روسيا تحذر من ان الغارات على سوريا ستؤدي الى "انتشار الارهاب"

sorry.. just realized the severe typo.. "protected"

And this for you to see the CURRENT situation in Maaloul:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQSieDwoA9c

C'mon you, dust off yourself and join reality. While I sympathize and agree with you that things weren't as good as our friends here say they were and perpetrators should be punished, you simply cannot stay in the past and to forgo reality and the future.

Endless. Let us get this right. I being against the Assad govt does not mean I am with the takfiris. I believe that once, or should I say if, Assad is toppled, there is enough moderates in Syria to elect a secular, minority protecting, democratic govt. let us not forget that it is Assad himself who freed a lot of these people in the first place (am not saying foreign jihadists have not entered since.) let us not forget that Assad himself could have spared the country by agreeing to step down and holding free and fair internationaly monitered elections. Let us also not forget that this started because some kids were tortured for writing graffiti on the wall.

I am a Christian. But why should I only sympathise with Christians? Which I do. Where is your sympathy for the kids and men and women who were tortured, arbitrarily arrested and disappeared in the five star jails of this man during and before the uprising? Yes I will hold Syria responsible for what it did in Lebanon as long as it is the same family and mentality that is ruling it. Once these criminals are made to pay the price I will forget. So let us speak the truth and be equally critical. And that if Assad (father & son) were not the definition of monsters all of this would have been avoided.

arzak-ya-libnan; Realpolitik -- he can't be removed militarily and not cause the country to delve hastily into chaos. There's so much terroristic aggregation in Syria it that I am in disbelief. I've seen things. Things Lebanon can't surmount if they are not kicked out of Syria even if the opposition takes hold right this very moment. That's why I believe the solution should be political. Al-Assad removed and both the FSA and the SAA removed every trace of terrorists. If they keep thinning each others' numbers while terrorists continue to amass in numbers and replace losses from all around the world, they and us would be place between a rock and a hard place. We're on the same side, believe you me.

arzak-ya-libnan, yes I agree with all your statements, except one. I despise the treacherous Syrian relations and the Lebanese collaborates of that time (i.e. at least half of parliament today ) and would rather see all of them AND Al-Assad and their memories removed from the potentially glorious 10452km2 sanctuary of the blessed Cedars, Lebanon.

I agree Al-Assad should be removed, I agree his internal policies were barbarous, I agree moderates should take hold of the country, I agree they should work for a secular and fair democracy, I agree Al-Assad may have released hundreds of terrorists, what I agree to disagree on however is the current situation in terms of the ability of the moderates to avoid a failed state while in the truest sense of the word, terrorists number in the tens of thousands.