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Originally posted by canucks555
It would seem that the majority of ATS would casually walk past a child being beaten senseless. It's not their problem. It's a family issue.
That seems to be the consensus here anyways. And it's their right to share their views, as disturbingly one sided and flawed as they are.
edit on 2-9-2013 by canucks555 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by canucks555
reply to post by justwokeup
Well (imo) you watch them fight until they begin to knock out children.
When that happens you level them. Doesn't matter which side.
edit on 2-9-2013 by canucks555 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by canucks555
reply to post by justwokeup
The pro Assad groups estimate of AQ involvement is exaggerated. While AQ elements are present, some will have you believe that they're running the show. That is false.
That said, it wouldn't be impossible to conceive strikes on the AQ elements as well.
The rebels aren't (imo) solid enough to be trusted yet. Clean them up a bit, and we'll see
"After Bashar falls, I see the FSA battalions dividing into three parts. Some will go home to their previous lives, some will join us in establishing the rule of sharia, and a third part will become a sahwa and turn and fight us."
More feared even than the threat of an "awakening", is the risk of splits among the jihadi fighters themselves. In another part of the eastern countryside, I met a senior al-Nusra commander whose self-confident, jihadi way of speaking deserted him as he pondered the difficulties facing his group.
"I expected clashes with everyone: with the tribes, with the FSA, with anyone," he said. "But with other jihadis? I never thought that day would come."
In what many considered a coup against al-Nusra, the leader of the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida, Abu Bakra al-Baghdadi, declared that he would merge his own organisation with that of his Syrian brothers, under his leadership. The feud that followed was reminiscent of the infighting between warring branches of the Ba'ath party in Iraq and Syria in the 1960s.