• @Kinperor@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    I don’t really feel like rehashing all the ways that the Iraq/Afghanistan war were disastrous

    training Syrian troops (who eventually did win) as a result of the Arab Spring and Assad gassing his own people which Obama did not start

    You need to read about Timber Sycamore. Assad did a lot of bad things, but it’s mental to imply that it was worth investing in Al-Qaeda affiliated militias to overthrow him. The new leader in Syria had a $10* million bounty on his head before rising to power in Syria, he is a leader of a splinter group of Al-Qaeda.

    The Assad overthrow is not the pure-wholesome western win that you think it is. Sectarian minorities have been ethnically cleansed by these Syrian rebels now in power.

    If you think that this is a success story from Obama’s admin, I’m afraid there’s no point discussing any longer.

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      Is it because the CIA was involved that you automatically assume it was bad or that Al-Qaeda is the same organization it was 25 years ago?

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        44 days ago

        25 years ago? The guy was wanted as a terrorist with a $10m bounty in 2017, the fuck you mean “25 years ago”. The bounty was rescinded because he overthrew a government seen as hostile by Israel and the US.

        Are you just ignoring the article I linked describing mass killings of Alawite? Are you trying to defend those guys?

        • The fuck I mean 25 years ago?

          Gee, I dunno what happened about 25 years ago that could be historically relevant to this conversation /s

          Yes, I am ignoring your articles

          Of course I don’t condone the mass killing of alawites. I am also not Syrian and do not know why Assad loyalist groups killed 26 civilians and 121 police members of the Syrian General Security Service or why Syrian security forces and pro-government fighters in response perpetrated the killing of more than 700 Alawite civilians across parts of the Latakia countryside

          I try not to question the absurdity of civil war, the answers are never satisfying