Posted on 07/03/2013 8:40:53 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, fighting to crush a two-year-old uprising against four decades of rule by him and his late father, said on Wednesday the upheaval in Egypt was a defeat for political Islam.
"Whoever brings religion to use in politics or in favor of one group at the expense of another will fall anywhere in the world," Assad was quoted as telling the official Thawra newspaper, according to an official Facebook page.
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Yabut it doesn't fly in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, etc.
No wonder Mohammed el 0bama wants him taken down....
Good for Assad, if he makes Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, etc., uncomfortable.
All these Arab SOBs our our enemies and the more that are killed the better we are off.
Assad and Iran are best buds.
The Arab spring, and the overthrow of Saddam, may reopen the debate over whether the “dictator that we know” is better than unfettered Islam. I still think we might have continued to benefit from a stable Iraq under Saddam.
Cheers for Assad! Let him kill the jihadis fighting him. And let Obama gnash his teeth that his Sunni Moslem brotherhood friends are losing
Saddam was fighting Iran and he invaded Kuwait to get more money from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to fight Iran
if we hadn't gotten involved and let Saddam keep Kuwait then he would have
If I were Obama, I might want to take note of what happens to a liar once the people wise up and get tired of being constantly lied to.
Woulda,coulda ,shoulda
Post #9 is naive.
>>>Post #9 is naive.<<<
Why? To me it is a pretty realistic.
Then you missed the end of the Cold War. He was talking about 1991!
Saddam was deeply in debt after the Iran Iraq war. He was relying on rising fuel prices to be able to pay off the debts but Kuwait and Saudi Arabia began drilling more sending the price of oil down and hurting Saddam to the tune of billions of dollars per year. Kuwait was also slant drilling and stealing Iraqi oil. Then he invaded Kuwait which technically was part of Iraq anyway and the rest is history.
In any case, you will never see a bigger pile of scumbag trash than the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and U.A.E.
Of course, the best solution is to produce North American oil and gas, and then what the entire raghead world does is of no consequence to us. They can go back to living in the desert, in tents.
I see us going against Assad as being a mistake in the same vein
Fact: he was sponsored by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and the Gulf states
Fact: he had no real ambitions against the West prior to 1991
Fact: the Iranis bled a lot in the Iran-Iraq war, losing thousands of fanatics
Fact: the Saudis sponsor terrorism through their Wahabbi madrassas across the world
Fact: AlQaeda hated Saddam, Assad, Ghaddaffi, Mubarak as examples of secular dictators standing in the way of the Caliphate
What's your point? They aren't at war with the US. If this "Arab Spring" has shown anything, it's that the middle east is better off with somewhat benign dictators and a powerful military.
Globalism and the Empire are our real enemies.
Osama Dead Laden, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, and obongo are best buds. What's your point?
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