Russia looking more and more like the voice of reason, while America becomes the voice of insanity.Indeed.
Don’t kid yourself, Russia is only serving themselves. They could care less about Syrains. As for this, the US is doing nothing and we’re still getting the blame? The only nation I see getting involved with Syria is Russia who has been selling war choppers to the Syrian gov’t to use against their own people.
Precisely.
“the voice of insanity”??? That dog won’t hunt. No government should take up arms against their own people when the opposing voice is the majority.
The opposition in Syria are terrorists and Assad is the good guy killing with his army his own people ?
Catholics and Orthodox on the ground in Syria are saying that the opposition are Islamic extremist terrorists. Don’t buy into the lies that the media feeds to you. I know people from Syria and they corroborate this. They would not say that Assad is “the good guy”…but he protects Christians. If he goes down…you will see the destruction of the monasteries and Churches…and the mass murder of Christians. Russia knows this…and we should too.
Politics in the Middle East is “one gang against another”. Christians are too few to have their own “gang” or power base. Thus, to survive, they must ally themselves with some other gang. In both Iraq and Syria, that gang was the Ba’ath. Terrible that they will pay the price at the hands of other gangs now. But they will.
Yes. It breaks my heart.
And in Obama’s War in Afghanistan the U.S. is killing civilians by the hundreds with predator drones.
But that is just the point. Assad is part of the bath party and doesn’t endorse or tolerate Islamic fundamentalism. He protects the minority religions and especially Catholicism and Eastern Christianity. Romney is completely wrong on this issue, even more so than Obama.
I don't see where Bashar Al-Assad has been such an evil ruler. No, Syria hasn't been a democratic country, but if that's justification for a violent uprising, then we better support similar actions all around the world wherever they don't have free elections. Assad until recently has done a good job of protecting Christians, Shias, Alawites, and Jews. And despite his being a staunch opponent of the State of Israel, he has invited Syrian Jews to return.First of, it’s Ba’ath Party…not bath party.
More propaganda from the Russians I see.
Don’t forget Syria’s long time state-sponsorship of Hezbollah.
So then you would rather see an Al-Queda run Syria with Sharia law and all the Catholic/Orthodox Churches and monasteries destroyed and the Christians murdered?
I’d like to not be involved when two great evils are fighting each other. The US is not getting involved and should remain so.
I think the U.S should get involved. We are Christians first and foremost. I would like for my country to make it a priority to protect Syria’s Christians. Syria has many Orthodox and some Catholics…I think that is part of the motivation that is driving Russia…to protect the Christians (Russia is mostly Orthodox).