RE: Why all people think that Assad and ISIS are the only choices?
November 30, 2015 at 3:02 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2015 at 3:05 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 30, 2015 at 1:32 pm)Ramy Wrote: I've met hundreds of refugees who are muslims and they're desperate for the Syrian situation. Most of them escape from Assad and say that he massacred the civilian population long before that the war started, and when there was no track of Al Qaeda in Syria.
According to some sources, Assad freed extremists from the prisons to feed a sectarian war: http://www.thenational.ae/world/syria/as...l-uprising
Now I don't know if you are aware of this, but Syria is ruled by an alawite minority which represents 10-12% of the total population. Assad's popular support was close to 0% at the early days of the revolution. By freeding the Al Qaeda prisoners he:
1) Made sure that all the religious minorities (that make about 20-25% of the country's population) supported him
2) Gained popular support both in Syria and other countries, as he's now seen as the only alternative to Al Qaeda and ISIS
3) Prevented foreign countries such as the U.S. from effectively supporting the moderate rebels. The only reason that refrains the U.S. from fully supporting these rebels is that they fear that there are Al Qaeda infiltrates
While I'm an Atheist and I believe that Assad's secularism was surely positive and beneficial to Syria, I can't see how can people support him out of this. If he was a honest person there wouldn't be Al Qaeda in Syria, so why are people supporting a person who created the problem and then proposed the solution? all this just to continue leading the country because he knew that the people would have toppled him otherwise.
Am I the only person who doesn't Assad as a valid alternative?
He may be undesired, but why is he "invalid"? "Validity" seems in this context to be an attempt to deny reality and substitute for reality in one's own mind with comforting word games.
