"Akeed the country is going to go through a long period of rebuilding.. but in the end to get rid of a tyrant like Bashar is well worth it."
!!!! how can you say that??? all these dead, all this destruction, hundreds of thousands of refugees, hundreds of thousands of wounded, crippled, orphans, millions of people losing everything... just to get one man?? seriously arazak? and when the outcome is not guaranteed (nothing indicates the FSA/salafis/funadamentalist groups mishmosh will be any better) AND when there was another approach, more likely to give positive results???
how can you even say that??
okay you hate bashar, and to a far extent i agree with you hate of bashar, but this, this is just too much. this is what every philosophy, religious or not, refers too when they say do not let hatred blind you.
"they are not obligated to accept what bashar gives them.. it has been the case in syria for a while.. it was a time when bashar should have accepted their demands.. stand down.."
who "they? arzak? who? you speak as if they represent the people, but they have no credentials whatsoever. the people expressed themselves, millions went down in the street in support of bashar, millions went to vote (whether "yes" or "no"), to the new constitution indicating they were open to this path for progress. only a handful of people, living abroad and who havent been in syria for decades, said no and sent their mercenaries and fighters impose terror on the people.
arzak such accusations are serious, they can't rely on "sense" even if you think that "sense" is common...
if the HA fighters were fighting alongside the syrian army, with the thousands of battles that took place between rebels and army, the rebels would have by now either captured some, or at least have dead bodies of HA fighters to show. (and no, pilgrims in a bus, especially old men travelling with their wifes, do not count as such)
there might be some "good" elements in the revolt, but given how numerous the "bad" ones are, and knowing that they are the ones receiving funding and weapons from saudi, they are probably the ones who will clean up the good ones.
a huge LOL at your calculations. first there are about 100,000 fighters, not 5 million (if they were 5mil the fight would have been over in a day)
second the cost of war is not calculated in such a simple way, it's not just about buying a few gun per fighter. there is the media war which alone costs a few billions, there's paying the mercenaries enough for them to agree to go an fight and die, there's the transport (weapons and fighters), there's cost of the satellites which are assigned to monitor syrian troops movements, there are the costs of bribing defectors, the FSA leaders each seem to have received tens of millions, not to mention the SNC leaders.
there are the "middlemen" like sakr who undoubtedly received millions for their "humanitarian" work, there are the advanced weapons (anti-air missiles notably), the "doushka" equipped 4x4s of which hundreds were already destroyed, there are the consultants and advisers, there are the economic costs and compensations offered to neighboring or involved countries (jordan, turkey) etc etc etc...
the US had 100k to 200k soldiers in afghanistan and iraq, if we used such a simple calculation as yours 4000B/200k = 20million$/soldier. (and lol at their results btw)
In Long-Awaited Move, Obama Recognizes Syrian Rebels
12 December 2012, 16:36and meanwhile, the resistance continues and grows stronger :)
125 Victims in Syria Alawite Village Bombings
12 December 2012, 17:01here we are in the infinity loop again ;)
"Akeed the country is going to go through a long period of rebuilding.. but in the end to get rid of a tyrant like Bashar is well worth it."
!!!! how can you say that??? all these dead, all this destruction, hundreds of thousands of refugees, hundreds of thousands of wounded, crippled, orphans, millions of people losing everything... just to get one man?? seriously arazak? and when the outcome is not guaranteed (nothing indicates the FSA/salafis/funadamentalist groups mishmosh will be any better) AND when there was another approach, more likely to give positive results???
how can you even say that??
okay you hate bashar, and to a far extent i agree with you hate of bashar, but this, this is just too much. this is what every philosophy, religious or not, refers too when they say do not let hatred blind you.
125 Victims in Syria Alawite Village Bombings
12 December 2012, 17:04"they are not obligated to accept what bashar gives them.. it has been the case in syria for a while.. it was a time when bashar should have accepted their demands.. stand down.."
who "they? arzak? who? you speak as if they represent the people, but they have no credentials whatsoever. the people expressed themselves, millions went down in the street in support of bashar, millions went to vote (whether "yes" or "no"), to the new constitution indicating they were open to this path for progress. only a handful of people, living abroad and who havent been in syria for decades, said no and sent their mercenaries and fighters impose terror on the people.
Eid Accuses Mustaqbal of Smuggling Arms to Syria, Inciting Tripoli Residents to Attack Jabal Mohsen
12 December 2012, 17:13arzak such accusations are serious, they can't rely on "sense" even if you think that "sense" is common...
if the HA fighters were fighting alongside the syrian army, with the thousands of battles that took place between rebels and army, the rebels would have by now either captured some, or at least have dead bodies of HA fighters to show. (and no, pilgrims in a bus, especially old men travelling with their wifes, do not count as such)
Syria Issues Arrest Warrants against Hariri, MP Saqr, Louay Meqdad
12 December 2012, 17:19there might be some "good" elements in the revolt, but given how numerous the "bad" ones are, and knowing that they are the ones receiving funding and weapons from saudi, they are probably the ones who will clean up the good ones.
Damascus: Failure to Hand over Hariri, Saqr, Meqdad is Violation of International Law
12 December 2012, 17:29Syria killed rafic hariri?
ever hariri's son doesnt agree with you habboub:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11200278
In Long-Awaited Move, Obama Recognizes Syrian Rebels
12 December 2012, 17:40100B$ is nothing, especially for saudi:
http://world.bymap.org/FinancialReserves.html
saudi has 3x more financial reserves that the USA, and still the US spent up to 4000B$ on their recent wars http://costsofwar.org/
Damascus: Failure to Hand over Hariri, Saqr, Meqdad is Violation of International Law
12 December 2012, 17:49if you are bent on pinning it on one of the two, yes, than it has to be one of the two.
but.. there's a slight chance one could detect a prejudiced premise in the above statement.
In Long-Awaited Move, Obama Recognizes Syrian Rebels
12 December 2012, 19:06a huge LOL at your calculations. first there are about 100,000 fighters, not 5 million (if they were 5mil the fight would have been over in a day)
second the cost of war is not calculated in such a simple way, it's not just about buying a few gun per fighter. there is the media war which alone costs a few billions, there's paying the mercenaries enough for them to agree to go an fight and die, there's the transport (weapons and fighters), there's cost of the satellites which are assigned to monitor syrian troops movements, there are the costs of bribing defectors, the FSA leaders each seem to have received tens of millions, not to mention the SNC leaders.
In Long-Awaited Move, Obama Recognizes Syrian Rebels
12 December 2012, 19:06there are the "middlemen" like sakr who undoubtedly received millions for their "humanitarian" work, there are the advanced weapons (anti-air missiles notably), the "doushka" equipped 4x4s of which hundreds were already destroyed, there are the consultants and advisers, there are the economic costs and compensations offered to neighboring or involved countries (jordan, turkey) etc etc etc...
the US had 100k to 200k soldiers in afghanistan and iraq, if we used such a simple calculation as yours 4000B/200k = 20million$/soldier. (and lol at their results btw)