Syrian Resolution - I Call It!!!!

[The Dude]

[Demosthenes]

[The Comrade]

[PoS]

No, youve been saying that the Jihadists and hardcore Islamists comprise only a small faction with the entire rebel movement. This as well as the other numerous articles already cited states you are wrong. Stop moving the goalposts and trying to weasel your way out again.

[Demosthenes]

Don't be stupid, your arguments for the past seven pages have been based on the rebels being mostly moderate. When in fact the opposite is true, yes some of the moderates are clashing with the hardliners but the reality is this is a rebel force made up of a lot of hardliners. So you can drop your objection to the rebelsnot being at least 50% hardliner.

[The Comrade]

[The Comrade]

[Lobster]

Of course the majority of them are not moderates. Only someone who thinks a foreign civil war is a perfect opportunity to demonstrate how tolerant and multicultural they are to their own satisfaction would think the rebels are not overwhelmingly religious fanatics. Then again, so are Assad's military. The secular, pan-arab communists are a thing of the past. No matter how longingly idiots like Dharma would like to think so, no anti-capitalist, anarcho, communist, socialist or whatever wetdream is going to emerge from this. You'd have to be either completely ignorant of the situation or completely blinded by ideological dogma not to see this. No matter who wins, first order of business will be ethnic/religious purges. Largely because the conflict is ethnic/religious in the first place.
Rebel groups are imploding anyways, the jihadi terrorists who were always the largest factions have been openly killing "secular" (hahahaha) FSA for a while now. Nonwithstanding NATO intervention, it looks like Assad is going to remain in power.

[The Dharma Bum]

It seems like you are saying that Muslims simply do not have the ability to realize a functional society.

I have to disagree with that assessment and can cite many examples to the contrary.

[The Dharma Bum]

BTW, lob, do you come from a Muslim background?