Syria

[trollmaster2000]

Its all kicking off in Syria, and the media is now asking what the rest of the world should be doing. So what should "we" do?


poll coming

 

[mdf290]

Well as usual it's too late thanks to our initial meddling anyway.

I really cannot understand the wests naivity when it comes to Hard line Islamic issues.

In Iraq and Afghanistan we fight Al Qaida

In Syria we support them!!!

The truth is regardless of our revulsion of the non democratic nature of eastern countries in reality Saddam new BEST how to keep his coutry under control and Syria the same.

Anyone thinking that the victory of hardline Islamists can be anything but retrograde even compared to Assads rule has a rude awakening coming.

 

[joe-90]

The lid was always going to pop off when the Internet and personal communications came along. No Internet - no Arab spring.

Besides, what gives you the right to condemn others to live under horrible regimes just because it suits you?

 

[wotan]

One could say, what gives them the right to expect us to change for them, something of their own making?

Wotan

 

[RigidRaider]

It's notable how their Arab neighbours are turning their eyes the other way. Nobody seems to want to get involved as this is going to turn really nasty and it could have repercussions all over the Middle East.

 

[joe-90]

For the world you mean. I'm pretty sure that Syria has a defence pact with Russia.

 

[trollmaster2000]

Russia and Syria have no pact. They have a loose alliance founded in the 50's when Russia hoped Syria would become a communist state, and has been strained since. Syria is just a pawn in Russia's geopolitical gamesmanship, and would be dropped like a hot potato by Russia, if the SHTF.

We should nuke 'em off the face of the earth. Run a massive oil pipeline through it's scorched land from Iraq.

 

[pred]

When you say "give them military backing" i assume you mean supply them with arms to defend themselves.

 

[joe-90]

Or legs to run off.

 

[pred]

Or legs to run off.

What a ridiculas answer, your stooping to my level Joe.

 

[safara]

We only know what we are told.

 

[LargeWrench]

It's a joke the nonsense we're spoon fed in the western media. The uprising has been funded and run by the Saudi's and by the CIA. They're providing the money and the arms to sustain the uprising. They don't give a toss about 'freeing' the syrian people, the reason they're intervening is to weaken Iran since Syria is Iran's main ally. It's nauseating when you hear western politicians calling for Assad to be overthrown, yet turn a blind eye to the far worse human right abuses in Saudi Arabia and the ongoing occupation of Palestinian land by the Israelis. Syria was a relatively stable country before this all kicked off and one of the only counties in the middle east where other minority religions were treated well.

Once again it's another western intervention in the middle east that has and will continue to cause chaos. The uprising has already been infiltrated by Al Qaeda and other Islamic fundamentalists and there's a good chance that whoever ends up in charge will be far less moderate than Assad ever was. When will we ever learn?

 

[longdogs]

Let 'em get on with it. The UK can no longer afford to police the World. we should be concentrating on our own security.

Perhaps G4S could help out?

 

[joe-90]

It's not about people - it's about the oil fields and who controls them.

When the west loses control of the Middle East - then it IS your problem.

 

[Space cat]

The options --

1) What we probably should do.

2) What we almost certainly will do. Totally ineffective but it looks good.

3) What we might have done if there'd been enough oil.

4) Was there ever a democracy to restore? (Help me out here; I really don't know.)

5) Now that's just silly. Who's going to pay for the camps - and what do we do when G4S don't turn up for work?

6) That would violate the ban on above-ground nuclear tests and the fallout would be more than just political.