Re: The whole Syria thing
I'm hearing opposing accounts from Syrian expats living here. Granted, most Syrian expats, being dissident refugees from the Assad regime, tend to support the official international position that Assad is evil, he's killing his own people, and he should be removed from power by God's blessing and the strong hand of the resolute president Trump who's now acting like a true Dear Leader.
However, one Syrian analyst argued the chemical attack was a false-flag, staged by the extremist "rebels" (there are indications that Assad had given up all his WMDs years ago, and that the WMDs used in this attack had a different signature from the ones Assad used to have). The idea was to get the US involved in the war and tip the scales away from Assad, who's been winning since the Russians got involved. That makes a lot of sense, frankly. After all, Assad has no interest to antagonize the whole world by using WMDs now, when he has almost won. In the past, maybe. Things were looking rather grim for him a few years ago, and he could've had a rationale for using WMDs back then. But now?
Besides, where's the proof that he had WMDs in that particular air base? Are we again jumping into a conflict based on an insinuation, like in Iraq? The media are cumming all over president Trump now, praising him for being presidential and even describing the bombing of that air base as "beautiful" and "poetic". Are we going to play this game again now? And how many times can the same mistake be repeated?
However, one Syrian analyst argued the chemical attack was a false-flag, staged by the extremist "rebels" (there are indications that Assad had given up all his WMDs years ago, and that the WMDs used in this attack had a different signature from the ones Assad used to have). The idea was to get the US involved in the war and tip the scales away from Assad, who's been winning since the Russians got involved. That makes a lot of sense, frankly. After all, Assad has no interest to antagonize the whole world by using WMDs now, when he has almost won. In the past, maybe. Things were looking rather grim for him a few years ago, and he could've had a rationale for using WMDs back then. But now?
Besides, where's the proof that he had WMDs in that particular air base? Are we again jumping into a conflict based on an insinuation, like in Iraq? The media are cumming all over president Trump now, praising him for being presidential and even describing the bombing of that air base as "beautiful" and "poetic". Are we going to play this game again now? And how many times can the same mistake be repeated?