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Post by Maggie on Sept 9, 2013 19:23:32 GMT -6
Breitbart is reporting that Syrian rebels with ties to al Qaeda have been forcing Christians in the village of Maaloula to convert or die. The village is located just 25 miles from Damascus, and sites within the village are dedicated as United Nations world heritage sites. Residents still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus. The rebels who took over the city are associated with the al Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-associated Islamist group. Villagers reported foreign dialects ranging from Tunisian to Libyan, from Moroccan to Chechen. The news from Syria is grim on all fronts. I don't suppose it could ever have been a good thing to have a weak, incompetent government but the very thought that our current regime wants to go in militarily with no clear plan of attack and no clear plan for the aftermath should have us all scared to death.
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Post by Woodrow LI on Sept 9, 2013 22:47:07 GMT -6
As bad as the situation is Syria is, we will only make it worse if we try to intervene militarily.
There are three possibly even more groups each vying for control of Syria. Each is a bitter enemy of the others.
Eventually it is going to come down to being a proxy war between the US and Russia. Russia most likely will give military aid to Assad and his supporters. We will aide one of the rebel groups, most likely which ever one will be supportive of the US or who we think will be supportive of the US. So far we have a poor batting average when we look at who we have supported in the Past.
Ghadaffi
Saddam
Bin Laden
The Ayatollah Khomeini
Etc
Etc
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Post by Woodrow LI on Sept 11, 2013 9:16:05 GMT -6
A view from someone who has been there: SOURCE |
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Post by Woodrow LI on Sept 12, 2013 6:49:31 GMT -6
Turns out we had been involved in Syria for longer than we were told. SOURCEI have a strange feeling that instead of the legitimate Syrian rebels we have actually been helping the extermist bandits that seem to be rushing into Syria to grab what they can and put the blame on the actual rebels, |
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Post by Maggie on Sept 12, 2013 12:28:53 GMT -6
We can't believe a thing this current regime says. Not a word. They lie. Of course they have been involved in this mess.
Even so, you have a more optimistic view than I do. Who is the good guy? Who are the legitimate rebels? I don't think we can be certain that we know anything. We need to stay out and let those on the ground with a stake in the outcome settle it. I don't trust Washington to get anything right.
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Post by Woodrow LI on Sept 12, 2013 16:51:14 GMT -6
We can't believe a thing this current regime says. Not a word. They lie. Of course they have been involved in this mess.
Even so, you have a more optimistic view than I do. Who is the good guy? Who are the legitimate rebels? I don't think we can be certain that we know anything. We need to stay out and let those on the ground with a stake in the outcome settle it. I don't trust Washington to get anything right. Most of those claiming to be rebels are not even Syrian. Notice in the story about the Newsman that was a captive, they spoke with a variety of accents and none spoke in the Syrian dialect. There are at least 7 or 8 dialects currently in Use only 2 are widely understood by all Arab Speakers. the rest are local dialects understood just by small groups. Such as the Darija Dialect (the one I speak) is only understood in Morocco and parts of Algerian and Tunisia. Anyone in Syrian not speaking the Syrian dialect of Arabic would be easily identified. Apparently the people we are helping are not Syrians. But a group wanting to overthrow both Assad and the Syrian rebels. |
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Post by jstwebbrowsing on Sept 21, 2013 22:07:53 GMT -6
Eventually it is going to come down to being a proxy war between the US and Russia. This is what I think too. |
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