There is a Kurdish video out there showing IsIS owned refineries still manned by Assad’s state technicians still on Assad pay.
Assad promoted Saddam Baathists as leadership of ISIs and then opened the islamic prisons to man ISIs when the Alawite wanted to oust him, tired of being Iranian cannon fodder for this puppet
“There is a Kurdish video out there showing IsIS owned refineries still manned by Assad’s state technicians still on Assad pay.
Assad promoted Saddam Baathists as leadership of ISIs and then opened the islamic prisons to man ISIs when the Alawite wanted to oust him, tired of being Iranian cannon fodder for this puppet”
I understand Assad standing up for his own interests. At the same time, I don’t think policymakers are prepared to forgive him for probably costing us thousands of dead in Iraq. And it was the casualty count that cost us our House and Senate majorities in 2006 and elected both Obama and filibuster proof House and Senate majorities in 2008. Bottom line is - much as I’m sympathetic towards the Alawites in Syria, as a community besieged by Sunni Arabs - their unrelenting hostility to America, as played out in their critical role in the killings of 200 Marine peacekeepers in Beirut as well as those of thousands of GI’s in Iraq, has earned them a really high position on Uncle Sam’s shit list.