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2012-03-13 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Jumblat Warns Syria's Druze of Getting Embroiled in Sectarian Strife

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Posted by Fred 2012-03-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 When Wally urges you not to take sides, you better listen. He knows what he's talking about.

Posted by SteveS 2012-03-13 00:33|| 2012-03-13 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually,I'm pretty damn sure that the nine million or so Syrians who aren't Sunni Muslims are D-E-A-D dead if the ruling regime falls. (Sad but true: Assad is probably the lesser of two evils in the long run.) That, and/or Israel gets to pickup a several hundred thousand non-Jewish but highly motivated and useful new citizens.

You know: however many make it out of what history will call the Syrian Genocide alive.

Posted by Secret Master 2012-03-13 02:57|| 2012-03-13 02:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting point: the Druze in their mountain villages would be a useful buffer, particularly the ones around the Golan. Offer parts of the Golan to the Syrian 'refugees' (Druze and Christian) provided they settle there, and you have a constituency that doesn't ever want to be Syrian again.

Wonder what the Alawites would want to do if they saw a true Sunni state coming together?

Posted by Steve White 2012-03-13 07:40|| 2012-03-13 07:40|| Front Page Top

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