Well, get back to me, when your memory improves. And yes it is a dictatorship, but I wouldn't expect anyone who lived their life in a bubble of denial within that brutal regime, to accept that fact.
Oh I haven't lived my life in a bubble.. How odd that you would assume such a thing. Saudi Arabia is a monarchy that requires consensus of the governors and ministers, the technocrats, clergy and merchants.
It's not odd given your lifestyle while living their. In the past, you've ignored all valid criticism of the totalitarian state among human rights organizations and others.
Saudi Arabia is not an absolute monarchy in the way of European kings in the past... and it certainly isn't a dictatorship.. Have you lived and worked there? Currently there are 40,000 Americans who are there and you can question them on one of several websites.
Name one difference. Absolute Monarchy: Rule by a single individual. Usually authoritarian. Dictatorship: Rule by a single individual. Usually authoritarian. How many of those 40,000 are actually Saudi citizens?
Trout, Saudi Arabia plays things very close to the vest.. You and the vast majority of insta-pundits speculate because they have NO access.
I'll believe in the non-speculative findings of various non-political human rights organizations who DO have access.
Where do you get these ideas? Why would the returning refugees resent the state, and not resent the nations who supported the foreign rebels? Aren't the nations that interfered the ones that destroyed Syria, and didn't the people vote for Assad because he is fighting them and giving the people the government they want? Why is that so difficult to understand?
Are the attacks for regime change, or are they to support the Kurds since a Syrian Kurdistan would be a corridor for the oil pipes to bypass Turkey and Syria and go directly from Iraq to the Mediterranean. From what I gathered the U.S. and Israel are heavily invested in Iraq's Kurdistan.
I'll tell you why it's difficult for some to understand. The level of Western media brainwashing is pervasive.
Well, the United States is on a global and permanent state of war whose rationale is a project of sociopolitical transformation - the use of the military power of the United States to impose "democratic values" in parts of the world that are identified as threats to "liberal civilization". As the philosopher Giorgio Agamben put it, "the White House is trying to impose on its country and on the planet as a whole a permanent state of emergency, which is presented to us as a response to the kind of global civil war between the state and terrorism.". This is hardly a hidden agenda. On the contrary, it is proclaimed publicly, not merely by neoconservative ideologues embodied in the U.S war manifesto, 'The National Security Strategy of the United States of America', published in September, 2002, but continues under Obama. As for the aim, it is well expressed in the name of a key neoconservative pressure group, The Project for the New American Century. The definitive article is significant - New American Century. This is about shaping the world for the next 100 years according to the interests and values of American free-market capitalism. Regime change in Syria is a component motivating factor that drives this project. This is hardly controversial.
The dictatorship is Syria is just fine but the one in KSA is an atrocity against freedom? how diffrent is your approach from the US when it comes to pick allies ?
Where do you? Because believe it or not civilians have been killed in this war both by the army and rebels. You should also note that I was not just talking about the Syrian refugees but also those who have stayed that is if you took the time to read my posts. The only nation that is destroying Syria is Syria. I wouldn't take stock in the vote either. I've answered you queries why don't you respond to my previous posts as I think that's a little courtesy you can extend to me or are you just another internet psychopath?
So Syrian Army is not capable? On it's last legs? Assad in panic and verge of collapse? 212 airstrikes in 36 hours. That is a record. I hope soon there will be 2120 airstrikes in 36 hours. Syrian Air Force carries out 210 airstrikes in 36 hours! BEIRUT, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The Syrian air force carried out more than 200 air strikes around the country in the past 36 hours, a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, a rapid increase in government raids as U.S.-led forces bomb Islamist insurgents elsewhere. The intensified strikes by President Bashar al-Assad's forces will add to the fear among his opponents that the government is taking advantage of the U.S. raids on Islamic State to attack other foes, including opposition groups that Washington backs. Analysts say the increase could be because the Syrian military wants to weaken rebel groups before they get training and equipment promised by the United States. Since midnight on Sunday, the Syrian military carried out at least 210 raids, including barrel bombings, on provinces in the east, north and west of the country, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said there were many casualties but did not give an exact figure. The military concentrated the strikes in the "western corridor" that stretches from the southwest up through Damascus towards the Mediterranean, according to the information from the the Observatory, which says it gathers details from all sides of the conflict. The air raids struck areas in the Hama, Daraa, Idlib, Aleppo and Quneitra provinces as well as the Damascus countryside, it said. It also hit the eastern Deir al-Zor province where U.S.-led forces have also been bombing Islamic State, the Observatory added. Before the surge in Syrian air force raids, the military had carried out 12-20 raids a day, according to the Observatory. Damascus has not raised objections to the U.S. bombing of Islamic State, which is mainly based in the east and north of the country, far from the most populous areas near Damascus and the Mediterranean coast. The United States says it does not want to help Assad's government despite bombing Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that has become one of the most powerful insurgent groups in the more than three-year conflict.
Syrian society is more relaxed and free than Saudi society ever dreams of being. Syria has a dictatorship when it comes to politics. We are very progressive when it comes to womens rights, minority rights, personal freedoms, education, travel....etc... Even Hezbollah protects Christians in Syria and in Lebanon Hezbollah is directly responsible for safety of all churches in areas which they control. Here is a photo of a fighter in Syria deployed to a Christian town. He is saluting the vrigin mary. How can you compare any of this to Saudi dogs and their stone age society?! It is an insult to Syria
