Are you talking about the same peaceful protest that was infiltrated by foreign fighters who killed 7 Syrian policemen?
If you think we only got involved later you are deluded.
It's hard to intervene if one is part of the plot to destabilise a country and topple the government in the first place. We are party to supporting and militarising foreign fighters in Syria yet we pretend that we haven’t intervened when we blatantly have.
If intervening now or before means air...
So do I, but their fate is in the hands of the rebels. The question is do the rebels care as much as you do? If they do, they and the civilians have the option of safe passage out of there.
Before this all started Assad was pro reform but most importantly he was secular. The whole Middle East and Muslim countries are historically brutal and it's hard to change this type of system overnight. All of a sudden his army was attacked on all fronts from many factions and ISIS and they...
What can NSC'rs do about it?
The rebels have insisted that they won't enter peace talks until Assad steps down and hands over his military to them. They have also insisted that they don't want the Kurds to be part of the solution. After 5 years of war the opposition haven't spent a one second...
Muslims Like Us was an interesting 2 part documentary if anyone missed it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b085zxxk/muslims-like-us-episode-1
10 British Muslim's with views from moderate to strict who shared a house for 10 days. Worth a watch.
The Shia girl on there had some family...
Well we have tried 3 different types of intervention. Full air and land attack in Iraq that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands. In Libya we restricted our intervention by air attack only and left Gaddafi’s military hardware to the Islamic militants who slaughtered black working migrants and...
If our soldiers were in that position and we were risking the lives of our children and families because we were launching attacks from populated areas and we were losing, we would be out of there just to save the lives of others.
The UK and US Ambassadors to the UN, Samantha Power and Matthew Rycroft act as if our countries haven’t been behind the regime change policy and supporting a foreign invasion and supply of arms for the last five years. It’s all Assad’s fault though.
The rebels don't care about civilians, and if innocent people and children die as martyrs they believe that Allah will give them greater rewards in heaven. They all truly believe that the more suffering the better heaven will be. It's a self fulfilling prophecy because that is what they are...
And the Yazidi's who the so called moderate rebels don't give a fuk about. They don't even want the Kurds to be part of the political process.
The rebels have the choice to move away from the civilians with their lives or use the civilians as human shields. They don't care about the children...