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Who Do You Support in the Syrian Civil War?

Who do you support in the Syrian Civil War?

  • Bashar Al-Assad and the Syrian gov

    Votes: 9 40.9%

  • Free Syrian Army

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • Islamic Front

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • al-Qaeda Network

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other (explain)

    Votes: 11 50.0%
  • Total voters
    22
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Who do you support in the Syrian Civil War?

Bashar Al-Assad and the Syrian Gov
Free Syrian Army
Islamic Front
al-Qaeda Network (im sure none of you do...hopefully)
Other (explain)
 
Anyone who supports the rebels supports Al-Qaeda.
 
Free Syrian Army have been Decimated by al Qaeda which the Islamic front in reality is a part of are at the very least work with.

In reality the choice comes down to either the Syrian government or al Qaeda, and the Syrian people choose the government over al Qaeda as there are millions of Christian and Shia Syrians who al Qaeda does not like.
 
Who was the side we were going to go to war with back when Syria mattered so much we were...you know...going to war?
 
As much as i hate to say this i see no way for the "FSA" to win. I see no way of them winning. I support the protests full heatedly in the beginning of the Arab Spring and i supported much of their democratic and secular demands, i also supported much of the FSA in the beginning of the conflict as well. But once the war broke out and the revolution turned into more of a secular conflict and the FSA started to align itself with jihadist and Islamic elements i can no longer back them. Also once the FSA started to loose out to the Islamic front and Al Nursa and the rebels starting fighting each other the only people i can back is Assad. He is 1.)secular and 2.)can promise stablility and 3.)if the "rebels" when we can only look to this conflict dragging on with interebel factions fighting each other. 4.)the rebels are now being used as a proxy against Syria,
These are the reasons why i voted the way i did
 
Nobody. Whoever wins there, heads will roll.

The FSA never really existed, or so I think... they got hijacked by islamists very early on.
Assad is, at the very least, a secular dictator (well, I say secular but he is pro-alawites and gave alawites some more rights than others but at least he didn't enforce religious law, but secular law.). And props to him, the economy is Syria did grow during his time, you know, until the war. But if he wins... heads will roll. I have no doubt he has no legitimacy left since he did do crimes against humanity. Not the whole bio weapons thing, that was a joke, but there were surely massacres and executions... he needs to go.
The islamists... you can't possibly side with them, they're like... bad.

So nobody is good there.
 
Assad by default. there aren't any other choices.
 
None, that country is just going to sink deeper in disorder and violence.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Who do you support in the Syrian Civil War?

Bashar Al-Assad and the Syrian Gov
Free Syrian Army
Islamic Front
al-Qaeda Network (im sure none of you do...hopefully)
Other (explain)
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Other. I could care less who wins and we should stay out of it.
 
Does anyone know why Russia doesn't want the Assad Regime to lose control over the pipeline?
 
grip said:
Does anyone know why Russia doesn't want the Assad Regime to lose control over the pipeline?
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"Deep beneath "Damascus volcano" and "the battle of Aleppo", the tectonic plates of the global energy chessboard keep on rumbling. Beyond the tragedy and grief of civil war, Syria is also a Pipelineistan power play.

More than a year ago, a $10 billion Pipelineistan deal was clinched between Iran, Iraq and Syria for a natural gas pipeline to be built by 2016 from Iran's giant South Pars field, traversing Iraq and Syria, with a possible extension to Lebanon. Key export target market: Europe.

During the past 12 months, with Syria plunged into civil war, there was no pipeline talk. Up until now. The European Union's supreme paranoia is to become a hostage of Russia's Gazprom. The Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline would be essential to diversify Europe's energy supplies away from Russia.

It gets more complicated. Turkey happens to be Gazprom's second-largest customer. The whole Turkish energy security architecture depends on gas from Russia - and Iran. Turkey dreams of becoming the new China, configuring Anatolia as the ultimate Pipelineistan strategic crossroads for the export of Russian, Caspian-Central Asian, Iraqi and Iranian oil and gas to Europe.

Try to bypass Ankara in this game, and you're in trouble. Until virtually yesterday, Ankara was advising Damascus to reform - and fast. Turkey did not want chaos in Syria. Now Turkey is feeding chaos in Syria."
 
I'm not sure I support any one organization because I haven't done nearly enough research to form an opinion. In that part of the world, violence and irrationality have a hold over the society so it's hard for me to support anything except individual humans who don't want to use violence to impose their will on others.
 
I'll support the Children, the Christians and other minority religions, and the women that want no part of the fighting and are not involved. Their decision on who they prefer to go with.

That should cut out most of the outside players.....which means the Saud's plans get ruined and they will need to find another way.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Who do you support in the Syrian Civil War?

Bashar Al-Assad and the Syrian Gov
Free Syrian Army
Islamic Front
al-Qaeda Network (im sure none of you do...hopefully)
Other (explain)
Click to expand...

The way I see it, Assad has done a remarkable job stabilizing Syria with long term continuing intervention by the Mossad, CIA, Saudi Arabia, France and who knows who else. This is not new. He helped the USA by providing refuge for 20% of the Iraqi population during our War of Terror against Iraq. He has moderated Hesbollah, kept the peace (not easy, take a good look at Iraq), stabilized Lebanon, kept the big OIL sharks at bay and who knows what else. He gives all appearances of being a great and moderate leader in an area of the World that needs just that. We should be supporting him wholeheartedly.
 
I support US Media outlets that properly ignore Syria and stop making it some kind of foster child in need.
 
The innocent civilians...no one else.
 
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