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| After five years of civil war, it’s time to bid farewell to Syria | |
| 2016-03-13 | |
Approximately five years have elapsed since the popular protest against Bashar Assad’s regime began in Syria — a protest that spiraled into a blood-drenched civil war that has claimed the lives of nearly half a million people. After years of battle, murder, massacre, and even attacks with chemical weapons, no end seems to be in sight. Five years in, the only thing that can be said with any certainty (this is the Middle East, after all) is that Syria in its former guise — a state with clearly defined borders and a single government based in Damascus — is no more. It has passed from the world, (evidently) never to return. What remains is an area of land that is split, torn, and divided among hundreds of groups of armed men fighting against one another and working hard to wipe out anything that might be left of it. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Who will the US back when it comes to that? To quote the punch line from the old college sports teams with same names joke: Go Tigers! I believe we will be backing whoever is behind at whatever given moment. We have no friends among the dar ul islam. We only have interests. Our long term interest is to see that no one group predominates. |
| Posted by: Nguard 2016-03-13 23:46 |
| #2 Kurds consolidate the south and west. they will need to move to the north. Eastern Turkey is in for a nasty civil war given the Kurds being a majority there. Perhaps NW part of Iran as well. Who will the US back when it comes to that? |
| Posted by: Snose Juling2943 2016-03-13 14:52 |
| #1 Hopefully, they'll be still killing each other a hundred years from now---with locally made swords and bows. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-03-13 04:00 |