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| The deadly consequences of mislabeling Syria's revolutionaries |
| 2015-07-13 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] As has become obvious, the B.O. regime's response to the Syrian conflict is an abject failure. No clear strategy has been determined; the administration's "red lines" have not been honored. Short-term, stopgap measures informed by the Iraq and Afghanistan experiences, along with the noise generated by a media fixated on the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , have taken priority over achievable, long-term goals. The result: a corpse count commonly estimated at between 200,000 and 300,000 people (though it's certainly higher), more than 11 million displaced and numerous cities in ruins. Nowhere is this failure clearer than in the consequence of the misguided way that Syrian revolutionaries are labeled as either "moderate" or "extremist." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 So how does this story end? |
| Posted by: Crusader 2015-07-13 23:24 |
| #5 How about George Clooney. He has been in movies which have desert sequences, should be a great fit. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-07-13 18:07 |
| #4 Let's have a alawite-land and a south region. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-07-13 17:52 |
| #3 who or what will replace Assad Nobody because the country of Syria is no more. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-07-13 16:10 |
| #2 I'm not one to flip ahead to the ending, but has anyone suggested a plan for who or what will replace Assad? Yeah, he's a rat bastige and nobody likes him, but but are there any better alternatives? Sure, Vermin #1-N would like the job, but I wouldn't let any of those guys watch my car. Are we doomed to sit thru another showing of The Kadaffy Syndrome? One hopes not, because that movie is stupid. Hey, let's give Syria to the Kurds! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-07-13 15:36 |
| #1 Okay, let me relabel them for you: vermin#1,...,vermin#n (Assad & co are vermin#0) |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-07-13 03:14 |