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tabatha

(18,795 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 12:53 AM Jan 2012

How can we save Syria? By ABDUL RAHMAN AL-RASHED

The Arab League is aware that it deals with one of the shrewdest, fiercest and most ruthless regimes in the world. A regime that has swallowed Lebanon -- under the Arab League flag -- within the so-called Arab-deterrence forces, and controlled the country for three decades, while no local, Arab or international power was able to push it out.

That regime's actions in Palestine exceeded what the Israelis had done; it split the Palestinians and marginalized their authority. It conspired against the Mecca agreement and thus killed the only reconciliation initiative.

It is a regime that enabled the Iranians to have access to the Arab world and offered them what they failed to get through their money and militias.

It is a regime that hosted the Arab observers and cracked down on those who dared to reveal its lies. One observer said they sent prostitutes to their hotel and secretly photographed them in their own rooms and bathrooms, and posted the pictures in order to blackmail them. So why the Arab League still thinks that it is squeezing?

http://english.alarabiya.net/views/2012/01/31/191596.html

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How can we save Syria? By ABDUL RAHMAN AL-RASHED (Original Post) tabatha Jan 2012 OP
Find more oil there. MannyGoldstein Jan 2012 #1
That is incorrect. tabatha Jan 2012 #2
Write it to disk mindwalker_i Jan 2012 #3
This article is spot on. There will be no peace until Assad is gone... ellisonz Jan 2012 #4
Yeah, right. Particularly the bit about Iranians, those true enemies of Fool Count Jan 2012 #5

tabatha

(18,795 posts)
2. That is incorrect.
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 12:58 AM
Jan 2012

But it would be pointless to explain why. Maybe you can explain how the US profited?

Btw, Syria does have oil.

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)
4. This article is spot on. There will be no peace until Assad is gone...
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 05:56 AM
Jan 2012

...all those who love humanity should endorse the Syrian resistance.

 

Fool Count

(1,230 posts)
5. Yeah, right. Particularly the bit about Iranians, those true enemies of
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:28 AM
Jan 2012

of the Arab world. LOL. Kinda gives away the true motivation of the Salafi terrorists.

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