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"a civil war just like Syria is civil war" Because, as you say, "the issues" "did not come from outside?" Syria, CNN Dec. 2006: http://content.time.com/time/
by acqq 10y ago
"a civil war just like Syria is civil war"
Because, as you say, "the issues" "did not come from outside?"
Syria, CNN Dec. 2006:
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1571751,00.html http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1571751,00...
"The Bush Administration has been quietly nurturing individuals and parties opposed to the Syrian government in an effort to undermine the regime of President Bashar Assad."
The cable of the US ambassador in Syria, December 2006 via Wikileaks:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html
cryoshon quoted CIA director William Casey recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597168
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
"said by CIA Director William Casey at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries"
- nabla9 10y agoOutside forces have been messing with them, but the issues that created the civil war were not created by outside forces. Assad's family and Alawite minority were ruling Syria and Sunni majority was oppressed. It was just question of time when something happens.
- acqq 10y agoWithout the weapons and the logistic support provided from the outside, it wouldn't even be a war at all. It is a proxy war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proxy_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proxy_wars with at least 7 million refugees now.