Syria & Middle East News Catch-all | Lebanon Finally Elects a PM

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Bodies showing torture signs found at hospital, Syria rebels say

Pictures showed bodies wrapped in blood-stained shrouds piled up inside a morturary at Harasta Hospital near Damascus.
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“… The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, says almost 60,000 people were tortured and killed in the Assad government's prisons.

Human rights groups say more than 100,000 people have disappeared since Assad ordered a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011 that triggered the civil war. …”


For reference, the Syrian population is currently over 25 million. That means about 0.004% of the population was “disappeared” by the Assad regime (and this population growth chart from Worldometer tells the story of the civil war generally —

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Regardless of what government eventually comes out of Syria, they aren't going to have an Air Force or a Navy.
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Syrian MiG-29 fleet destroyed in Israeli air raids

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has reportedly destroyed the entire fleet of operational MiG-29 fighter jets belonging to the Syrian Arab Air Force during recent airstrikes on Syrian air bases. The strikes targeted the Khalkhalah Air Base in the Suwayda Governorate, as well as other critical...
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Hard to be optimistic about Syria’s future given the history of the region. Much more likely to evolve into a Taliban type state than a liberal democracy.

We’re all still waiting for the Middle East’s Thomas Jefferson.
 
Zoo_View said:
Unfortunately, it’ll likely be similar to Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iran (1979 to now), Cambodia (Khmer Rouge)……the “rebels” take power and install drastic measures.
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WSJ analyst said that the incoming leadership is committed to creating a "Syria for everyone", "protecting minority groups" among other niiiiiice things.

The odds of that seem incredibly slim.

If I'm a Christian in Syria, which is apparently about 10% of the population, I am getting the hell out of there as quickly as possible.
 
ZenMode said:
WSJ analyst said that the incoming leadership is committed to creating a "Syria for everyone", "protecting minority groups" among other niiiiiice things.

The odds of that seem incredibly slim.

If I'm a Christian in Syria, which is apparently about 10% of the population, I am getting the hell out of there as quickly as possible.
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Most already got out. The 10% is a pre-war figure. It's closer to 2% now.
 
Enigma94 said:
Super can be a bit verbose and self important but this criticism is rich coming from the most obtuse poster on this board.
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Everyone has their unique personality, which is going to come out in their forum posts. Who cares, right? Nothing here is life or death or even worth getting worked up about.
 
ZenMode said:
Everyone has their unique personality, which is going to come out in their forum posts. Who cares, right? Nothing here is life or death or even worth getting worked up about.
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True.

I do wish the amateur shit stirrers would step up their game. If we have to put up with it, do it better. Hints and allegations are so last year.
 
ZenMode said:
Everyone has their unique personality, which is going to come out in their forum posts. Who cares, right? Nothing here is life or death or even worth getting worked up about.
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Who's worked up? Sounds like you are trying to convince yourself.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Do you really think a super important guy like that would take the time to write some long meandering post with multiple bullets explaining his confusing position? He's too busy writing fiction about armed MAGA rednecks shutting down schools, bragging about having sex with his wife and looking for a new job at a top 75 law school in the Midwest. I actually read he had left the board and was never coming back. I just hope he reconsiders and comes back to grace us with his long winded superior intellect on every subject one can imagine.
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He isn't looking for a job. Nobody, could spend as much time posting on a message board and be productively working (morally working) or looking for a job. His job is the zzl.
 
For all of their huge and lasting implications on world affairs, ongoing developments in Syria are receiving surprisingly sparse news coverage on MSM outlets.
 
mynameisbond said:
For all of their huge and lasting implications on world affairs, ongoing developments in Syria are receiving surprisingly sparse news coverage on MSM outlets.
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Agreed — I mean, it is not NO coverage but surprisingly little. (And even worse for ongoing events in Georgia and Romania.)
 
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