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2015-09-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Will Putin be able to carry al-Assad forever?

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Posted by Fred 2015-09-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Only as long as he Assad proves successful in fighting-n-destroying the Hard Boyz.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-09-30 03:06|| 2015-09-30 03:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Repeating the same mistake as Afghanistan and Iraq. This isn't about individual x or y. It's about which ethno-religious group is in power.

Thinking that getting fid off a particular individual make everything all brotherly love is delusional.

Posted by phil_b 2015-09-30 04:46|| 2015-09-30 04:46|| Front Page Top

#3 but Putin's outright support for a terrible anti-hero like al-Assad is not something I can understand or accept

Because it's not a Hollywood movie?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-09-30 05:32|| 2015-09-30 05:32|| Front Page Top

#4 What does Putin get out of cozying up to Assad? Influence, intelligence a warm water port in the Mediterranean and some commerce. He is jockeying to get the prestige in the M.E. that Obean has so easily given up.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-09-30 08:33|| 2015-09-30 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 but Putin's outright support for a terrible anti-hero like al-Assad is not something I can understand or accept

two words, Joseph Stalin. Seemed acceptable '41-'45.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-30 09:20|| 2015-09-30 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 OK, Assad is a bad guy. What is your alternative? More war and chaos, right? Refugees streaming into Europe? US, Russian, Chinese, Turkish and Iranian troops all united to defeat ISIS and install a democratic government in Damascus? WWIII?

How about if we all back off and let the Arabs figure it out for themselves?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-09-30 12:12|| 2015-09-30 12:12|| Front Page Top

#7 > think al-Assad can have no place in the future of Syria

A cunning diplomatic play on words... No more Syria, no more problems.

All Hail Assad president of Alawiteistan..

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-09-30 13:13|| 2015-09-30 13:13|| Front Page Top

#8 This really is a positive development.

Assad fought the Syrian rebels and lost.

Then the Iranians and Hasbullah joined him in fighting the Syrian rebels and lost.

Now the Russians have joined him, and will lose.

Letting our enemies waste their resources on losses is not a bad strategy.

Posted by rammer 2015-09-30 21:59|| 2015-09-30 21:59|| Front Page Top

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