Owner59
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam Actually, owner. I was being a bit too subtle for most folks once again pointing out that, despite all the moralizing about our "adventures on foreign shores being purely humanitarian ". It's all about one thing, resources, particularly oil. Oppressed people who are sitting on top of a huge oil reserve get 'liberated'. Oppressed people who are sitting on top of noting valuable get.....oppressed. That`s a pretty reasonable observation. When the Syrian civil war started.......we had just intervened in Libya......to the chagrin of our extremist-righties here. We heard comments like "oh, Obama can go to Libya and Egypt but won`t help the Syrians".Finding out why this was so, seemed less important than bashing the president. One of the reasons Mubarak is in jail is because his sons didn`t become military officers and Mubarak didn`t have a family/clan dominated government/Army, like Assad has. Saddam did the same by having his sons and blood relatives in charge of everything. When one family controls every aspect of a nation from it`s government to the military to the police and secret police to loyal armed militias,it`s pretty much impossible to remove them if they are willing to do anything to stay in power. Unfortunately in Syria,we`ve been unable to help,yet,b/c there is not free-Syrian army......yet. But the president has been affective on the international front in isolating Syria down to just a few countries.As well as talking the ruskies into taking their attack copters back to Russia. There are good sized chunks of the Lebanese border now under rebel control which means the flow of weapons to them will swell. It wasn`t clear when the Syrian civil war would end early on.Of course we all would have liked it if Assad had steped down and retired but after commiting his mass killings of civilians......he was a marked man....no one there was going to just take it lying down. It`s over for Assad and his ilk.It`s just a matter of time but I pray that the wait is short one.
< Message edited by Owner59 -- 7/22/2012 8:57:46 AM >
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