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Maybe if the great powers weren't so busy playing geo-political chess by proxy there wouldn't be so many refugees. Syria was fairly stable before the west decid

by jqm 11y ago

Maybe if the great powers weren't so busy playing geo-political chess by proxy there wouldn't be so many refugees. Syria was fairly stable before the west decided Assad should go. Syria was fairly stable before the west destabilized Iraq. This is the problem.

dao- 11y ago
edit: accidentally submitted too early, sorry. Syria was fairly stable until its people made demands and their leader responded with gun fire. Not sure where you see the role of "the West" in that escalation. Do you think the problem was that the West sneakily infected Syrian people with the absurd idea that they could have the same rights as people elsewhere? Or maybe that the West failed to support Syrian rebels when they begged for it, allowing Assad to go on fighting his people for years and IS and other jihadist groups to gain ground in the country?
- jqm 11y ago
  Most Syrians supported Assad. Also, many of the militant revolutionaries were imported from other countries and supported/trained by foreign powers including the gulf states. Now we have ISIS which is simply an extension of that program that has maybe gotten a bit out of control. Foreign meddling caused this problem. Very simply.
  - dao- 11y ago
    > Most Syrians supported Assad. That's interesting. When exactly and according to what survey did most Syrians support Assad? Do they still support him today or if not, when did they stop?
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    - brl 11y ago
      Well there was this survey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_presidential_election,_2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_presidential_election,_... Also surveyed at that time were the million Syrian refugees living in Lebanon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/05/28/this-is-what-the-syrian-election-looks-like-in-lebanon/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/05/28...
hnpc123 11y ago
So what you're saying is that Arabs are too simple and stupid to make their own decisions about what they want and what actions to take. Must be white people driving the events in Syria.
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by jqm 11y ago

dao- 11y ago

edit: accidentally submitted too early, sorry. Syria was fairly stable until its people made demands and their leader responded with gun fire. Not sure where you see the role of "the West" in that escalation. Do you think the problem was that the West sneakily infected Syrian people with the absurd idea that they could have the same rights as people elsewhere? Or maybe that the West failed to support Syrian rebels when they begged for it, allowing Assad to go on fighting his people for years and IS and other jihadist groups to gain ground in the country?

jqm 11y ago
Most Syrians supported Assad. Also, many of the militant revolutionaries were imported from other countries and supported/trained by foreign powers including the gulf states. Now we have ISIS which is simply an extension of that program that has maybe gotten a bit out of control. Foreign meddling caused this problem. Very simply.
- dao- 11y ago
  > Most Syrians supported Assad. That's interesting. When exactly and according to what survey did most Syrians support Assad? Do they still support him today or if not, when did they stop?
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  - brl 11y ago
    Well there was this survey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_presidential_election,_2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_presidential_election,_... Also surveyed at that time were the million Syrian refugees living in Lebanon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/05/28/this-is-what-the-syrian-election-looks-like-in-lebanon/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/05/28...

hnpc123 11y ago

So what you're saying is that Arabs are too simple and stupid to make their own decisions about what they want and what actions to take. Must be white people driving the events in Syria.

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