What a perfect opportunity for Assads forces to score some brownies....
They charge in to the rescue and free the UN and it will complcate the situation for the MSM/

Its always great to know you picked the right side from the start... FSA supporters, come at me, explain to me why you still support these thugs after an incident like this? Your case is crumbling...

This sounds like a desperation move on the part of the terrorists, trying to use any leverage they can get to maintain ground, but this looks like it will backfire on them and expose them for who they really are.

Really like to see the look on the U.S. politicians faces who have been funding the terrorists if anything happens to these Peacekeepers. Almost as bad as taking Red Cross or likewise groups hostage. Was only a matter of time before something happens that the media couldn't cover up as Assad's fault.

Originally posted by Monger
Just because one group of people are adamant that a conflict isn't a 'real' civil war doesn't make it any less a civil war. What does the fact that there are foreign fighters fighting for one side or the other have to do with the conflict's status as a civil war?

Well usually a civil war is fought between the countries people/government, not foreigners who have infiltrated what was likely a legitimate uprising. How can we call this a civil war when the people fighting have no interest in what the Syrian people want? The Syrians want Assad in power apart from a minority who are accused of bein outcasts and criminals.

It's not the west's conflict, we should stay the hell out of it. I find it disgusting and a little bit hilarious the way people are following every little development and picking sides that they 'support,' like they would a favorite sports team. You see this strange mentality from people 'supporting' both sides, it's genuinely bizarre.

The idea is to work out what the hell is going on over their and from what I'm seeing, the country is a lot worse than what it was before the war started whether Assad is good or bad.

I regularly see propaganda from one side or the other being spouted by people who, to my mind, have no tangible connection to whats going on over there. People are so plugged in these days and with the huge number of videos coming out of the country they're treating it like a reality TV contest.

I don't have any connection to Syria but I do a lot of research to what is going on over their. I look at both sides of the issue pro and against Assad. Again, from what I have learnt, Assad is likely right in most of what hes saying and thats not my opinion, the proof is starting to surface on its own.

The fact is that both sides have committed atrocities and we should keep in mind the number of non-combatants who have been killed in this petty little pissing match. On one side you have a brutal autocrat propped up by Russia and Iran who for years turned a blind eye while extremist fighters slipped across the border to attack American servicemen in Iraq, and on the other you have some of those same extremist fighters and some less-extreme but still religiously motivated factions supported by misguided western nations and oil rich Mid-East benefactors.

Of course they have but what do you expect Assad to do? Shed all his tanks and let extremists simply take over? He has to protect that country for his people whether they like him or not. That is not our decision and we cannot change what the Syrians want him to do. If my country was being overrun by Christian fundamentalists, I would expect my government to eradicate them also. Unless we are living in that country and understand what those people are actually going through, we shouldn't really comment whos right and wrong. The majority want Assad to stay. If they didn't, they would of finished him off a long time ago and he even admits that. All this shows is that the majority are not protesting and are quiet happy with Assad controlling that country. These extremists are only going to help his cause at the next elections also.