This Modern World: And Away We Go -- - Nothing Says "We Care" Like A Tomahawk Missile Strike

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116. Did George W. Bush cause millions of Syrians to stage nationwide demonstrations

in 2011 against the 40-year rule of the Assad family?

Was the CIA responsible for Assad responding to the nationwide protests with widespread, lethal violence -- turning the political dispute into an armed conflict?

Did Britain cause the Assad government and it's Russian-backed military to lay waste to Homs, Aleppo, and other towns and cities with massive artillery, air, and armored attacks?

Your analysis of the situation ignores a tremendous amount of context for the conflict -- the political, cultural, religious, historic, and economic background in Syria. You ascribe far too much agency to what really amounts to minor-level, clandestine maneuverings by the US and Britain -- and at the same time you deprive the Syrian people on each side of the conflict of having any real agency or influence on their own situation or destiny. The people of Syria are essentially powerless pawns in your view.

You attribute the popular dissatisfaction to the 40-year rule of the Assad family to relatively minor factors having to do with food and energy prices -- and make no mention of the increasingly corrupt, oppressive, and tyrannical nature of Bashar Al-Assad's government -- which are the real reasons for the popular demonstrations.

You even go so far as to absolve responsibility for any and all immoral or criminal acts, whether committed by the government or by the rebels, and claim the the US and their "proxies" are actually "Directly Responsible (sic)" for each and every death that has occured during this conflict.

You're perspective is stringently ideological and unrealistic. This is a pointless discussion.