ISIS loses Palmyra

[iolo]

LOL You think they want to get rid of Assad on ethical grounds? They want to get rid of Assad because Assad is pro-Russian.

It's rather because Assad is pro-Hezbollah and pro-Iran, as well as anti-Saudis and other US allies. Russian presence in this case was certainly annoying US but the US positions in Middle East don't revolve around Russia.

The United States and its allies deliberately worked up sectarian strife as a means to back their colonial attacks, and meanwhile heavily support the Zionist child-murderers who hate all 'Arabs' on racist grounds. Naturally those of a different religious persuasion from the Saudi-backed madmen of ISIS get together to defend themselves against killers of both kinds.

 

[Will Wiley]

LOL You think they want to get rid of Assad on ethical grounds? They want to get rid of Assad because Assad is pro-Russian.

It's rather because Assad is pro-Hezbollah and pro-Iran, as well as anti-Saudis and other US allies. Russian presence in this case was certainly annoying US but the US positions in Middle East don't revolve around Russia.

For neo conservatives that is a secondary concern. Their first objective has always been to prevent the emergence of a rival. Differences between groups in the middle east are secondary issues.

In foreign policy, the neoconservatives' main concern is to prevent the development of a new rival. Defense Planning Guidance, a document prepared during 1992 by Under Secretary for Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz, is regarded by Distinguished Professor of the Humanities John McGowan at the University of North Carolina as the "quintessential statement of neoconservative thought". The report says:[77]

"Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power."

Rather we could say Syria being pro Iran etc etc...is annoying, but the main consideration is that Syria does not aid the emergence of a serious rival, and that means Russia

 

[Crazy Eddie]

LOL You think they want to get rid of Assad on ethical grounds?

You misunderstand. I believed before that getting involved AT ALL was both immoral and unethical, whatever the ridiculous reason they were claiming for it. Now I believe that even if it WASN'T immoral, they're too incompetent to be trusted with the task anyway.

 

[J842P]

LOL You think they want to get rid of Assad on ethical grounds?

You misunderstand. I believed before that getting involved AT ALL was both immoral and unethical, whatever the ridiculous reason they were claiming for it. Now I believe that even if it WASN'T immoral, they're too incompetent to be trusted with the task anyway.

Ah, I see. Yeah I was surprised you would have believed that, given your posting history.