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Take a step back and you might notice the following: One side in the war is methodically bombing bread queues and hospitals. Our media is reporting that one s

Take a step back and you might notice the following: One side in the war is methodically bombing bread queues and hospitals. Our media is reporting that one side in the war is methodically bombing bread queues and hospitals. I'd say the former is connected tightly to the latter.

meira 10y ago
Take another step back: One side is defending its territorial integrity with help of Russia. Another side are terrorists receiving support of US/NATO. Why shouldn't former totally obliterate the latter? Because of their big bully ally? At least don't make it looks like human rights defense, this is all propaganda.
- girvo 10y ago
  Bombing civilians is never okay, though; it's not okay when the government does it, it's not okay when the rebels do it. It should be roundly condemned regardless of the perpetrator, and brushing it off as "defending territorial integrity" shows your _own_ bias, in my opinion. There are no "good guys" and there's a fucked messy situation there and I personally only have sympathy for the completely innocent people caught in the crossfire. Anyone doing the firing I have none for.
  - meira 10y ago
    If the people you call civilians are terrorists loaded with heavy guns gave by western "allies", I think it is ok to bomb them. I think it is not okay for a foreign country inadvertently bomb neither side, though.
- ocschwar 10y ago
  One side, as a consistent modus operandi, seeks and destroys bread queues and hospitals. Don't try to paper that over.
cloakandswagger 10y ago
You are very impressionable I see. The only lens you have to view this war through is the one you're allowed to see, and you believe it! I guess the world really is that black and white then. Just like your movies.
- ocschwar 10y ago
  "You are very impressionable I see. The only lens you have to view this war through is the one you're allowed to see, and you believe it! " There is more than enough evidence to show that Assad has, in fact, been methodically bombing bread queues and hospitals. Maybe that should bother you more than the media reporting on it.
  - emptyfile 10y ago
    But somehow this is only a huge deal in Syria and irrelevant in Yemen...

meira 10y ago

Take another step back: One side is defending its territorial integrity with help of Russia. Another side are terrorists receiving support of US/NATO. Why shouldn't former totally obliterate the latter? Because of their big bully ally? At least don't make it looks like human rights defense, this is all propaganda.

girvo 10y ago
Bombing civilians is never okay, though; it's not okay when the government does it, it's not okay when the rebels do it. It should be roundly condemned regardless of the perpetrator, and brushing it off as "defending territorial integrity" shows your _own_ bias, in my opinion. There are no "good guys" and there's a fucked messy situation there and I personally only have sympathy for the completely innocent people caught in the crossfire. Anyone doing the firing I have none for.
- meira 10y ago
  If the people you call civilians are terrorists loaded with heavy guns gave by western "allies", I think it is ok to bomb them. I think it is not okay for a foreign country inadvertently bomb neither side, though.
ocschwar 10y ago
One side, as a consistent modus operandi, seeks and destroys bread queues and hospitals. Don't try to paper that over.

cloakandswagger 10y ago

You are very impressionable I see. The only lens you have to view this war through is the one you're allowed to see, and you believe it! I guess the world really is that black and white then. Just like your movies.

ocschwar 10y ago
"You are very impressionable I see. The only lens you have to view this war through is the one you're allowed to see, and you believe it! " There is more than enough evidence to show that Assad has, in fact, been methodically bombing bread queues and hospitals. Maybe that should bother you more than the media reporting on it.
- emptyfile 10y ago
  But somehow this is only a huge deal in Syria and irrelevant in Yemen...