time after his second term? I expect him eventually, either in the second term or after he is out of office or has extended it to life tenure, to proclaim himself a Moslem.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The greatest failure of Bush II’s neo-cons was the assumption that democracy could neuter militant Islam. The truth has always been the opposite. In a muslim-majority country, only the jackboot of a quasi-secular dictator could bring about a modicum of economic prosperity, modernity and the protection of minorities: i.e. Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and Syria.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I was always telling it in every similar thread. Thank God, people are starting to think this way.
You can’t just bring democracy somewhere. People might have a certain set of values for generations to get it right.
Assad and Q-duffy are ideal ME leaders. Societies like that aren’t ruled by concensus via free-branch republic government. OBL types and Taliban style government are their alternative.
A problem is islam aren’t recognize free enterprise and friendly competition.
Hardworking is an attribute of a lower classes who aren’t noble enough to have decent wealth, investition considered a dirty Jewish thing.
Hahal economics is built on getting a rent by grabbing limited resource and restricting other’s access to it.
No matter is it water, food, oil or seats in parliament.
Add tribal issues and you’ll learn why every society there is a crap hole pot of snakes with the exception of few who has too much resources and too few people.
These societies have no chance to have any peace as different groups fighting for limited resources unless they have a brutal dictator to contain that crap via extreme violence as a single language these people understand.
He appears to have more regard for Christian lives than what he will be replaced with, or maybe you didn’t read the article.
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