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2016-09-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The Decay of the Syrian Regime is Much Worse Than You Think
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Posted by Bernardz 2016-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
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#1 News flash: there is no longer a country called Syria (if there ever was one).
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-02 05:09||   2016-09-02 05:09|| Front Page Top

#2 like Mos Eisley (from Star Wars 'A New Hope') except bigger and without that ragtime alien band in the cantina
Posted by lord garth 2016-09-02 07:41||   2016-09-02 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 And all of the effects me and my daily quest for survival how ?

Stay out of it and leave them to their misery.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-02 07:43||   2016-09-02 07:43|| Front Page Top

#4 A superior evaluation!
Posted by Glanter Trotsky5797 2016-09-02 07:43||   2016-09-02 07:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Next, you will be telling me the current American regime is much worse than we thought.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-02 09:47||   2016-09-02 09:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Is there is a "Syria" other than a Caliphate of Damascus and its tributary possessions surrounded by the vicious Turkish scum to the North, the Bedouin rabble to the South, and the abominable Persians to the East?
Posted by magpie 2016-09-02 10:01||   2016-09-02 10:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Reading the author's snarky comments about animal-themed mercenaries is priceless if you have any knowledge of the history of warfare in the region -- particularly how the Byzantines built their army. Local militia, of doubtful loyalty, to hold ground and mobile field armies to do the real fighting...
Posted by magpie 2016-09-02 10:09||   2016-09-02 10:09|| Front Page Top

#8 I look forward to seeing how Putin manages to hold things together (or not).
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-02 11:21||   2016-09-02 11:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Putin is likely to regret his Syrian adventure as much as we have regretted some of ours. I'd be perfectly willing to sit back and watch it from the safety of my couch.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-09-02 11:33||   2016-09-02 11:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Wish him well. Stay the fok out and let the sand kaffr's fight it out.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-02 11:37||   2016-09-02 11:37|| Front Page Top

#11 I look forward to seeing how Putin manages to hold things together (or not).

He's passing the hot potato (or a hot riceball) to somebody else.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-02 15:15||   2016-09-02 15:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Can't be a 'superpower' unless you are also the "World's Policeman".
Posted by Bobby 2016-09-02 15:46||   2016-09-02 15:46|| Front Page Top

#13 The problem, Bobby, is whose laws does the policeman uphold?
Posted by AlanC 2016-09-02 16:00||   2016-09-02 16:00|| Front Page Top

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