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Assad wants power and control over Syria, obviously. The guy has few appealing exile options. Most of the regime's members would face execution if they lost, so

by tormeh 10y ago

Assad wants power and control over Syria, obviously. The guy has few appealing exile options. Most of the regime's members would face execution if they lost, so they don't want that.

meira 10y ago
> Assad wants power and control over Syria, obviously This is a President's prerrogative. Why is US preventing this to happen?
- cmurf 10y ago
  Syria's Constitution makes the country a single party system. Assad is a dictator. There's nothing democratic about its government. It's a family dictatorship. The people wanted their ouster, Assad refused to go and lit the stables on fire in a huge fuck you to the whole country.
  - meira 10y ago
    The people elected recently a parlament that supports Assad, which was also elected by vote. I don't see a good reason given for US to go there, fund ISIS and screw half a dozen of countries.
    - cmurf 10y ago
      How do people have fair elections in the middle of a war zone with a single political party as the option? The entire opposition boycotted the election. What is your point in even bringing up such a obvious sham of an election? And which half a dozen countries are you talking about exactly, that aren't already screwed? I'm a non-interventionist myself, but it isn't an absolute position. Accepting years long conflict isn't good for anyone either.
      - meira 10y ago
        US elections are also totally biased, all media is bashing Trump and supporting Hillary. How do people have fair election there? Should China and Rússia intervene?
  - littletimmy 10y ago
    If that is the only reason, why isn't the US also acting against Saudi Arabia? It is a repressive monarchy. Coming to think of it, the US resembles an oligarchy more than anything else. Perhaps Russia should start arming rebels in the US?
Noseshine 10y ago
That is just what I mean, the opposite of an analysis and actual information. In this thread we can see the consequence of the population being bombarded with platitudes instead of information, everybody feels they should have an opinion, after all, we've heard so much about the conflict now! On the other hand nobody has anything worthwhile to say really, including myself, since we know next to nothing. I just wish that at the very least people become more conscious of when they know nothing and merely regurgitate the sound bites they've heard often enough to have memorized and internalized them. Another issue with the shallow feel-bad event-based stories is that they are much more easily manipulated than actual deep analysis of the background behind conflicts.

by tormeh 10y ago

Assad wants power and control over Syria, obviously. The guy has few appealing exile options. Most of the regime's members would face execution if they lost, so they don't want that.

meira 10y ago

> Assad wants power and control over Syria, obviously This is a President's prerrogative. Why is US preventing this to happen?

cmurf 10y ago
Syria's Constitution makes the country a single party system. Assad is a dictator. There's nothing democratic about its government. It's a family dictatorship. The people wanted their ouster, Assad refused to go and lit the stables on fire in a huge fuck you to the whole country.
- meira 10y ago
  The people elected recently a parlament that supports Assad, which was also elected by vote. I don't see a good reason given for US to go there, fund ISIS and screw half a dozen of countries.
  - cmurf 10y ago
    How do people have fair elections in the middle of a war zone with a single political party as the option? The entire opposition boycotted the election. What is your point in even bringing up such a obvious sham of an election? And which half a dozen countries are you talking about exactly, that aren't already screwed? I'm a non-interventionist myself, but it isn't an absolute position. Accepting years long conflict isn't good for anyone either.
    - meira 10y ago
      US elections are also totally biased, all media is bashing Trump and supporting Hillary. How do people have fair election there? Should China and Rússia intervene?
- littletimmy 10y ago
  If that is the only reason, why isn't the US also acting against Saudi Arabia? It is a repressive monarchy. Coming to think of it, the US resembles an oligarchy more than anything else. Perhaps Russia should start arming rebels in the US?

Noseshine 10y ago

That is just what I mean, the opposite of an analysis and actual information. In this thread we can see the consequence of the population being bombarded with platitudes instead of information, everybody feels they should have an opinion, after all, we've heard so much about the conflict now! On the other hand nobody has anything worthwhile to say really, including myself, since we know next to nothing. I just wish that at the very least people become more conscious of when they know nothing and merely regurgitate the sound bites they've heard often enough to have memorized and internalized them. Another issue with the shallow feel-bad event-based stories is that they are much more easily manipulated than actual deep analysis of the background behind conflicts.