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2011-11-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2011-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Daffy had the option of take the money and run. I don't think Assad has that option. The fate of the Alawites is too closely tied to his. Any attempt to run and he'd be dead before he made it to the airport.

I'm rather baffled by the AL position. Assad's only option is to keep killing protestors. The UNSC isn't going to do anything, nor is NATO.

The AL proposal to send in 500 observers is frankly bizzare, unless they are accompanied by a couple of armoured brigades. And where would they come from? Saudi?

Posted by phil_b 2011-11-17 02:52|| 2011-11-17 02:52|| Front Page Top

#2 House of Saud

If Baby Assad goes down, it will be Alawite extermination season. Sunnis could pick up or the Kurds really take it for real.

What a strange time

Posted by newc 2011-11-17 04:37|| 2011-11-17 04:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I ha&ve mixed feelings about El Assad: He is a pan-Arab nationalist but he is also an Alawite (a branch of chiism that and enmity with Sadam made for ties with Iran) ie people whose "Musliminess" is very thin: they drink alcohol, their women don't wear hijabs ans have a degree of freedom unknown in the Arab world and finally, but perhaps I confound them with the Ahmedists they don't face towards Mecch for praying.

In other words for orthodox Muslims they are marginally better than Kaffirs, perhaps even Kaffirs who "disguised" as Muslims to avoid discriminations and pogroms. I am wary of rebels who are being sponsored by Saudi Arabia and Quatar: anyone sponsored by them can't be good.

Posted by JFM 2011-11-17 09:01|| 2011-11-17 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Saudi Arabia must be the oddest relationship we have in this world. The bred our radical enemy, but tampered back on it and actually became allies by default due to Iran. Iran's sponsoring of Hezbollah through baby Assad is in close proximity in Saudi Arabia's eye.

Do not forget also, their meddling in Lebanon. Such a tragic thing.

Posted by newc 2011-11-17 15:09|| 2011-11-17 15:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Saudi Arabia must be the oddest relationship we have in this world

Look up "deceptive pollination"

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-17 17:38|| 2011-11-17 17:38|| Front Page Top

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