Hello from Syrian Girl

The problem is that while Assad's regime has been superficially secular, it's also terrifyingly authoritarian.

From the UN's perspective he's violated the UN Charter's responsibility to protect, and thus they have a mandate for intervention. Personally I think my country should keep to its own affairs and not interfere in the internal politics of other nations. I'm a non-interventionist.


The Syrian people would be wise to depose Assad and either get rid of the oppressive state altogether, or replace its leaders with ones who respect the liberties of all people.

 

Reading comprehension goes a long way here. She said it was cleaner. You can assume that was before the whole civil war started.

The ME has some of the most beautiful places and structures in the world.

You got defensive for absolutely no reason.

http://www.travelandleisure.com/#americas-dirtiest-cities/2

 

Take California as an example. It's my home.

Less than half of the people here are in the middle class. Combined, most people here are dirt poor on a third world level or they are well to do. That's the real problem facing Blue States.

The coast of Northern California is the sweetest place on earth. It has a really well educated and older white demographic combined with a young poor brown demographic. That's the same way Columbia and Bolivia are.

 

Why would the Lebanese Shiites of Hezbollah fight for Syria? It's not their country? Besides, Alawites are heretics from Shiism. In the Syrian context Hezbollah plays the same exact role played by the German Hessians during the American Revolutionary War. They are interlopers.

 

We know how life was like under Assad. I know he is a dictator and can be brutal. The alternative to Assad is much worse than anyone can imagine. Syria will turn into Somalia or Afghanistan. If the SAA win the war, I do not believe that they will start committing genocide. Many of my Sunni relatives still are living there, and they feel safe if they are in an area controlled by the SAA. There are no abuses going on, but they are terrified of what will happen if the wahhabi / salafists take over. It will be officially a return to the 12th century. That is unacceptable!

 

Blue States are like Latin America with wealthy white elites and poor uneducated Brown drones. Shame on you for this colonialism.

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NYC is a piece of (*)(*)(*)(*). The people who live there might as well be from Mars.

 

No it's not. The US is freely available for the use and abuse of everyone on earth. Didn't you get the memo?

 

Hezbollah are the strongest group in Lebanon. Lebanon still has 40% Christian population, and 30% Sunni. Yes they fought a war amongst each other, but Hezbollah doesn't terrorize Sunnis or Christians in Lebanon.

Read this article.

In Hezbollah stronghold, Lebanese Christians find respect, stability.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/1221/In-Hezbollah-stronghold-Lebanese-Christians-find-respect-stability

Like I said before, compared to the wahhabis / salafists / saudis , the Hezbollah members are about as dangerous as sesame street characters.

 

NYC is not on par with San Francisco. SF encompasses some of the most beautiful terrain and water on earth. It has a younger and better educated population than NYC. Much of NYC's population is dependent.

 

What kind of government do you want in Syria? The kind that is in Sweden or Norway?. Syria is not that type of country. You want democracy, freedom to vote and assemble? What if I was to tell you that in Syria freedom to vote would mean a much worse dictatorship than Assad. At best, Muslim Brotherhood would come to power and in worse case, the wahhabi / salafists would come to power. What will you say then? What will you say when all the minorities are driven out, museums are closed down, tourism is banned, women are abused and made to wear the burqah? Will you be satisfied with that kind of Syria? I bet you wont even care and move to complain about some other "terrifying dictator".

How did the Arab Spring turn out in Egypt? Their economy is collapsing, minorities are being persecuted, women are being abused, and tourism is almost non-existent. Now tell me how well is Libya doing without the "evil Gaddafi". Country is ruined, no stable government, al-qaeda salafists are in control of Benghazi, different terrorist groups controlling small parts of Libya and enforcing Sharia law. How did that turn out for the U.S. and it's ambassador in Benghazi?

The best case scenario for Egypt, Syria, Libya = secular dictatorship that will hold the radicals at a distance and guarantee the rights of women and minorities.

 

The difference between the revolutions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria is that in Egypt there was no civil war, no foreign back militias, no foreign intervention (except in favour of Mubarak).

But Morsi has proven to be as much a puppet as Mubarak was.

In Libya and Syria, there was no peaceful revolutions and the colonial powers got involved. Why is that? Well Libya has a lot of oil and Ghaddafi had big plans for Africa, or so I've heard, which undermine the IMF's status quo of the world's economy.

Therefore, he had to go.


With Assad, well he is the special link between Iran and Hezbollah, as well as stability in the area. If they attack Iran for its nuclear program, 'Israel' stands little chance of making it out in one peace. So removing Assad is like hitting two birds with one stone.

Therefore, he has to go.


The West had nothing to gain from losing Mubarak, and Morsi talked the talked but then sold himself out for US aid. Why? Because the oil rich gulf states are absolutely disgraceful and the only time they give any Arab country aid is after the country agrees to do what it wants (see Hamas and Qatar).



It really is too bad our choices for politicians is always "the lesser of two evils"....

 

I agreed with you.

In fact most sunnis endorsed and supported Hizbullah when they were jsut taking care of Lebanon and fighting Israel.

 

So you see Somalia, Afghanistan, and places where they have controlled (could add Mali), and so you find it more or less assuming it would be same. And you would take a dictator over that type of mess anyday? Well I would to. lol

 

The Arab-Israeli Conflict, as a whole, has been at perpetual war that began in the battle of Tel Hai in 1920 before the creation of Israel in 1948. Syria has been at perpetual war with Israel since the Six Day war in 1967 involving the control of the Golan Heights region.

 

You are clearly a troll. Go away and take your hate to another thread. And to the rest of the group reading this guy's silly drivel; NYC is wonderful, has some of the greatest colleges (Columbia, Einstein School of Medicine, etc), is home to Wall Street, the Garment District, the Diamond District, the best cancer center in the world (Sloane Kettering), and a host of other districts with ungodly wealth. It also hold the largest amount of gold anywhere on the planet.

I am shocked with your small thought processes that you even found the internet.

 

We should be welcoming the young lady to the forum and not bickering...that's not aimed specifically at you by the way...but the way these threads devolve sometimes.

Besides, just 2% to 5% of the gold stored at the Federal Reserve in Manhattan is owned by the U.S. government, . The rest is owned by foreign countries. It's basically just a holding facility, it doesn't mean the city of New York owns it, or the citizens thereof.

 

None of it is owned by Uncle Sam. That gold is in Fort Knox. And the countries don't own the gold - the Federal Reserve does. That company (which is beholden to Congress, BTW) holds the cash in lieu of printing money. US Currency is king in almost all of the countries on this planet. But either way - it's there and not in Brussells or Paris because the wealthiest people on earth believe NYC is the greatest city in the world. Every citizen in the third world wants to come here, and all the politicians of the world want to come here to discuss ideas and grievances for sake of humanity. If NYC wasn't so great, the United Nations would be in Kansas City or Rejavik. This other clown that said NYC is a cesspool is just a short-bus troll. His opinion couldn't sway a cockroach, as anyone who has ever seen the hustle and bustle of NYC knows well.

 

What? You mean peaceful islam doesn't create wonderful constitutions and make life great for it's inhabitants? You don't have the freedoms in these sharia law muslim countries that we have in this godless evil Western Civilization? Who would have known?!?!?! I thought cutting off heads in places like Riyadh was a form of circus entertainment, like how we have Barnum and Bailey doing elephant tricks in USA.

If you are here in NY to make a better life and because you believe that these oppressive sharia law countries are a blight on the human race, then welcome to our fair state. If you are here to help build bombs to kill marathon runners or fly planes into our skyscrapers, then you can just (*)(*)(*)(*) right now. We don't need muslim laws here in USA. We didn't want them when our USMC smacked Tripoli into the dirt in the 1700's and we damn sure don't want those oppressive laws and sick jihad lunatics in our country now.

 

San Francisco and the Pacific NW is a beautiful area, however the natural beauty seems to attract the "hippie" crowd. it's very, very left leaning in those areas, and San Francisco in particular is the mecca for the homosexual community. Now having said that, there's nothing wrong with that on it's face value... but the politics and sheer expense of San Francisco makes it one of those places which is nice to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. I have never lived in New York city, so I can't speak from experience in that regard. I did live in Portland, Oregon for a time and regularly flew into the Oakland/Bay area...and I was usually just as eager to fly back out given the prices...but in terms of natural beauty and a constant Fall like temperature, year round....it's difficult to find a better place.

Welcome to Syria girl1982, by the way..sorry for getting so far off-track.

 

Syria is run by racist lunatics hell bent on causing the end of the human race. You merely have to look at how they treat their own people to get a taste of how they want to treat everyone else. In a way it's a shame that Israel is so tolerant. I sometimes get so emotional about what these muslim lunatics keep doing to USA and Israel that I think Israel should melt Iran and Syria for the sake of the human race. And its not like she doesn't have three hundred or four hundred nukes ready to rock and roll.

 

I don't think you are going to be at Political Forum for very long. I'll look for you on the battlefield.

 

I was pointing out that her country has been in a state of perpetual war with Israel...
Israel bombed Syria's attempt at building a nuclear reactor capable of enriching Uranium...back in 2007.
Regardless of what regime is in place, I expect the conflict to continue.

 

Do you understand what racism means? How can Syria be run by racists? All Syrians are of the same race. You don't even know what the hell you are blabbering about.

 

lol, I can see this train beginning to run off the rails.

 

As I recall the Israeli/Syrian border has been peaceful for more than 30 years.