'Children burned alive, tragic goodbyes and genocide' Assad's forces set to retake Al

Assad is small game next to a dozen other dictators all around the world. We don't invade them for a reason. Ask yourself why we want Assad so bad.

Hint: the North Koreans are killing children too.

 

We didn't invade Syria..

Assad had promised reforms for several years .. Syria had become a dustbowl. Farmers abandoned their farms and headed for overcrowded cities where unemployment was already a serious problem. Syria always had sectarian strife.. Oil production and revenues were in decline..

Look at Syria's history since 1949.. They have had many military coups.

When Assad had the schoolboys arrested for graffiti and some died in custody, protests erupted and Assad had the protestors shot.

When that happened 10,000 Sunni conscripts in the Syrian army defected. Obama had NOTHING to do with those events.

 

I did not say we had invaded Syria, though we have done things which clearly constitute acts of war, things which we would obviously not tolerate being done to us.

Assad is a wanker. I have no love for him. But he is not waging war outside his territory, he is scrambling to protect his power in the Syrian territory. Much like the Communist Party does in North Korea. They're executing and imprisoning huge numbers of political prisoners. I do not buy into UN R2P nonsense, and think such regimes should be left alone so long as they don't attack us and our allies, who ought to be small in number and carefully chosen.

 

Unfortunately for your theroy, the body count tells a different story.

We were killing them at the pace of 1000-1 before we got concerned with public opinion.

If you think that's losing, I'd love to see what winning looks like.

As for the government... what they do or did wasn't my concern. Our job was to kill the enemy, and we are really, really good at it.

 

The announcement that Afghanistan has a trillion dollars in rare earths, lithium, lapis, coal, oil etc was made in 2010.. but Americans in Saudi Arabia had known about it since the 1960s. Greed with speed and another civilian boondoggle costing a half billion dollars. Geological survey my butt.

 

The Chinese have been there mining for years already.

They pay off the insurgents though. That's how they operate without being worried their employees are going to be kidnapped.

The insurgency uses that money to buy more weapons to kill more Americans.

Long story short, no matter what, there are a group here in the US that will always blame us for anything and everything. That same group is what lost us the wars.

 

Yes.. and they have built a railroad and a power plant ... I've read where the local economy had picked up in those areas.

 

Because the Taliban won't blow it up...

I remember when I was there, just outside of Sangin in Helmand in a town called Gareshk (that's how we spelled it), the British built a bridge to help civilian traffic so that they wouldn't have to drive down the embankment and back up the other side.

A few days after the bridge was finished, the Taliban came in and blew it up.

 

I am NOT criticizing you or American troops.. Its just that long after we leave Afghanistan, China and Afghanistan will still be neighbors.