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> 2. Get at least a single regiment on their side, and raid stockpiles, which I bet are still full of union's surplus hardware enough to arm the entire populati

> 2. Get at least a single regiment on their side, and raid stockpiles, which I bet are still full of union's surplus hardware enough to arm the entire population few times over. This is a very, very bad idea, and I say this as a former reader of /r/syriancivilwar/ in its "heydays" (~2014-2016). Afaik by 2016-2017 many of the Syrian simple citizens just wanted peace, they were tired of the war, they were tired of politics. What you suggest is equivalent to civil war.

baybal2 5y ago
No, the People want the downfall of the criminal regime, no food, no life, no salvation, but justice, justice above this all. By telling that you throw a gravest insult to every Syrian man, and woman who did the sacrifice on a plainly unthinkable scale for liberty, and justice — virtues you usually expect to hear more from an American, than anybody else. Do you realise the scale of their sacrifice?
- paganel 5y ago
  > Do you realise the scale of their sacrifice? We have a saying in my language (Romanian): "The operation was successful, the patient is dead". Unfortunately (for those who had opposed him) in Syria's case even the operation was unsuccessful, as Assad is still in power, but the patient (Syria) is most certainly dead, or as close to death as one country can be. Again, I don't know of any civil war "success story" in Europe and its surroundings from the last 100 years or so: the Spanish Civil War came with huge losses for both sides and led to a fractured society that is still there if you know where to look, similar thing happened to Greece (maybe in their case the fracture is smaller nowadays? can't tell as I don't know Greek and as such I can't read their media), the post-WW1 Civil War in present-day Ukraine was also not something to be proud of, to say nothing of the Yugoslav wars from the 1990s.
  - baybal2 5y ago
    This stance is very demoralising.

baybal2 5y ago

No, the People want the downfall of the criminal regime, no food, no life, no salvation, but justice, justice above this all. By telling that you throw a gravest insult to every Syrian man, and woman who did the sacrifice on a plainly unthinkable scale for liberty, and justice — virtues you usually expect to hear more from an American, than anybody else. Do you realise the scale of their sacrifice?

paganel 5y ago
> Do you realise the scale of their sacrifice? We have a saying in my language (Romanian): "The operation was successful, the patient is dead". Unfortunately (for those who had opposed him) in Syria's case even the operation was unsuccessful, as Assad is still in power, but the patient (Syria) is most certainly dead, or as close to death as one country can be. Again, I don't know of any civil war "success story" in Europe and its surroundings from the last 100 years or so: the Spanish Civil War came with huge losses for both sides and led to a fractured society that is still there if you know where to look, similar thing happened to Greece (maybe in their case the fracture is smaller nowadays? can't tell as I don't know Greek and as such I can't read their media), the post-WW1 Civil War in present-day Ukraine was also not something to be proud of, to say nothing of the Yugoslav wars from the 1990s.
- baybal2 5y ago
  This stance is very demoralising.