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WovenGems

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5. Yes indeed

Reply to hobbit709 (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 18, 2013, 07:51 AM

Jun 2013

This is not a revolution. It is sectarian violence at its worst for now Shia nations and Sunni are sending men and materials to the zone. And rather oddly, we are siding with the Sunni who won't let girls go to school. Shia do. Why, Oil. Syria has none but the Saudi are awash in it and they are Sunni. Just like the Taliban and Al Qaida.

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Syria: If People Don't Do Their Own Damn Revolution, It Won't Work [View all] marmar Jun 2013 OP

du rec. xchrom Jun 2013 #1

lotta truth to that. . . . n/t annabanana Jun 2013 #2

If all we're doing is helping one side in a power struggle, then it's a coup, not a revolution. hobbit709 Jun 2013 #3

Yes indeed WovenGems Jun 2013 #5

Its is an invasion not a sectarian war rastaone Jun 2013 #12

Sunni WovenGems Jun 2013 #13

that's an awful piece. cali Jun 2013 #4

Exactly what I was going to point out.. pipoman Jun 2013 #6

Maybe I'm just too nitpicky but this kind of ahistorical stuff drives me nuts cali Jun 2013 #7

Even if a revolution is started from the ground, the elites will step in and rhett o rick Jun 2013 #8

I wonder when Assad suddenly became a dictator? He was an 'ally' when we were driving sabrina 1 Jun 2013 #9

In the face of a reported over 90,000 dead in this outrage, I think that Syria has not reached a marble falls Jun 2013 #10

It has hardly been mentioned watoos Jun 2013 #11

Hartmann's history is wrong on nearly all counts. blackspade Jun 2013 #14