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Current Events => Terrorism In the US and Around the World => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on June 14, 2013, 11:09:18 AM
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Report: Syrian rebels executed a 14-year-old boy for insulting Islam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/11/report-syrian-rebels-executed-a-14-year-old-boy-for-insulting-islam/
When a 14-year-old boy from the Syrian city of Aleppo named Mohammad Qatta was asked to bring one of his customers some coffee, he reportedly refused, saying, “Even if [Prophet] Mohammed comes back to life, I won’t.â€
According to a story reported by two grassroots Syrian opposition groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Center, Qatta’s words got him killed. A group of Islamist rebels, driving by in a black car, reportedly heard the exchange. They stopped the car, grabbed the boy and took him away.
Qatta, in refusing to serve a customer coffee – it’s not clear why – had used a phrase that the Islamist rebels took as an insult toward the Prophet Mohammed, the most important figure in Islam. That offhand comment, made by a boy, was apparently enough for these rebels to warrant a grisly execution and public warning.
Why should America arm the Syrian rebels???????????
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Report: Syrian rebels executed a 14-year-old boy for insulting Islam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/11/report-syrian-rebels-executed-a-14-year-old-boy-for-insulting-islam/
Why should America arm the Syrian rebels???????????
If you've read the news in the past two years, which you clearly have, you'd know that Syrian Rebels are not some monolithic group. It doesn't make it right, but Assad blows and is quite possibly using chemical weapons. We are the most powerful nation in the world, we cannot just stand idly by as a hundred thousand people have died in a conflict that is people seeking freedom vs people seeking tyranny.
Also, we want to limit our military involvement because there is a trend where involvement in a regime change makes you a target for the opposition which creates a large amount of instability - which is the problem you're trying to solve in the first place.
That's why we should arm Syrian Rebels.
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If you've read the news in the past two years, which you clearly have, you'd know that Syrian Rebels are not some monolithic group. It doesn't make it right, but Assad blows and is quite possibly using chemical weapons. We are the most powerful nation in the world, we cannot just stand idly by as a hundred thousand people have died in a conflict that is people seeking freedom vs people seeking tyranny.
Also, we want to limit our military involvement because there is a trend where involvement in a regime change makes you a target for the opposition which creates a large amount of instability - which is the problem you're trying to solve in the first place.
That's why we should arm Syrian Rebels.
Personally, I don't want this country taking sides in any other country's civil war. Especially countries where both sides are likely to end up as religio-ideological enemies.
If "our" side wins, what have we gained? Not much, I think. If "our' side loses, we lose in the world's eyes no matter how bad things were before.
This view of mine has evolved pretty far from where it was in 1991. When Gulf War I ended without a "permanent" (regime-change) victory, I favored arming anti-Ba'athist and/or Kurdish rebels in Iraq, and (later) anti-Taliban "warlords" in Afghanistan. Now I see that the al-Malaki and Karzai governments are pretty much as unfriendly as ones they supplanted, and about the only benefit gained over the past dozen or so years is that al-Qaeda has been deprived of those two safe havens.
Phukkum today and Nookum if they get froggy later.
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Report: Syrian rebels executed a 14-year-old boy for insulting Islam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/11/report-syrian-rebels-executed-a-14-year-old-boy-for-insulting-islam/
Why should America arm the Syrian rebels???????????
I wouldn't arm them even if Mohammed did come back to life.
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I wouldn't arm them,even especially if Mohammed did come back to life.
Fixt, bro. :II: