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Updated at 8:45 a.m. ET: Syrian troops on Friday shelled a rebel-held neighborhood in the flashpoint central city of Homs as President Bashar Assad's troops appeared to be readying to storm the area that has been out of government control for months, activists told The Associated Press.
The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees had no immediate word on casualties from the shelling of Hom's Khaldiyeh neighborhood. Amateur videos posted online showed a small white plane, apparently a drone, flying over Homs.
Homs has been one of the hardest hit regions in Syria since the uprising against Assad's regime began in March last year. The U.N. said several weeks ago that more than 9,000 people have been killed since the crisis began while activists put the number of dead at about 13,000.
Also on Friday, the BBC reported that UN monitors had reached a village in nearby Hama province where about 80 people, including women and children, were shot or stabbed. U.N. observers came under fire Thursday as they tried to reach the site in Mazraat al-Qubair, a small farming community of 160 people, mostly Bedouins.
Rebel fighter: Syria army firing on more villages after 'massacre'
Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded in a suburb of Damascus on Friday, killing at least two security force personnel, activists told Reuters.
Rebels in Syria say Assad's forces had slaughtered at least 78 people, including women and children, but Assad's people say it was the rebels and the numbers were far fewer. ITN's Paul Davies reports. Warning: Some pictures in this report are disturbing.
The Syrian Observatory for Human rights said the blast in the suburb of Qudsiya targeted a bus transporting members of Syrian security forces, and was followed by heavy gunfire.
'Extremely tense'
In Geneva, International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman Hicham Hassan told reporters Friday that the humanitarian situation in Syria was worsening.
"Currently the situation is extremely tense, not only in Houla, not only in Hama, but in many, many places around the country," he said. More than 100 people were massacred last month in Houla; the opposition and the regime blamed each other.
Syrian activists say 100 people were killed by government supporters Wednesday in the province of Hama, including many women and children. Meanwhile, diplomatic efforts to quell the crisis continue to stall. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
Hassan the the areas targeted in the latest attacks were the countryside of the northern city of Idlib, suburbs of the capital Damascus, the eastern province of Deir el-Zour and the coastal region of Latakia.
UN: Monitors shot at trying to reach Syria 'massacre' village
The ICRC wants to help 1.5 million people, some of whom need basic assistance such as bread. Hassan said many are also worried about people they have left behind adding that most of the people who fled from Taldaw, a village in the Houla region, were women and children.
"They don't know what happened to the people who remained," he said.
Also Friday, the opposition called for anti-government protests after the weekly noon prayers.
It was still not clear if observers have entered Mazraat al-Qubair, where activists said dozens of people, including women and children, were killed on Wednesday. A team that tried to reach the area on Thursday was shot at.
NYT: US envoy fears Syria conflict will develop into regional sectarian war
Activists said the Sunni village is surrounded by Alawite villages. Alawites are an offshoot of Shiite Islam and Assad is a member of the sect, while the opposition is dominated by Sunnis.
A government statement Thursday on the state-run news agency SANA said "an armed terrorist group committed an appalling crime" in Mazraat al-Qubair, killing nine women and children. It said residents appealed for protection from Hama authorities, who sent security forces who went to the farm, stormed a hideout of the group and clashed with its fighters.
'Doubled down on his brutality'
As reports emerged about the Mazraat al-Qubair -- which would be the fourth such mass slaying of civilians in Syria in the last two weeks -- the United States condemned Assad, saying he has "doubled down on his brutality and duplicity."
U.N. patrols in Syria have on several instances been deliberately targeted with heavy weapons, armor-piercing ammunition and a surveillance drone, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council, according to a senior U.N. official. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because Thursday's council meeting was private, said Ban also reported repeated incidents of firing close to U.N. patrols, apparently to get them to withdraw.
11-year-old boy says he survived Syria massacre
International envoy Kofi Annan, whose peace plan brokered in April has not been implemented, warned against allowing "mass killings to become part of everyday reality in Syria."
"If things do not change, the future is likely to be one of brutal repression, massacres, sectarian violence, and even all-out civil war," Annan told the U.N. General Assembly in New York. "All Syrians will lose."
U.N. diplomats said Annan was proposing that world powers and key regional players, including Iran, come up with a new strategy to end the 15-month conflict at a closed meeting of the Security Council that took place Thursday.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Time for the other Arab nations to step up and stop the madness that is going on. It's an Arab problem, not a Western problem, so let the Arabs handle it. If they don't want to, well sorry, the killing can continue, be less terrorists to fight in the future. And if the US goes in there, we will lose more soldiers. Plus we don't have the money for more wars.
If any of the YELLOW ELEPHANTS want to complain about us not going in there, hey, tell us how it's going to be paid for first.
SallyAnn
I am with you on this one . Only difference is , I would Not Send in any American Troops period . The Russians and China have taken a hands off position . They know the place is snake pit from which there is no way out , once you are in it . Best we do the same .
bob
Shiites vs Sunnis are their problem.
Let them kill each other to their heart's content.
Sunni Saudis, oil companies and their lobbyists try to get their dirty jobs done through the US and allies.
Some times Israel also joins the games and then vanishes.
The current dances and dramas including UN and its agencies, human rights groups were done before Iraqi wars.
When it comes to hating the US, West and Israel, both Shiites and Sunnis join hands! Take a poll all over the world.
Just keep away for a change.
This is no "Tea Party!" ... There isn't a Arab nation in the region with enough "Balls" or brawn to handle this! If your not familiar with the region and the sectarian interest, there is no way to understand or make a judgement. The interest of the United States would be best served by staying out of the conflict .. for multiple reasons.
Yay, because you all approve of killing children!
Look, I am not for sending troops in. But all I have to say is all this pure BS bravado is someone's stack of s**t they like to type from the safety of their keyboard. Because if it was you who was getting sniped at, you'd suddenly shut the hell up and wonder why people allowed it to happen. In other words, you lie if you think you aren't a Syrian in the matter of protecting yourself and your children.
Tragedy, and no easy answer, doesn't excuse you to be a flippant a*Sh*le. What is f*cked up is we have Russia, who gives it a green light, China (who we owe money to and won't stop buying stuff from) giving it a green light, and our Middle Eastern allies (who we have the right to buy gasoline from, goddamnit!), giving it a green light.
Now, just to add my fair share of hyperbole, and not to bead a dead horse, but if you had to fill your car with blood from yourself and your kid, you'd probably ride a bike, right? And no, it isn't like we don't need gas. But we basically pay for cheap ass gas, with the difference paid for in some kids blood. Syria doesn't have oil that we import. But Syria is just like the countries we do import from.
Sounds like I'm some nutjob lefty, right? Actually, nope. I believe in big oil, and the pursuit of their business. What I blame is our bulls**t need to buy stuff for improper prices, so we want gas for $1 a gallon and WalMart toys...even if it means putting our neighbors out of work and having a child's brain split open by sniper rifles. That isn't liberal or conservative. That is stupid.
Moonbeamracer,
pick up you rifle and head on over there. Cash in your retirement fund or 401K to fund it.
Hello folks, when will we discard ourImperialistic mindset? This is just another ploy by the U.S. and the
U.N. to perpetrate the war mongering and demonizing as the U.S. istrying to drum up more support for another war. We’ve caused enoughtrouble around the world. If you can't see that we are the instigators in most of the world's wars and displacement of millionsof people who are fleeing our aggression, than you are not payingattention. If you don’t think we have been in Syria covertly arming
the rebels you are in denial and forgetting about Libya. We need to
stay out of other country’s civil disputes. I hope we aren’t
going to go against the United Nations vote earlier this year and
unilaterally go into Syria under the pretext that we need to stop the
violence like we did in Libya. General Wesley Clark has stated that a
Syria invasion has been pre-planned for quite awhile.
General Wesley Clark: "America will
take out 7 countries in 5 years"
According to Former NATO supreme allied
commander, former presidential candidate and 4 star US General Wesley
Clark that they had received a memo that America is going to take out
7 countries in the Middle East starting with Iraq, Libya, Syria
Lebanon Sudan, Somalia, and finally Iran. It is amazing how these
things that were planned years ago and even though it is taking
longer than originally planned, are being achieved in front of our
eyes.
Why is it other countries feel like they have
to defend their territory? Could it be that they know we have no
problem invading their sovereignty just as we have done to countless
other countries. Since World War II, 90% of the casualties of war are
unarmed civilians. 1/3 of them children. Our victims have done
nothing to us. From Palestine to Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia to
wherever our next target may be, their murders are not collateral
damage, they are the nature of modern warfare. They don't hate us
because of our freedoms. They hate us because every day we are
funding and committing crimes against humanity. The so-called "war
on terror" is a cover for our military aggression to gain
control of the resources of western Asia.
This is sending the poor of this country to
kill the poor of those Muslim countries. This is trading blood for
oil. This is genocide, and to most of the world, we are the
terrorists. In these times, remaining silent on our responsibility to
the world and its future is criminal. And in light of our complicity
in the supreme crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan, and
ongoing violations of the U.N. Charter in International Law, how dare
any American criticize the actions of legitimate resistance to
illegal occupation.
We are going into Syria for a couple of reasons
(yes we are in Syria with our Drones at a minimum), one, we are
trying to dislodge Russia from there because they have a foothold in
the Middle East via two military bases in Latakia and Tartus in
Syria. Two, Syria is a strong ally of Iran. If we invade Syria we
take out a strong ally and maybe incite Iran to assist giving the
U.S. the reason they are looking for to attack Iran. The ultimate
goal is to surround, weaken and to invade Iran. The petro dollar is
at stake as other countries are switching to other forms of currency
in buying Iran’s oil.
Since the Russian war in 1828, Iran has never
attacked another country. We on the other hand have attacked to name
a few:
Libya, Iran, Nicaragua, Haiti, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,
Angola, Mozambique, Honduras, Chile, Congo, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan,
Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Angola, Columbia, Peru, Panama, Yemen,
Pakistan, Grenada, Mexico, etc..
Wake up people we are being herded down the
Military Industrial Complex gauntlet again to another false war to
enrich the greedy Corporations and distract the American people. Did
we not learn anything from the Iraq war where we have killed well
over 1 million Iraqi people, lost thousands of American lives and God
knows how many hundreds of billions of dollars?
Who do you support, humanity or the greedy
elite?
Many of our soldiers don't fight for America,
they fight for their lives and their buddies beside them, because we
put them in a war zone. They're not defending our freedoms, they're
laying the foundation for permanent military bases to defend the
freedoms of Exxon Mobil and British Petroleum.
Face it we're Imperialists pure and simple. The
elite look down on all of us as expendable chattel.
"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to
be used as pawns for foreign policy" Henry Kissinger
I’m not asking you to hate war,
but to love peace? War, what is it good for, absolutely nothing!
because we HAD to "do the right thing" in Kuwait. They had oil. Lots of it. Syria does not. And Russia is their buddy like we were with Mubarak; enough to give them $$, but not exactly enough to go in and stop governmental abuse/murder. And this Syria mess will be Hell for those not doing anything to stop it soon enough. Libya was easy.
Lots of Oil. Like Iraq.
It's a shady ass World.
Twenty Years Ago This Week - Iraq Invaded Kuwait - August 2-5,1990 ...
Did I mention that it's all about Oil?
Send McCain over there to fight and pay for this campaign........he blames the President but does nothing with his colleagues in the Senate to start anything.....why blame the President when then want the power in the Senate to start wars.......
A Muslim problem. Lets keep it that way!
Those who are talking of killings of innocents, women and children better start counting them in Iraq now.
LOL! You mean good ol' John "Campaign Finance Reform" McCain?
He talked about our need to have CFR for 15 years, then when the Supreme Court
said "no go" on that he said, "Ok, CFR's dead!"
He should have resigned. His words are meaningless anymore.
yes sit back and then look for war criminals after thousands killed the world sitting back is a crime to be prosecuted, this world gone to hell
makes me wonder, You want to be the "world's cop", go ahead, but leave the USA out of this one! The middle east is one of the most corrupt places on earth. they have been fighting for thousands of years. Your not going to change it...so why bother?
Middle east = most corrupt place on earth?
And here i thought it was Wall street....
Shhh...
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
I do not buy that this is all being done by Syrian government troops. It makes no sense for the government to be attacking civilians like this or firing on UN observers. It is far more likely that these attacks are being carried out by the "rebels" in order to try and get the international community to put even more pressure on Assad and his government. These "rebels" are not freedom fighters and they have no interest in turning Syria into a free, democratic country. They are really nothing more than other religious sects who want control for themselves and will do anything to achieve their goal. In addition, many of these "rebels" are not even Syrians, they are outside instigators who are trying to foment unrest. It is long past time for the western nations and the UN to wake up to this reality. This practice of automatically blaming Assad and his government forces for every one of these atrocities needs to stop. They are blaming the government without and actual proof as to who was responsible for the attacks. They need to wake up and realize that these so called rebels are nothing more than religious fanatics who want to take control so that they can implement an Islamic Republic under their own brand of Islam.
Unfortunately the west and the UN have not learned their lesson from what has occurred in Libya and in Egypt. In both of those countries the UN and western powers endorsed and aided in the overthrow of what were basically secular dictators and turned the country over to Islamists. The secular dictators that they helped to overthrow were relatively benign by the standards of the Arab world and have been replaced by far more militant, intolerant Islamists. Just look at what is happening in Egypt. Under Mubarak people were basically free to worship as they chose and Muslims, Coptic Christians, and people of other faiths lived side by side in relative peace. Since the fall of Mubarak and the takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood there has been steadily increasing religious violence with non-Muslims being attacked and persecuted. There has also been a huge reduction in the rights of women in Egypt. In a country where women were once allowed to have careers, vote, and largely control their own destinies they are now finding themselves being returned to being second class citizens and treated like property. Many women are now no longer allowed to leave their own homes unless they are escorted by a male relative. The Muslim Brotherhood has made it clear that they are re-instituting the practice of female genital mutilation that had been outlawed by Mubarak. Girls are now no longer being allowed to go to school. Women in Egypt have seen things go hundreds of years backwards with regard to their rights and status in Egyptian society in a matter of months. In addition, the Muslim Brotherhood has made it clear that they intend to abrogate the long standing peace treaty with Israel which will lead to a huge elevation of tensions in the Middle East and could result in another 1967 style war.
Unless the west and the UN wakes up and recognizes the "rebels" in Syria for what they truly are a similar fate awaits the people of Syria as has been seen by the people of Egypt and Libya. Instead of helping these rebels to overthrow the Assad government, they should be working with Assad to transfer power to someone who basically shares Assad's largely secular views. Otherwise Syria will end up turning into yet another Islamic republic where anyone who does not follow the state approved version of Islam is mercilessly persecuted, if not outright killed, and women return to their status as second class citizens who are little more than the property of men.
Are you kidding me? Where do you suppose the rebels got the tanks? They didn't, it's the Syrian government. As to your point that it makes no sense for the government to attack civilians...have you ever heard of a civil war or revolt where the party in power didn't attack the opposition to stay in power?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/08/alex-thompson-syrian-rebels
What do Sunni Syrian Observatory and so on other labels Sunni Saudi agents know about human rights? Many don't even qualify to be "human."
Assad is one of the best ME ruler.
If atrocities and barbarism on girls, children and women are the criteria, then the most despotic, autocratic and bigoted Sunni Saudi ruler with his 5000 princes and princesses, Kuwaiti, UAE and other Arab League Sunni rulers and their rich sheiks are the biggest culprits in the history.
Through the Muslim immoral trafficking gangs, these barbarians have assembled all varieties of poor and helpless girls and women from all over the world in their harems and brothels.
These one-way traffic Saudi & co Islamic religious Nazis and barbarians don't permit Bibles and non-Muslims religious places, while they shamelessly export their extremist versions of Salaffi and Wahhabi mosques all over the world.
What do the seventh century desert mindset barbaric Sunni Islamic religious Nazi beasts think of themselves?
If the US, Britain and others support such Sunni barbarians and beasts who treat girls and women as cheap sex slaves, then one can only conclude that Saudis, oil companies and their lobbyists determine what to see, how to lecture and where and when to act.
Rest like “human rights”, “killing of children and women”, “militants”, “terrorists”, “WMDs”, “chemical weapons” and so on are a pure hoax.
Similar hoaxes were played each time before Iraqi wars on directions of Saudi, oil companies and their lobbyists.
Now none of them are looking into Iraq, where millions have been killed and devastated.
Twice are too much to tolerate.
WE HAVE NO ROLES IN ANY ME MUSLIM NATION.
Assad's boys are a bunch of panty wets! A full scale assault on barely armed rebels is the ONLY way they will EVER win any kind of armed engagement! They have already proven than their best attack strategy is to murder women and children! Pathetic! Wait until these wimps come up against a REAL army! They will drop their weopons and surrender faster than Saddam's wimps did!
Jonathan-1982062 - you sir are a bigot. To claim a living person is "less than human" because of their religion makes you no better than the individual you claim to hate. You have no moral superiority, so get down from your soap box.
Ask Mother Russia or Canada to take this one Soviet Canuckistan, we've had enough! It's a Middle Eastern thing, we wouldn't understand!!
Not asking you to get involved Tom, but i am asking you to think of people as people, instead of dehumanizing them... Germany was guilty of that about 65 years ago.... and it all started with a few people dehumanizing an entire population, while the rest turned away because they didn't want to get involved.
Did you understand my post?
All I am posting is: keep away from battles between Shiites vs Sunnis and all ME Muslim nation.
Russia, after getting good kicks, in Afghanistan has come to some senses.
Yeah they wised up and went into arms sales instead of using them.
Let's stay out of it and let them sort out their own messes. The US has enough problems and can start resolving them by pulling out and taking care of business at home
AMEN brother!!
Hamas, Hezbolloah and the Iranian Red Guards are the back bone of Assad's army. They are the militia men, they are the tank corps, without their help Assad would arleady be gone. If the Arabs don't take control then NATO and the UN needs to stay out of there. Turkey could crush Assad and his cronies if they wanted to. Turkey does not want to be responsible for having to rebuild everything. Muslims killing innocent people means nothing. It is the way they do business.
Syrian rebels are backed by equally barbaric Sunni militants (who are ampaging all over the world) like al-Qaida, MB and others.
Muslims enjoy killing. Either they have to kill infidels or their own with invented sectarian and tribal differences.
Let them do what they enjoy most or their Allah has asked them to do!
Just keep miles away from them.
That is crass and typically shallow. The killing started in Syria when Assad began it. A despot is a despot, no matter the label or religion others may blame. Like Africa, saving lives is not going to be easy, especially since the resources in Syria are lacking, so little to gain control of. Only International Condemnation has gotten the World to come closer to actually doing somithing about it.
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Syria is the face of Islam. This is evil personified and what will be moving into your community soon. They will not assimilate and become Americans, they will foster enclaves and keep to themselves. They will use our laws to force us to adapt to their ways and sue us for discrimination if we don't acquiesce and give them what they want. We know what needs to be done, will we have the backbone to do it is the question.
William, you are a frightened little man. You've bought off on fear perpetrated by the neoconservatives. They are using you and other frightened little people to push forward their "Project for a New American Century" agenda (Pax Americana), this time for profit. And they'll kill your children to get there (you won't see any of their children in uniform).
Sorry Ol Doc, I think for myself and allow others to do the same even If I disagree with their thinking. I don't need to demean or call names to others as I know it just shows their insecurity for all to see. This is my opinion and you may see it differently, and that's fine. Do try and raise your level of commentary to a higher level of maturity.
Sounds as if Ol_Doc has given the polite version of analysis regarding those frightened convulsions of belief you have dispersed, William. Doesn't appear he has any of the insecurities for all to see you defer to.
(Hands Mirror to William)
"I do agree that your manner of disseminating such fears is written with a very pronounced lack of faith, balls and self pride/determination, though. Just stay under your bed and everything will be just fine."
(Takes Mirror back from William)
Great Job, even though we may disagree.
Have A Nice Day!
☺
Frogman Turkey is the problem , Along with the US and the Saudis and Qataris , Even in the report , It start by saying that the Syrian army getting ready to attack Homs where the have not had control for a while now , Would some body make their minds up how about how they are they going to lie about the whole mess , Let's see , If our government did not have control of a city here ?? I wonder what would they do ?/? And then you got this reporter , reporting from Cairo EGYPT thousand MILE AWAY and basing his report on the rebels sources. UMMMMM . I wonder if you ask our republican about how good of job Obama doing , OR YOU ASK the Taliban's who's at fault in Afghanistan . You all want to go to a Sovereign country and try to smuggle Alqaeda thugs in there and arming them to the teeth , And then you expect that government to just sit still and watch as these thugs destroy their country . I know this Hillary and her cronies way , But these people in Syria are not going to let it happened , Now you tell me Assad invite the UN to Monitor the situation in Syria , And then he start Murdering his own people , Even his own troops . It kind getting little bit ridicules on our part and the UN AND NATO PART , What happening in Syria is a scenario which the Saudis and Qataris are Financing the Alqaeda and the Muslim Brother hood , The US and NATO arming them , And Turkey and Lebanon smuggling the Fighters and the Arms into Syria . Its just too convenient foe Hillary and the rest of her allies to keep doing this . Syria is an ally of Iran and Russia and off course Hezbollah , Hillary and Lieberman , McCain and all of our Representatives want to get Assad out , Because that will weaken Iran and Hezbollah , and off course will Please Hillary's and the US and SAUDIS AND Qatari MAIN Friend I S R A E L . If you have not figure that one out , well Sorry , You did not figure out the WMD story either , You swallowed the hook and sinker . And now , Here we go again . After Syria comes Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon , And then only GOD KNOWS . What other plans they have . May be RUSSIA , Hillary took time to and visit Georgia to start little trouble with the Russians , And they are not too happy about it I Know some of you now going to Jump up and scream FUUUUKKKK . The Russians , But we can not keep going like that .
Reminds me of Clinton and Reno attacking Waco.
If you have nothing relevant or intelligent to say...attack the other party.
The big problem with rescuing them is that when the current guru is gone, another jerk just like him will take his place. These people have no concept of democracy nor of human rights. The general public is just assumed to be subordinate to the whims of the "god-appointed" gurus who rob, rape, and murder them at will.
Cold lesson...
Too bad so many Arab countries and groups have stabbed us in the back for so long that we can't even trust those that might need our help even at times like these. Syria is a prime example of this, and it's something to think about before blaming America for all your troubles..... -remember 9/11 !!!!
JERRYB-160412 i DO NOT KNOW WHAT COUNTRY YOU TALKING ABOUT , bUT Syria WAS SAFER COUNTRY THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY , TILL WE AND OUR FRIENDS NATO AND SAUDIS AND QATARIS TRIED TO TOPPLE THE REGIME . So you really need to research little bit , before you give your judgement, Ask the Saudis and Qataris and their thugs the Alqaeda about what's happening , Then Ask our Media about the cove up and the fine one sided reporting . The problem is , we jump to judgement on these people lies , And the hidden truth , Ask these fine reporters , How many Christians had been killed ,and How many Churches had been burned . and the Christians refugees . Our reporting of the Truth was long gone Before the Iraqi War and the Kosovo ,and the Libyan wars .
I did research it, it seems Syria has been under martial law since early 60s.
I think the people there saw the Arab Spring happening around the ME, and Assad is just one of those who won't let go. Or is being paid not to.
BigLou-729767 I do not know what you talking about , Syria helped us after 9/11 , And the people that trying to overthrow the Syrian Regime are the same people that responsible for 9/11 . and you know what so ironic about the whole mess, We are helping and arming these people , The same people that attacked us , Ask Mrs. Clinton and McCain and Lieberman , They know, They are just trying to please the Saudis and Qataris and Israel just like they always do . The problem is , We are not seeing it , So we really need to get straight about who and what country was responsible for 9/11 , Syria , Iran , Iraq are not the ones. Try our friends , Saudis , Qataris and couple of our closest allies , So we say .
my turn...
The US respects and values our friends, just like others countries do with their friends... your going to have a real hard time explaning to me that countries like Iran, Syria, and even parts of Iraq are truely our friends !! Our soldier Marines were killed in Lebanon because of the Syrians.. and they celebrated in the streets and said many things by many people, especially right after 9/11 in Syria. You have let muslim fanatics speak you out of many friends you should of have in this world.. along with the faith and trust of people who would of come to your aid in these hard times in Syria... -remember 9/11 !!!
BigLou-729767 I remember 9/11 I Wish every body does and do something about out it . You got it wrong buddy Syria's people did not celebrate in the streets . It was the Palestinians and Pakistanis and Afghans . and they even caught some of the Jews community in NY doing that . But you know body , that's what's wrong with us , We got these people confused , We attack Iraq , Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 , That;s a proven facts, Saddam was fighting Alqaeda in Iraq , and Alqaeda were hiding in the mountains of Iraq where we had no fly zone for the Iraqi's Army . Your valuable friends the Saudis had 19 of their country men on the planes that attacked us , And Iran definitely did not have anything to do with 9/11 buddy , If you do not know the Iranians and the Alqaeda hate each other more than we hate alqaeda . So talk is cheap , when nobody trying to correct the other . Syria has 4 million Christians and most of them being attacked by these alqaeda thugs , Iraq had a huge Christian community back in Saddam's days . and most of them became refugees to Syria and other Christian countries after we and NATO went into Iraq . We never want to forget 9/11 . But you need not get mixed up with the people that did it . Why we have not asked the Saudis their involvement ???????
When you are the leader of the strongest nation in the world, you are forced to make moral choices. You can stand by and let thousands of people be murdered or you can step in a stop it! Obama made the moral choice to let innocent women and children be slaughtered. He has to live with that decision and American have to live with the fact that they have a leader who places no value on human life unless he can gain a few votes with an assassination! No country in the world trusts Obama any more. We no longer have allies! A complete lack of respect for human life is the basis of Obama's mantra. America voted for him knowing this.
dumb post - "A complete lack of respect for human life is the basis of Obama's mantra." Just...dumb. Go ahead, vote for that draft-dodging cult member the Romulan.
Jamie, Go get your gun and head for Syria. We are not the World's "Police Force". To the Muslims, we are "Infidels". Nothing more, Nothing less! Let the Arab countries with all of their "oil money" clean up their own back yard! This has nothing to do with politics, it is just stupid to ask our military to shed it's own blood for a people that were chanting "death to America" five years ago! You want to help, head on over! Personally, it's none of your business!!
No need to fear, it's coming.
Arab nations should take care of Arab nations if the West is so not understanding of their culture. But no, they'd rather we get involved and then blame the US or Euro nations for it. They can do no wrong......must be nice.
We are not the worlds "Police Force". Let the Arabs clean up their own mess. This is not a matter of strategic importance. Syria is a Middle Eastern problem, so let them deal with it. Nowhere is it written that just because a government is attacking it's own population, that the U.S.A. should come to the rescue. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, U.A.E., have their own military that we supplied them with, let them use it! They have most of the same equipment that our military has. If we help to "liberate" the people of Syria, they will be chanting "death to America" has soon has we leave. Maybe they should ask Allah for help, instead of the "Infidels"!
Where are the Syrians getting their ammo????
Deport Your question should be , Where are the rebels getting their ammo???? The Syrian government is a state and friend of Russia , and they get their weapons from Russia , Just like Israel and the Saudis And Qataris , Turks and everybody in that region get their weapons from the US and NATO . Now the rebels ( Sorry , The innocent rebels ) are getting their weapons from the US and ISRAEL compliment from the Saudis and Qataris , And they are getting the Alqaeda and the Muslim Brother hood fighters from every little corner in the World , But Mostly the Left over Alqaeda from the LIBYA , IRAQI , KOSOVO , CHECHNYA and they are getting smuggled into Syria through Turkey and Lebanon , And off course they are backed by Our Media and the Aljazeera and AL ARABIA news , and off course every body now that going after Iran and Syria and Hezbollah for our Spoiled child Israel . That's is the whole reason . Assad never been a Murderer His country hold 4 million Christians and they are respected and allow to practice their religion freely , Unlike in Saudi and all the Gulf States and even in Israel .
thats what wrong with america today, soaked in selfishness, america should be about principle. Many comments here are cowards like, and if France had taken some of these comments seriously, you would be bowing to the king, France save the day for americans when the picture of freedom looked dim and impossible. Assad must go, hang, bullet to the head, or rot in a ICC prison for the rest of his life, and judgement will fall hard on him someday soon. As a decent america, I think the U.S. France and others could send a couple drones each and send a message to Assad tanks, heavy weapontry, that is daily pounding on syria towns and cities, and militants that kill and/or torture childrens, Assad needs to learn the hard way or he'll continue to try to squash arab spring and/or make the majority of syrians a minority. Assad will pay dearly for his by the thousands evil sins that includes genocide
Why is everyone so worked up about what a foreign Government is doing to squash an uprising? Let me ask you idiots this simple question - If 5,000 heavily armed people suddenly took over downtown LA Tonight, do you think the US Government would stand by and let them indiscriminately rape, pillage, and burn the city? Not a chance in He*l...There would be a massive Police response and if the Cops couldn't handle it the next thing would be a military intervention. So why is it so different over there? These people are trying to topple an existing Governing body, and their getting it handed to them. I say crush em all
Completely agree, I don't understand why people are under the impression that things would be any different in the US or any other Western nation. This is at most a civil war and look at the history of every other civil war. Hey why is it that the UN isn't talking about actions to be taken in countries in Africa that have the same things going on?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/index.html OK UN LETS SEND TROOPS TO ALL THESE LOCATIONS. sarcasm for any of you that couldn't tell