If you have an explanation as to why Anwar al Awlaki was hunted down with drones, and Hassan Nasruallah hasn't been touched, please enlighten us,
Easy, Americans have access to Yemeni airspace, but not to Lebanese. And assassination via f-16 in a foreign country is not as easy as you think.
if you have an explanation as to why Shia who openly support Hezbullah (a "terrorist" organization) are hardly ever touched by the FBI here right in America, please let us know,
uh huh... You just want me to take your word for it that Hezbollah is hardly ever touched by the FBI?
if you have an explanation why even with all the rhetoric Iran spews, why they dealt with Israel in the Iran-Iraq war, under the leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini the "fiercest" of them all, then EXPLAIN it rather than say it's ridiculous because it doesn't fit your preconceived world view.
I already explained that one. Its divide et imperia. And the person who first published the small dealings of Israel with Iran says the same. Israel wanted the war to continue, to further weaken both.
Who do you think took over Iraq after America toppled Saddam?? The Shia! The Iranian backed Jaysh al Mehdi under Muqtada al Sadr made many deals with the Americans and still operate in Iraq calling the shots, the government is Shia, and there are even reports of non-Arab iranians doing interrogations of people there in their secret prisons, so once again the tide was shifted to the Iranians with the help of America.
And you are going to try to tell me that this is... why, again?
Oh, right, Israel prefers the Shia over the Sunni. The same Shia who are the oppressors in Syria, oppressors of Iraqis, and other sunnis, like yourself.
Yeah, I did notice there was a little war between sunni and shia in Iraq, and it sounds like, had you lived there, you would be picking your side too.
When there's a threat somewhere to Israel it's dealt with either by Israel itself, or by American drones, and we haven't seen them go after Iran yet, or any Iranian backed groups Iran has never warred with Israel but the Arabs sure have.
I'd say Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, is as close as they could get. Let's not forget, Iran is about 1000 miles from Israel, and two countries away, to boot. Wasn't it prettyu much Hezbollah that defeated Israel in the 2006 Lebanon war? You know, crippled the Israeli anti-missile ship with an anti-ship missile, the INS Hanit?
This is what I am talking about. You seem to have these blind spots in your history. So you sound well educated... ...except when one looks beneath the surface, they see a strong Sunni preference for facts.
Complete and utter diversion. It's not a sectarian battle. If it was the sunnis would overwhelmingly win, there are even Christians and Allawis on the side of the FSA, my point is the FSA couldn't massacre civilians even if they wanted to because their enemies in the civilian sector (the allawis) are a VERY small minority by comparison, it's not Iraq, it's not a sectarian war, its a war of the ruling class vs the people.
OK, it's class warfare, (just like it was hutu vs tutsi in Rwanda) but we can still consider that sectarian violence, especially if there are more than just class lines dividing people, as is the case here.
You're not arguing against my point. I don't disagree CIA/MI6 or whatever other intel agencies are IN syria, but that doesn't dispute the fact that the Assad regime is murdering its people en masse, that's a fact that's illustrated in the raw videos I posted.
So, what DO YOU think happened at Houla?
Assad's army marched right into rebel controlled area, and rounded up a bunch of people and executed them in dead of night?
After all, that is what the news reports are now saying:
Most Houla victims killed in summary executions: U.N.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-syria-unbre84s100-20120529,0,1432506.story
So, do you believe that's how it happened? Walked right into houses and executed families?
Also, please explain why activist videos show this happening during the day, but the U.N. report is saying it happened at night.
Also, they say only syria has artillery, but surely the rebels have RPG's.
And, please, explain to me... ..how the Bodo league massacre was blamed on the North Koreans for over 50 years. This is a story about 109 people, that was a story about 100,000 to 1.2 MILLION people massacred, and blamed on the opposition. The whole "blame the enemy for your own atrocities" is nothing new.
Yeah, I think I do. I am a history major from the University of Washington, here in Seattle, and I took it seriously. What are your credentials? That you are Arab, therefore you know all truth about middle east policy? Well how about I am American, and formally studied in history, (29 classes, hundreds of books, 3.7 gpa in these 29 courses) and I know a thing or two about American foreign policy and manipulation. And that is just because I am interested in it, there is hardly an area of the world I did not study (Japan, the Arabian Peninsula, not much of East Africa, not much of Scandinavia and the Baltic states are the only areas I would say I got little studying done on). So yeah, talking down to me isn't going to work, friend.
You're right that was from a different houla massacre, i didn't check the date.
Massacre? Those look like dead fighters to me.
Here's one from the one we're discussing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlHYqGzsvSw "killed by the hands of asad's
shabiha"
Assad's shabiha. Another thing you have been trying to argue is Assad himself is pulling the strings. How do you know these shabiha aren't just angry conservatives who want to keep their power, and are defying Assad's wishes? Do you think Assad is enjoying being handed a country embroiled in civil war? Do you think he still believes hard power is better than soft? And EVEN IF Assad ordered the Shabiba in, how does that prove these casualties are from a massacre? How do we know they are not simply the casualties of crossfire?
Yeah? well, what do you think about all the blatant lies and misinformation being spread about Syria? Why should we believe anything our government or press tells us, when they blow up stories like "gay girl in Damsscus" without ever checking the veracity of her claims... ...or if she even is Syrian. And in case you didn't know about that story, during that time, "conspiracy theorists" were strongly questioning whether she was even real, because it was all too convenient, and because she wrote like an American, not a Syrian.
"you can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool all of the people, all of the time." --Abraham Lincoln
What do you think about that? Do you think it is just incompetence? Please answer these questions.
can you please find some real evidence, and not something from "activists" in Syria?
