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What Do You Think Will Be The Outcome in the Syrian Civil War?

What do you think will be the outcome of the Syrian Civil War?

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Overall what do you think will be the outcome of the Syrian Civil War?
 
Overall what do you think will be the outcome of the Syrian Civil War?

In the near to medium term? Bloody stalemate, with advantage to Assad. It is in the interest of all the other main players to project enough force to keep the issue contested, but not enough to win. Shipping some basic anti-armor missiles and trained individuals to the anti-Assad forces could have similar effects, however, to the introduction of anti-aircraft missiles into Afghanistan to be used against their helicopters.
 
It's interesting that all of your choices seem to assume someone wins and that fighting ceases, instead of simply ratcheting up and down in patterns for years and possibly decades.
 
Hard to say.

Iran would do everything in it`s power to not lose that ally.

But so would Saudi Arabia to get rid of Assad.

Mainly, I hope the West stays out. There is nothing to gain there and the sides that are at each others throats are enemies of the West anyway.

We have a saying/proverb here in Germany:

"Let the wolves rip each other appart."
 
Hard to say.

Iran would do everything in it`s power to not lose that ally.

But so would Saudi Arabia to get rid of Assad.

Mainly, I hope the West stays out. There is nothing to gain there and the sides that are at each others throats are enemies of the West anyway.

We have a saying/proverb here in Germany:

"Let the wolves rip each other appart."

So my giant question is - if Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda want to kill each other..... why in the world are we against that, exactly? Once we are able to ensure that WMD stores don't fall into the wrong hands and that IDP's are out of the way, we should be secretly sending aid to whoever is losing at any given moment.
 
So my giant question is - if Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda want to kill each other..... why in the world are we against that, exactly? Once we are able to ensure that WMD stores don't fall into the wrong hands and that IDP's are out of the way, we should be secretly sending aid to whoever is losing at any given moment.

Because it is not just Al Quaida and Hezbollah. In the North, Kurdish seperatists have declared autonomy and have ever since been under attacked from both the FSA, Al Quaida and Assad. Last week the FSA started fighting ISIS and Al Quaida because they were causing havoc in ereas that they controled.

Other than that this has the potential of spilling over into Lebanon and nobody wants the brutal 1980s civil war to repeat itself there.
 
Because it is not just Al Quaida and Hezbollah. In the North, Kurdish seperatists have declared autonomy and have ever since been under attacked from both the FSA, Al Quaida and Assad. Last week the FSA started fighting ISIS and Al Quaida because they were causing havoc in ereas that they controled.

Other than that this has the potential of spilling over into Lebanon and nobody wants the brutal 1980s civil war to repeat itself there.

:shrug: I think this will be good for both the Kurds and the Turks long term, actually - it gives them common cause to cement their new agreement, and Turkey a reason to support the de facto autonomy of Kurds in the Kurdish regions that they want to control anyway. The region has historically been split between the forces of Istanbul and Persia -the Kurds will simply become a buffer for Turkey against Iran, allowing it to focus effort north and east against Russia.

Other than that, if the Islamic State in Iraq wants to go to war with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, and Zarqawi increasingly loses the ability to control those who claim to be acting in his name :shrug: again, I'm fine with all of these actors continuing to just murder the crap out of each other.

Lebanon is a worry - especially given that in a worst case scenario for the regime, that is certainly where the Alawites would retreat.
 
A mess.

Eventually, their will be a truce, Assad will flee and the country will VERY slowly heal.
 
So my giant question is - if Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda want to kill each other..... why in the world are we against that, exactly?
Once we are able to ensure that WMD stores don't fall into the wrong hands and that IDP's are out of the way, we should be secretly sending aid to whoever is losing at any given moment.




Again I agree with cpwill.

I have made similar comments several times in the past on this subject.

Since neither side will ever be a really good friend of the West, it really doesn't matter who 'wins'. Let them destroy each other. That would be a good thing.
 
Because it is not just Al Quaida and Hezbollah. In the North, Kurdish seperatists have declared autonomy and have ever since been under attacked from both the FSA, Al Quaida and Assad. Last week the FSA started fighting ISIS and Al Quaida because they were causing havoc in ereas that they controled.

Other than that this has the potential of spilling over into Lebanon and nobody wants the brutal 1980s civil war to repeat itself there.

Unbelievable, it's nothing but a cesspool.
 
Unbelievable, it's nothing but a cesspo
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100% correct.

I actually believe that it's a worse mess than Afghanistan (Where there are also a lot of different groups involved.)

I really don't believe that any outside group or nation will gain anything in Syria but it needs to be brought to some kind of conclusion for the poor people who are suffering there. That is the only thing that the USA should be trying to do there.

There will be no winners in this war.
 
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No matter how long it would take Assad will eventually fall.
A leader cannot prevail against his own people.
It would take time however, considering the massive assistance the Assad forces are getting from their friends in Iran and Lebanon.
 
I voted "Other" as I feel there will be no winner in the near future.
If there had been an option for " continued violence with no end in sight", that would have been my selection.
 
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