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2015-10-13 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 By appointing yourself a World Policeman without going through a police academy first?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-13 04:25|| 2015-10-13 04:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Assad saw both Mubarak and Quadaffi 'agree to cooperate' just be steamrolled out of power. He had no choice but the resist and fight. I did not suspect him to last this long but he may actually survive the mess.

Posted by Airandee 2015-10-13 06:54|| 2015-10-13 06:54|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not about Assad, Airandee, it's about Alawites, Christians, Kurds, and Sunni knives.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-13 06:56|| 2015-10-13 06:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Sunni and Shia don't get along unless one has a boot on their throat.

When the US took out Iraq we did our best to avoid dividing the nation. Pulling out of Iraq (and thus leaving the minority Sunni dependent on Shia good graces) while simultaneously arming the Sunni's in Syria started the mess.

So you have a Sunni state forming out of the corpse of two multi-ethnic states. Sunni wealth and manpower pour in to support their co-sunni and we end up with a divided Iraq anyway (and the division being uncontrollable might end up with borders who knows where before its done).

It's all fairly predictable, or should have been to intelligence services.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-10-13 11:34|| 2015-10-13 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 and Jon Karry didn't even get a Nobel outta it. Not fair!

Posted by Frank G 2015-10-13 12:11|| 2015-10-13 12:11|| Front Page Top

#6 What is up with WaPo trying to tell the truth?

Methinks certain parts of the media, like WaPo and the NYT, are miffed that they're not being kept informed by the regime.

Posted by Pappy 2015-10-13 12:25|| 2015-10-13 12:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Assad saw both Mubarak and Quadaffi 'agree to cooperate' just be steamrolled out of power. He had no choice but the resist and fight. I did not suspect him to last this long but he may actually survive the mess.

Of course, they 'agreed to cooperate' with the nationalist Americans and (at least in Qaddafi's case) got steamrolled by the Soviet-Americans for betraying the Khan Network and making the Stuxnet operation possible.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-10-13 12:56|| 2015-10-13 12:56|| Front Page Top

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