Quote Originally Posted by Deborski View Post
It's interesting because those who are really egging on the fanaticism and the religious warfare are not the Syrians, but jihadists from the surrounding countries who have poured in. At least that is what my Syrian friend tells me. Before all of the warmongers came in, christians and muslims in Syria did not have this level of hostility. I saw an article about this in RT the other day as well, and my Syrian friend said it was spot on.
I just saw the earlier quote from you, about Saudi trying to BRIBE the entire nation of Russia to drop Syria completely, and get some sweet oil deals.
It's a good thing Russia has oil of its own and enough integrity as a nation to decline.

Russia's intervention re the chemical weapons was really impressive.
This might just be the first time in 25 years that the USA faces a nation that can't be brainwashed, bought off, intimidated or ignored as the US pursues its agenda of global domination and picking off anyone who is not willing to be a vassal state one by one. Russia took a lot of flack for it, but it didn't really budge at all and I applaud that. Bashar Al Assad may not be a saint, but as leaders in the Arab world go, I would give him 8/10, and just like in Libya it's a case of "better the devil you know" for the population - total chaos, sectarian war and Western imperialism - or somebody like Assad - try to find an unbiased source and you'll find that he was trying to modernise and bring about social justice while keeping all religions happy. Really you can do a lot worse.

Compare with the vulgar, medieval types that run Saudi while beating their servants, treating their wives as their property, stoning people alive and running the whole country like a medieval monarchy. Not my business but if somebody should complain about regimes in the Middle East it's beyond comprehension that a modern, moderate and enlightened leader like Al-Assad is targetted and the regimes in Saudi and Bahrain are ignored.