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2018-07-26 Britain

The Great British Foreign Office Fantasy

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-26 05:20|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 With Syrian government forces moving in, a massacre may well have been about to occur.
Almost the entire Near East is one big massacre, in progress for decades if not centuries. Only the cast of characters, both victims and perpetrators, seems to change from one day to the next. That impression gets reinforced every day I read the first bloc of times on the 'Burg.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-26 11:59|| 2018-07-26 11:59|| Front Page Top

#2 So the Brits arbitrarily draw a border line and then get their knickers in a bunch when reality contradicts their fantasy. What do they think Assad and his Iranian friends would do with this strategic position if they had access to it?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-07-26 12:00|| 2018-07-26 12:00|| Front Page Top

#3 The Syrians were bad neighbors, allowing people to snipe at Israelis in the low grounds below and did nothing to stop it. Think of it as a penalty for attacking Israel in 1973 and losing. Actions meet Consequences.

Posted by magpie 2018-07-26 12:23|| 2018-07-26 12:23|| Front Page Top

#4 So the Brits arbitrarily draw a border line

All borders are arbitrarily drawn, typically at a point that a given side's armies can advance no further. In the case of post-colonial borders, the question wasn't just the composition of the people living in a given area, mixed as they tended to be since all ethnicities and sects were allowed to intermingle within the empire, but whether the borders drawn would immediately lead to war. Arab borders have remained more or less stable since Europe's withdrawal, demonstrating that the borders drawn weren't particularly haphazard. Israel's problems with Muslims have to do with the fact that it exists on what Muslims consider both holy and Arab land, thanks to Muhammad's hallucinations re Jerusalem, not the decisions of British colonial officials from a while back.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2018-07-26 13:11|| 2018-07-26 13:11|| Front Page Top

#5 France helped draw that border. Syria and Lebanon were French.

Posted by ruprecht 2018-07-26 21:25|| 2018-07-26 21:25|| Front Page Top

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