And next, Syria?

[camouflage]

Actually I caught that and decided to link the clip here, wild-eyed pamphleteer style.

 

[camouflage]

That's not many compared to the Syrian military estimated to be over 700,000.

Also interesting is how heavily Alawite it is, especially the leadership & career soldiers. This is a war between a ruling minority & a majority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Armed_Forces

TomUS is basically appalled and outraged that Syria has a national army.

 

[DotCommunist]

he has the demeanor of a man who cheats at Risk tbf

 

[Casually Red]

more chaos among the rebels . A top dog commander in the FSA was invited to a meeting with the AQ commanders to plan an offensive . Turned out to be a rather short meeting as they shot him instead. And also announced they intend to kill plenty more FSA leaders as well .
No word yet if they ate him afterwards, but as its Ramadan they might have gave it a miss.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Syrian refugee crisis is the worst since Rwanda says the UN.

The conflict in Syria has caused the world's worst refugee crisis for 20 years, with an average of 6,000 people fleeing every day in 2013, the UN says.
UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres said refugee numbers had not risen "at such a frightening rate" since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23332527

 

[camouflage]

Syrian refugee crisis is the worst since Rwanda says the UN.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23332527

Easily fixed by sending more guns an ensure the war is more properly balanced. Its not fair if the Syrian government is able to beat the foreign sponsored rabbles.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Easily fixed by sending more guns an ensure the war is more properly balanced. Its not fair if the Syrian government is able to beat the foreign sponsored rabbles.

The response of a cretin.

 

[elbows]

Turkey has returned fire after several instances of stray bullets from Syria entering Turkey. In both cases it sounds like the bullets came from fighting between Kurds and rebels:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-321...fire-after-syrian-stray-bullets-kill-two.html

 

[camouflage]

The response of a cretin.

Indeed the argument of cretins.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Indeed the argument of cretins.

On both sides.

 

[Crispy]

The response of a cretin.

Adjust your sarcasm filter

 

[goldenecitrone]

Adjust your sarcasm filter

Why? Camouflage understood fine.

 

[Casually Red]

The pakistani Taliban are now admitting hundreds of their maniacs are active in Syria in the battle for democracy.

Meanwhile brother Erdogan is in a bit of a fishizzle after a number of anonymous intelligence reports indicated the blasts at a Syrian naval depot in Latakia some weeks ago were caused by an Israeli air attack that evaded syrian radar by taking off directly from a Turkish air base . Furious denials from Erdogan but then again he would, wouldnt he ?

So that makes it the Muslim brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Nato, US state department , British intelligence, CIA, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Taliban all battling for democracy in Syria. Hey ho, the gang is well and truly all here.

 

[TomUS]

Syrian refugee crisis is the worst since Rwanda says the UN.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23332527

And the responsibility for this lies with one man....Assad, who is willing to sacrifice endless numbers of his own people to stay in power. Oh, but most of those being sacrificed aren't his people. His people are the Alawites.

 

[Casually Red]

And the responsibility for this lies with one man....Assad, who is willing to sacrifice endless numbers of his own people to stay in power. Oh, but most of those being sacrificed aren't his people. His people are the Alawites.

hes stepping down next year you bollix

and his people are the ones who are fighting to stop syria becoming a medeival caliphate shithole run by Al Qaeda, the syrian people . Most of whom are sunni, quite a few of them christian .

jesus your such a fucking wanker .

 

[classicdish]

The pakistani Taliban are now admitting hundreds of their maniacs are active in Syria in the battle for democracy.

No they're not

 

[Casually Red]

No they're not

some of them are, and theyve made a video in syria to prove it

 

[classicdish]

some of them are, and theyve made a video in syria to prove it

I'll just post this link and let people make up their own minds http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jul-16/223885-pakistan-taliban-say-no-shift-to-syria.ashx#ixzz2ZLlYCXcT

 

[Casually Red]

alternatively theres these links

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/14/us-pakistan-syria-taliban-idUSBRE96D02V20130714

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23285245

The commander of the Pakistan Taliban, Abdul Rashid Abbasi, has told CNN that the first batch of fighters has arrived in Syria and established a command and control center to launch operational activities alongside Syrian rebel fighters. Abbasi, a close associate of Pakistan Taliban head Hakeemullah Mehsud, told CNN that 120 fighters are already in Syria.
The Taliban commander went on to say that another batch of fighters made up of 150 men will arrive in Syria this week.
"We shall be sending more volunteers, but cannot give exact numbers at this moment, but we will provide whatever support is needed by our Syrian brothers," Abbasi told CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/15/world/taliban-joining-syrian-fighters

 

[TomUS]

hes stepping down next year you bollix
.

You really believe that?

 

[camouflage]

You really believe that?

Not stepping down, running in elections. If your yet-another-warmongering regime gave a fuck about peace the focus here would be about making sure those election happen and are above board, and that Assad does what he says he'll do which is abide by their results. Bollocks to that, Syria is sovereign, independent foreign policy, debt free of the IMF, major strategic pipeline in the planning and about to exploit loads of gas off the coast... so basket-case the fucker and feed the bits to your dogs.

 

[TomUS]

Not stepping down, running in elections.

Dictators "win elections" all the time....at the point of a gun.

 

[DotCommunist]

like that time bush jnr won his second term

 

[TomUS]

like that time bush jnr won his second term

And more blatantly, like that time he "won" his first term.

 

[camouflage]

Dictators "win elections" all the time....at the point of a gun.

That's your reply to what I said, about holding Assad to his word up in front of everyone, the Syrian people, the UN in a legitimate political process... all that, your reply is some sort of line from a cartoon probably involving giant robots...

Fucks-ache.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'll bet a whole 50p that TomUSapologist thinks chavez was an evil dictator voted in by LOL tammany hall practises

 

[Tom A]

Dictators "win elections" all the time....at the point of a gun.

For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_parliamentary_election,_2009

Voting is supposed to be a secret process, but with the current method of casting ballots it becomes obvious who opposes candidates. The voter has the option of going to a booth to cross out the name or dropping the ballot directly in the box.[12] Penalties for voting against a candidate or not voting are severe. Electors who refused to vote were sent to Labor camps.[13] A member of the National Security Agency is stationed at every polling station to keep an eye out for people who use or look at the red pen.[14]

 

[DotCommunist]

you wiki genius

 

[Casually Red]

fucking wanker..hes a dictator who has to step down ..hes running in elections next year...north korea !!

bear in mind too some of the feudal states backing the jihadis dont even have constitutions much less elections

 

[Ibn Khaldoun]

Uruknet article on the SNC problems:

Syrians have been patient with the political
opposition for over two years now. But their
patience has ended. The voices inside the
country have been drowned out between a
trickle of oil money and empty promises of arms
on one hand, and the bombs and bullets of the
Syrian army on the other. And people wonder
why billions of dollars are pledged to Egypt after
the overthrow of a government while Syrians
fighting a ruthless tyrant are left to beg for
crumbs of aid?

Bullets and empty promises push Syrians to the
brink

The situation in Syria is abject. The conflict began to represent regional strifes a long time ago already.

It seems like the best-case is a negotiated settlement paving for political transition.