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The military is backing Syrias leader.
How is that scenario working out for Assad?
The military is backing Syrias leader.
How is that scenario working out for Assad?
Last I checked he wasn't dead.
I asked, respectfully and rationally, a question that you could easily answer.
If all you have is expletives to support your ideas, what do you think that says about how valid they are?
The answer is:
The military would not have been able to counter the overwhelming opposition, without a civil war.
Since the military command structure was not made up of a different ethnic group, as it was in Syrias case, it would have not have been possible to get the army to actually crack down on their fellow Egyptians.
The military command chose between a civil war, and fulfilling its normal societal role in that country (do some background reading on this, it is interesting). It was an easy call, and had almost nothing to do with what the US did or didn't want. They knew we need them too badly and would not cut off aid no matter what they did. They were free to make their own call.
How is that working for Assad?
Yet.
His military bases are being abandoned and overrun by rebels. He will not last much longer, as the rebels get better armed, and his army deserts him because even the common soldier sees the writing on the wall at this point.
He will end up as Ghadaffi did, if he doesn't take Hitler's out.
I'm not going to write a ing dissertation on mideast relations just because you demand it.
Siding with, and propping up dictators is one of the prime stated reasons in all of Al Qaeda's stated manifestos. The US then becomes identified with the hated dicatators, and that is why you get 9-11 style mass attacks on Westerners.
Propping them up harms our long term interests far more, as the dictators are temporary, but the resentment will outlive them long long after they are dead.
If Cosmic Cowboy ever ventured far enough from Fox news to actually read what these people say about their own motives and agenda, he would know that.
Thinking that propping up such dictators is in our best interest is only possible if you are sadly ignorant of who/what the Al Qaeda brand generally is, IMO.
I think you are assigning something approaching reason to AQ's motivations. As a group, AQ is not bound by nor operates under rule of reason.
I thought AQ hated us because of our freedoms...
That is because you can't.
If you don't want to admit it, that is your business I guess, but don't ask me to support policy ideas based on your ignorance.
I know how and why the things you say are wrong, can spell that out, and can provide a few sources if you want to improve your understanding. It is human to push back against information that goes against existing understanding, even if that information is valid and true.
If you want to learn a bit more, I can provide you some background.
So RG wants to throw Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the UAE under the Al Qaeda bus?
BTW, where was Obama's moral outrage when Bahrain was cracking heads on their protestors?
I am not assigning them reason.
I am assigning them honesty, because there is no indication they are lying about why they hate us, and do what they do.
Crazy does prohibit honesty, or even semi-logical reasoning, based on crazy delusions. Even schizophrenics act with a certain internal logic, however misguided.
@ RandomGuy, the Al Qaeda apologist.
If you wish. It was well meant, and freely given. I like to read up on this, and seek as much information as possible.
Moving from expletives to strawmen.
Be my guest. Let me know when you get tired of fighting ideas and opinions I don't have.
Moving from expletives to strawmen.
Be my guest. Let me know when you get tired of fighting ideas and opinions I don't have. Part 2
The reason I resent the out of you bashing me on the middle east is that I have stated over and over that IMHO we have no ing business being over there and aren't accomplishing a damn thing but blowing trillions of dollars and getting a lot of people killed. Your accusations of me being a Fox news clone are outrageous lies.
Alright then. I apologize, and will refrain from saying it in the future.
I am of the opinion we should pull back as well, for the most part. We still have interests there, so it is not quite easy to simply walk away though.
Maddow posited last night that the only reason they are giving ambassador rice trouble is so that Kerry will get the job thereby resigning his senate seat which scott Brown could theoretically fill giving the Rs a seat back in the senate. I thought it was a little conspiratorial at the time, but now that multiple senators have come out in favor of Kerry for SoS, I have to say there may be something to it.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-senat...ating-process/
He didn't ask for that. He just asked for you to tell what you thought created the anti-American Muslim fundamentalst sentiment against the US. I could do that in about a paragraph but heaven forbid you actually answer thoughtfully or intelligently when you can instead cling to what you want to believe.
If that were the case, Obama would simply not nominate Kerry.
Not exactly an effective ploy, if true.
Hmm? They want Kerry as they want his seat in The senate. They don't want Rice so they are smearing her credibility.
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