The Crisis in Syria

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Dec 4, 2024.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    And most of the links in the Scheer Post article go to the information like the following (below) rather than truly supporting the points they assert. The links primarily show the outrageous human rights abuses of the Assad regime.

    The assertion that the Assad regime was great because it had “universal, free healthcare extended to all Syrian citizens, who “enjoyed some of the highest levels of care in the region" is absurd in the face that the Assad regime murdered hundreds of thousands of its citizens putting the bodies in mass graves.

    The article itself is merely an anti-capitalist rant -- trying to claim that dictatorship is better than democracy and that a crony corrupt economic system is better than capitalism. It's all bunk.

    End of mission statement of the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights to the Syrian Arab Republic, 13 to 17 May 2018
    https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements...act-unilateral-coercive?LangID=E&NewsID=23094
     
    #51     Dec 19, 2024
  2. mervyn

    mervyn

    corruption my ass, the new guy will take over and even more corrupt. girls will be forced to wear hijab in public and be homeschool
     
    #52     Dec 19, 2024
  3. Ricter

    Ricter

    #53     Dec 19, 2024
  4. Ricter

    Ricter

    How did I know GWB would arrive with some apology for US empire?
    Lol
     
    #54     Dec 19, 2024
  5. wildchild

    wildchild

    Damn Canadian. You lost.

    Georgia appeals court disqualifies DA Fani Willis and her team from Trump election interference case
     
    #55     Dec 19, 2024
  6. Nobert

    Nobert

     
    #56     Dec 20, 2024
  7. Nobert

    Nobert

    Lol, haven't seen this one, sadly or maybe intentionally, stars-ship troopers like aim

     
    #57     Dec 20, 2024
  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #58     Dec 21, 2024
  9. tomorton

    tomorton

    Most American members will not have heard of the criticism levelled recently at a senior UK government Minister by one of his own over Syria.

    The line of thought runs that failure to bomb Assad's forces when he used chemical weapons against the Syrian rebels convinced Putin that the West would not intervene if he occupied Crimea. So Putin took Crimea and when the West again did not intervene, he also realised he could take Ukraine without our interference. Of course that plan was a stretch too far but it has still left thousands of Ukrainians dead or homeless and the country has been to the brink of being conquered.

    The reason given for the West's failure to act in Syria was that the UK Parliament was split by Ed Milliband, then Labour leader in opposition, as he refused to support the UK Conservative government in militarily supporting the US-led coalition aimed at degrading Assad's chemical weapons capability by air attack. This was the first time a UK government had lost a request for unanimous Parliamentary support for military action by Britain in more than 300 years. Because Britain would not support the campaign, neither would Obama, which meant it basically would never get off the ground.

    All of which means that Islamists, not our natural allies, are now in control of Syria.
     
    #59     Dec 22, 2024
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  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Last edited: Dec 22, 2024
    #60     Dec 22, 2024
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