I don’t agree that the pre-civil war state should be the comparison. The civil war started due to peaceful protests against the government, which were then brutally repressed.
I also don’t usually look through comment history before commenting. That being said, I’ll retract my “fuck off tankie” statement (and will read articles from iran news wire with MEQ in mind). I don’t really believe the 30k killed is propaganda, but there’s little chance we’ll agree on that.
15k in a day is Nazi level of daily murder. It took years of logistics to do it. I don’t understand how people get fooled by this.
Yes, the revolt started peacefully and genuinely in Syria, and Bashar the butcher did respond by killing protesters. But the war quickly turned into a civil war and stopped being about freedom against a brutal dictator. The foreign-backed rebel forces started retaliating on the Alawites.
Yes, Bashar is responsible for starting the mess in the first place, but the foreign interference is the reason for that mess, which not only includes the West but also Russia. Look at Egypt: thanks to the non-interference, only 800 protesters were killed, which is still terrible—it could have been another Syria or Libya.
I don’t agree that the pre-civil war state should be the comparison. The civil war started due to peaceful protests against the government, which were then brutally repressed.
I also don’t usually look through comment history before commenting. That being said, I’ll retract my “fuck off tankie” statement (and will read articles from iran news wire with MEQ in mind). I don’t really believe the 30k killed is propaganda, but there’s little chance we’ll agree on that.
15k in a day is Nazi level of daily murder. It took years of logistics to do it. I don’t understand how people get fooled by this.
Yes, the revolt started peacefully and genuinely in Syria, and Bashar the butcher did respond by killing protesters. But the war quickly turned into a civil war and stopped being about freedom against a brutal dictator. The foreign-backed rebel forces started retaliating on the Alawites. Yes, Bashar is responsible for starting the mess in the first place, but the foreign interference is the reason for that mess, which not only includes the West but also Russia. Look at Egypt: thanks to the non-interference, only 800 protesters were killed, which is still terrible—it could have been another Syria or Libya.