Comments on: Islamic State Has Assad, Geopolitics to Thank for Its Survival

By: Robert Bennett

Robert Bennett — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:28:00 +0000

It all started on July 3rd. 1979 when then US president Carter signed an order to supply weapons to religious extremists in Afghanistan.

By: lily

lily — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:54:00 +0000

what did they say about proxy wars? or the war economy/industry? they say, “when elephants fight, it is the grass underneath that gets trampled upon”.

By: kunta88888

kunta88888 — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 02:38:00 +0000

Are you kidding-who funded the Taliban-alias Muhajeeden against the Russians? The whole region has been interfered with by the West for decades-democracy was rolled back-see Baharain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia-Egypt -military junta-Jordan……the West created a monster that have now home grown radicals…whose fault is this? Just thought I will put it there for discussion. Why look at Syria-dictatorship….look at the whole region-are some dictators okay? and why? The writer is totally CONFUSED>

By: DB

DB — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 02:05:00 +0000

Many mentions of how “regional players” are using, and will continue to use IS as a “tool”, simultaneously, and abhorrently ignoring the fact that while that continues; thousands of people are dying, and will die in the most vicious ways possible.

If al Assad falls the entire region continues to burn because it will be replaced with a Sunni power. Sunni’s (assisted by the US) are the number 1 destabilising factor in the Middle East. Obviously they are concerned that their influence is waning, this is because they have treated non-Sunni’s and the Middle East with utter contempt for decades.

There are no good outcomes with the current crises going on in the Middle East/North Africa in general, Syria/Iraq in particular. But allowing continued Sunni hegemony is the worst of bad choices. Balance must be maintained. Toppling Assad is not the way to do that, and the US knows this but continues to woo it’s Saudi (Qatari, and Turkish) “allies” because a destabilised region continues to profit the US war machine.

All the while; many, many more people are killed by US created, funded, and protected Islamic State.

By: 101Truth101

101Truth101 — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 01:34:00 +0000

Assad would have done okay, if not for policies of USA’s govt. Same case with Libya, etc. Now, who to blame? The American Empire is going down, and it doesn’t care who or what goes down with it. That’s supreme greed.

By: Ruaridh MacFergus

Ruaridh MacFergus — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:19:00 +0000

Syrian government has had channels for negotiations since the start, how can the Syrian government champion peace when the United States delegates walks out of UN meetings when the Syrian government representative tries to get his point across? Syrian Army still has 170,000 active personnel, 80,000+ in the volunteer national defense force, backing from BRICS countries, military support from Iran. How can the Syrian government possibly negotiate peace with a bunch of head chopping murderous thugs and the Gulf dictatorships supporting them, who themselves are head chopping murdering thugs?

There is a massive propaganda war against the Syrian state.