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rastaone

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6. Not going to say am surprised

Reply to newmember (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 10:39 PM

Jun 2013

But the article is not trying to claim Syria is an idyllic democratic state. Its just trying to say that outsiders set fire to a not so perfect house and instead of trying to help put it out, they are doing everything in their power to keep it going and tries to get the reader to imagine what if would look like if someone else did it to us.

I think it is quite a good article especially for western readers to imagine for the first time what it would feel for someone else to plunge their not so perfect countries into mayhem and destruction

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PETER HITCHENS: We set Syria ablaze... Now we're hurling in explosives [View all] rastaone Jun 2013 OP

Not a good analogy newmember Jun 2013 #1

Nitpicker Ey? rastaone Jun 2013 #2

Man , I don't think we should be involved at all in this mess.... newmember Jun 2013 #3

Not going to say am surprised rastaone Jun 2013 #6

My opinion Bashar Hafez al-Assad thought that the U.S and president Obama newmember Jun 2013 #9

You're right rastaone Jun 2013 #13

so does the us government. so has every government. HiPointDem Jun 2013 #4

Switzerland newmember Jun 2013 #5

don't kid yourself HiPointDem Jun 2013 #7

you are destroying my dream newmember Jun 2013 #10

it needs to die HiPointDem Jun 2013 #11

bullshit on the "*made* women 2nd class citizens". HiPointDem Jun 2013 #12

Not bullshit newmember Jun 2013 #14

using 'made' implies they were something other than second-class before the current regime HiPointDem Jun 2013 #15

Same thing made , kept , because Assad had the power to change it but decided not to newmember Jun 2013 #16

the fact is, it is *not* the same; assad has liberalized. HiPointDem Jun 2013 #17

Women are still considered 2nd class and not equal to men in Syria under Assad newmember Jun 2013 #18

he didn't 'make' them 2nd-class. & that has meaning only through a first-world lens. HiPointDem Jun 2013 #19

It is sort of a rerun of the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88 FarCenter Jun 2013 #8