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iamntbatman
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 2:14 am 
 

Wow, I knew there were tons of different factions with different goals all falling under the general banner of "rebel" in Syria, but until just now I didn't know how much open conflict there is between these different groups. This BBC map makes it clear how widespread the in-fighting has become:

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AnimeDad
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:39 am 
 

Guess which country I'm crossing off my potential vacation spots!
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~Guest 21181
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:24 am 
 

BarryLamarBonds wrote:
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I honestly hope the rebel alliance don't win this one. Assad's regime is hardly candy and roses, but I bet it's a million miles better than yet another Islamic theocracy. Supreme Overlord Obama will probably arm them, which I'm sure will work out well for America, as history has shown us.

Interview with Assad primarily about Syria's chemical weapons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8aubUmCTh0


The US government has been providing arms and other assistance to the rebels for quite some time.



This isn't actually true. We've provided communications equipment but only very recently started providing arms (like, within the last two weeks). We claimed to be sending them weapons in June but it was a public relations stunt, the rebels never got anything. Most of their weapons from outside sources were given to them by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, possibly Turkey as well.

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~Guest 226319
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 11:37 am 
 

AnimeDad wrote:
Guess which country I'm crossing off my potential vacation spots!

I was also planning a trip to Damascus a couple years ago before hostilities broke out. :|

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BaloroftheEvilEye
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 2:08 pm 
 

I guess this must be Assad day for you, then.

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OneSizeFitzpatrick
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 11:25 am 
 

I've said this before, but goddamnit, it bears repeating, if the CIA is arming rebel factions (and it's most likely that they are) they better be sending the lion's share of support to the Kurds. I remember reading something about the number of Kurdish refugees flooding into Iraq from Syria a while back and some higher ups in the Kurdish political system in Iraq saying basically they want them to stay and fight in Syria because once they leave their ethnic communities in Syria, there's absolutely no chance they'll ever get them back. and looking at that map really drives home that statement, it looks like there's just pockets of ethnic Kurdish settlements left in North Syria.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:30 pm 
 

I doubt it. Most of the support is being channeled through Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Turkey is anti-Kurdish for territorial reasons and many groups the Sauds are backing are anti-Kurdish out of Arab chauvinism.

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failsafeman
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:53 pm 
 

Not exactly on-topic, but the Kurds really deserve their own country somewhere. They're the largest ethnicity without one they can call their own, and they tend to get pushed around pretty badly by the countries they live in.
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somefella
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:52 am 
 

failsafeman wrote:
Not exactly on-topic, but the Kurds really deserve their own country somewhere. They're the largest ethnicity without one they can call their own, and they tend to get pushed around pretty badly by the countries they live in.


This. It's a result of a mix of ethnic and religious differences that results in that, but the technical theology is a little hard to get into. My bandmates are Muslim and have mentioned the reasons before but I don't remember much of it.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:34 am 
 

Erdogan will not knowingly allow arms trading to the opposition to occur alongside his southern border without an explicit promise not to provide weapons to the Kurds.

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OneSizeFitzpatrick
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:42 am 
 

of course Turkey isn't gonna be happy with the Kurds having any kind of leverage in the region (though Iraqi Kurdistan seems to be coming along quite nicely), the Turks don't exactly have a sterling reputation for being humane to ethnic minorities in their country, and the idea of just giving them autonomy in a good chunk of East Turkey is totally out of the question, but if they can keep a decent standing in Iraq and Syria, maybe, just maybe, some day they'll get a state of their own. Trouble is, as with most mountainous people, they're much better at fighting each other than a common enemy.
found a rather entertaining article on why Kurdistan will never be it's own state http://www.exile.ru/print.php?ARTICLE_I ... LOCK_ID=35
and apologies for driving this thread further off into a "free Kurdistan" discussion.
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