Iran says ISIS just killed its top general in Syria

AP via Business Insider ^ | 10/09/2015 | Zeina Karam

[Trumpinator]

That's bull. I am not Catholic or eastern Christian but a lot of Catholics I know are freaking out that the USA is on the side of the Sunni rebels in Syria who are butchering Christians there and in Iraq. I bet many of the people cheering Putin in Syria are themselves Catholic. I read lots of online newspapers as part of my daily routine and Catholic news online is like that.

It seems to me many Americans on the Protestant side are ignorant or ignoring this reality. Many rather have Syria's Assad fall because he is a threat to Israel and if that means native Syrian Christians get wiped out - so be it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

His head will be arriving in Teheran via parcel post in 5 to 7 days.

[Genoa]

A lot of us want to see Israel and the region’s Christians defended, not one at the other’s expense.

[The Toll]

“A lot of us want to see Israel and the region’s Christians defended, not one at the other’s expense.”

That would be so much easier to do if they were safely behind the same walls.

[11th Commandment]

This is interesting because Aleppo, Syria was "in theory" control by non-ISIL rebels and at best the FSA. So this means our intel was bad (or fudged) and ISIL is controlling more of Syria than suspected or that all Sunni rebellion has joined forces. I suspect a little of both.

Second point, Russia has flexed its muscles, but now it needs to perform.

[Trumpinator]

Of course - I was not talking about you - just in general.

Israel is out for her own, I think and as it should be. Israel would love to see Assad fall even if ISIS took over - because it would be easier to defeat ISIS held Syria than Assad's Iranian held Syria. It would also weaken hezbollah - no small consideration. In all that I don't think Israel considers the fate of any of Syria's secularists or Christians or Muslim non Sunni minorities.

I am OK with that because that is not Israel's job to take care of Christians.

Sadly, in Syria, to defend Christian life there I feel and I think many feel on here and beyond that the best way to do that is to prop up Assad and that involves Putin's stance also on Syria and ironically, Iran's as well.

The Syrian sunni rebels have proved to not be moderates. In fact the rebellion was probably always about the Sunni majority hating living under the ruling of hated Shiites. They may have been a few genuine democratic rebels at first but they were few and far between.

What I do notice by cruising the forum is that those that support the ouster of Assad never mention the plight of Syria's Christians and that makes me wonder why. I think in their minds they have wrote those Christians off to the grave.