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Idlib is the last refuge of ISIS and their ilk. Yes they’re defending their country from the worst Islamic dictatorship, which tpnewrly took over. I don’t blame
by Synaesthesia 7y ago
Idlib is the last refuge of ISIS and their ilk. Yes they’re defending their country from the worst Islamic dictatorship, which tpnewrly took over. I don’t blame them. The US also flattened Mosul and killed over 1500 people there in airstrikes, fighting ISIS.
Nobody has a good record in the war. But this insistence that Assad has to go, is entirely politically motivated. He’s a hideous dictator yes, but Sisi of Egypt is much worse. Yet he’s treated with respect.
Now Syria is trying to rebuild their country and reunify, we should help them and not start any more fires there.
- golemiprague 7y agoWhy Sisi is much worst than Assad? The Assad family controlled and butchered the Suni majority for generations, it already started with his father butchering 20k people in Hama, how is Sisi compared to that? Sisi just a secular guy who seems to be a bit too friendly with America and Israel which brings the ire of many extreme Muslims, especially the Muslim brotherhood types which Obama used to love so much. Is it so bad to be secular and peaceful?
- samrosea 7y agodidn't think I'd see assadists on hn
- ComputerGuru 7y agoMosul and Idlib aren’t really comparable, tbh. Of all the horrible things Daesh has done, collectively staining the name of anyone rebelling against the Assad regime (except perhaps for the Kurdish fighters who’ve kept their own identity) and allowing (literally) millions of refugees and freedom fighters to be labeled ISIL members or sympathizers that are acceptable collateral has to be the worst.
- Synaesthesia 7y agoWhy aren't they comparable? It's funny for me to see news coverage of all the atrocities Russia commits there, but none of the US in Idlib.