This will be my third time asking a question you insist on not answering: Why do you believe these rebels are any better than Assad? Why do you think Syria will be better for the people?
How is it a win-win, when thousands of civilians have died in the civil war up to this point?
Given your questionable support for a bloody war, I'm sure this story of a teenage boy being tortured by Assad's henchmen for 24 days must warm your heart.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oody-genocide-slogans-sprayed-schoolyard.html
You realize it's usually expensive and politically complicated to kill people who hate America , right? These people are killing each other for free. Zero fucks given.
Do you understand what a stereotype is, or is that concept too large for your tiny brain to grasp? Not everyone who lives in the Middle East hates America. For you to generalize so much makes you clearly ignorant. :whiste:
Hey look, Racan can link to a URL. Good job Racan, don't try to analyze it at all. No, it will just be more red meat for the fact-twisting nuts.
What analysis is needed.
Read between the lines or the lines themselves.
IF Syria makes any gains; the rebels will retaliate by doing ethnic cleansing (if they are not already)
They are making threats in such that
Support us and do not support Assad
Apparently ethnic cleansing is OK from your POV as long as the government is removed
Since you demand that I answer what is already blatantly obvious to those in the highest seats of our government, I will. The rebel fighters include factions that want self determination and popular rule. Their ranks include younger, idealistic Syrians who want Assad's clearly brutal, corrupt government overthrown. These aren't the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, mind you. Does that make sense enough for you?
Such was proclaimed in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
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Nope. You've got your facts mixed up. A headline is meant to grab attention, it's purposefully sensational.
I did read between the lines, and I didn't see any quote from an FSA leader directly stating a plan to commit ethnic cleansing, do you?
Communities inhabited by Shiite Muslims and President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority will be “wiped off the map” if the strategic city of Al-Qusair in central Syria falls to government troops, rebel forces said.
“We don’t want this to happen, but it will be a reality imposed on everyone,” Colonel Abdel-Hamid Zakaria, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army in Turkey, told Al-Arabiya television yesterday. “It’s going to be an open, sectarian, bloody war to the end.”
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I didn't see any quote from an FSA leader directly stating a plan to commit ethnic cleansing, do you?
That's a different subject and not going to address it here, thanks anyway.
Appeasement? Who said anything about appeasement? This is about the ethics of ending a civil war and the slaughter of thousands of civilians. This has nothing to do with appeasement, there.is a crises going on, and Russia and China are morally and ethically in the absolute wrong.
WOW!Apparently Zakaria is not a FSA leader; just a spokesman who has no authority to say anything. /sarcasm
What do you call wiping specific communities off the map?
And only if those communities are Shites?
This was the first two paragraphs. How difficult is it to spot them?
quote == statement - check
FSA leader - spokesman - check
ethnic cleansing - wipe out based on religion - check
The infighting goes well beyond just three distinct factions, and the infighting is certainly not a recent development.
Even the multiple AQ-affiliated groups have fought with one another during the last two years.
That's entirely possible. To Obama's credit, he did try to stand with the Syria people; we wouldn't let him because (A) he didn't have a strategy that makes sense and (B) we're war-weary. But even if we had stood with the Syrian people, the only way we have to help is by dropping bombs and missiles, and even if we bomb the right people, the Syrian people's problem is not a lack of bombs and missiles falling on them.And that's another problem. Right now everyone there seems intent on hitting the other. Once we set foot in Syria they will stop and become allies and fight us, with the Syrian people still screwed. If I feel sympathy for any (and I do) it's them. There is no one with means who stands for them.
The infighting goes well beyond just three distinct factions, and the infighting is certainly not a recent development.
Even the multiple AQ-affiliated groups have fought with one another during the last two years.