Quote Originally Posted by walrus View Post

I don't know Kirk, with Iran, China and Russia backing Bashir Syria unfortunately becomes a chess game and the people living their are the ones that suffer while read about it and discuss it in the paper. I remember shortly before the doody hitting the fan there was a nyt magazine special about Bashir and his wife. His wife lived a very opulent lifestyle. I think it was one of the things that pissed the Syrian people off. It's a shame, Syria has a beautiful history with some of the oldest Christian communities in the world. Bashir actually took time to protect those Christians who are now being butchered by the caliphate. With the middle eastern history I know many of us in the US would love to visit it but who wants to visit a war torn country, I can go to Chicago for that. It's a shame the whole Damn thing, I hope the best for the people of Syria, I'm sure they are just walking around like WTF. People just want a decent life. We take so much for granted and then read and pontificate about it like we know what the he'll is going on.
Syria has always been a country where big powers have fought their proxy wars. Just not as an actual war, that's a new thing. Every single Middle Eastern dictator lives an opulent lifestyle including all the ones we've kept in power for decades.

What we're doing there is the samr ridiculous thing we've done in countries like Ukraine and Libya. Some guy is in power who isn't allied to us so we've done everything we can to overthrow him and just expecting peace to break out the minute the regime is overthrown and a stable pro-American government to take its place. Because that's what happened in Iraq! It's hard to believe how idiotic our policies are. Iraq, Syria and Libya are ongoing nightmares with Yemen and other regional countries on the way to the same kind of faile d states. In a few years if we we somehow able to produce a bunch of guys like Saddam, Gaddafi and Assad and put them in charge and for them to produce peace and stability we'd be popping champagne corks. We'd immediately back them and fund them and prop up their regimes just like we once did to Saddam, Gadaffi, Assad* and so on.

*To be fair it was Hafez Assad, Bashir's dad who we propped up for a long time.