MCalavera wrote:
Inventor wrote:
Assad is the lessor evil.
Anyone who's aware of the atrocities committed by Assad and believe Assad is the lesser evil compared to the rebels as a whole are morally confused in my opinion.
I can excuse those who are ignorant, though.
War is not a moral activity, Someone is not bad because he bombs you for snipeing his troops, he is applying force to end what someone else started.
Your views about the rights of majority non voters to take up arms is weak.
Start a war, then call for Europe to fight for you? Protective enclaves, a no fly zone, would not only have a huge cost, in men and weapons lost, it promotes a direct conflict with Russia.
Learn from history, when The Brotherhood tried the same thing, Assad's father killed at least 40,000 and barred them from Sryia.
Starting a shooting war was with full knowledge that many would die. As Politics, it was a play for outside support. Look at all the blood, give us money.
It was staged, by some bad actors, and was worse than Georgia's attack on Russia, calling for NATO support.
The first people who played it were the House of Saud, sending in guns, troops, to become your leaders. They do not want the government to fall, they want the Nation to fall, broken in a thousand warring pieces.
Saudi backed troops are not going to stand aside and see a Democratic State form, They are Kings, and hate that kind of state. They are spending money with the goal of appointing someone to rule it for them. Break it, impose a government.
They have not been sending in food, medical supplies, just guns, helping you to destroy your country for them. At the worst, at least destroy yourselves. The FSA is cannon fodder. As the only place they have to fight from is towns, they will bring down the wrath of the government.
Getting a lot of people killed is not showing your wisdom and love of the people. Getting people's homes destroyed is not making friends or supporters, as there was no need, other than to show thier bodies on video. There was no battle, nothing was captured or defended, just some people started shooting, and a lot of other people who lived there died.
This is shooting at government troops from the roof of the local school, knowing the government will bomb the place. Look at all the dead children! The Government are monsters!
War is politics, and the FSA failed to form a political party, they are loose factions fighting over the spoils, future government offices, while thousands are dying. They are not fit to be a party involved in a Civil War. If the Government would just explode or leave, they will become bands of looters. Then there are the Jihadis, who have their own plans.
Only one party has shown themselves fit to maintain a State, to preserve the country, maintain international relations, and none of the Rebels has any connection with Iran, Russia, Iraq, which are major players.
The Rebels one hope is if everyone will just leave they will take over, then they would be killed by the Jihadis, who will have all the weapons.
What the FSA Rebels want, A Democratic State, leads to what none of the other players want, a One Party Islamic State.
The Rebels want advanced arms, Anti Missile, anti aircraft, which are large expensive systems, that take years of training to run. The ones stationed in Turkey are run by American, German, and Norway special troops.
In a country of millions, the FSA claims just over 100,000 fighters, most of whom have never been trained to fight. The Government has a much larger army, plus advanced weapons.
By now everyone who was going to defect has, captured defectors get shot, and there is a steady decline of Rebel troops. Supply routes are being closed, the freedom of movement cut off.
It is not the role of government to supply food, medical care, water, power, to Rebel Towns that shoot at them.
In that town encircled near Lebanon, the government left a path for the old, women, children, to leave. They did not. I am sure they all want to die for the FSA, or they are being held as a human shield. The water was cut off, they have no food, hundreds in need of medical care, and no medics or supplies. They are chosing to die. or someone is chosing it for them.
This is your war, badly planned, supplied, with no fallback. The Government quits and leaves, or every one of us dies. If they do, we will go to the Russian base and tell them to leave, or we will behead our children.
What war is good for is getting rid of dumb people. It is going well, and until the government finishes off the Jihadis, we will watch on TV.
03 Jun 2013, 4:50 am
