The bloody sectarian war continues unabated in Syria. Tens of thousands have been killed and wounded and many more tens of thousands have been displaced forming huge refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey. Towns and villages are targeted because of them being Sunna or Shia and the neighboring countries are drawn in with Iran, and the Shia majority Iraq, Hizballah in Lebanon supporting the Assad regime and Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Sunnis supporting the "rebels".
Who are these "rebels"? Some of them form the Syria Free Army and others represent foreign fighters who are connected to Al Qaeda, and other Islamist groups. Why are thery there? Some want to get rid of the Assad regime, while the others want to establish a Islamic/ Sharia state and still others want to use it as a base to attack the West. What about the West? As usual they have misread the situation and are about to create another cesspool of violence that has overtaken Iraq and Libya? Some wanted to weaken Syria and to make it less of a threat to Israel and less of a sponsor of Hizballah, and of course there is the connection to Iran. The greatest harm the West can do to the region and itself is to arm the "rebels". Hopefully, they are not too dumb or blinded by "interests", theirs or Israel to forget the lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, where they have made a bad situation worse and bequeathed misery, anguish and bloodshed for years. They have turned stable, albeit tyrannical systems into a charnel house, with one religious group slaughtering another even though they profess to believe in the same God.
Who are these "rebels"? Some of them form the Syria Free Army and others represent foreign fighters who are connected to Al Qaeda, and other Islamist groups. Why are thery there? Some want to get rid of the Assad regime, while the others want to establish a Islamic/ Sharia state and still others want to use it as a base to attack the West. What about the West? As usual they have misread the situation and are about to create another cesspool of violence that has overtaken Iraq and Libya? Some wanted to weaken Syria and to make it less of a threat to Israel and less of a sponsor of Hizballah, and of course there is the connection to Iran. The greatest harm the West can do to the region and itself is to arm the "rebels". Hopefully, they are not too dumb or blinded by "interests", theirs or Israel to forget the lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, where they have made a bad situation worse and bequeathed misery, anguish and bloodshed for years. They have turned stable, albeit tyrannical systems into a charnel house, with one religious group slaughtering another even though they profess to believe in the same God.
