I support Syria and Assad

drave said:
as this conflict progressed & reading media reports, i've felt more & more like i was being fed propaganda-- like it was collusive.

it seemed like the rebel gameplan was: "we'll attack, duck into civilian homes, await responses, engage reuters to pen/photograph it, scream for western intervention, rinse & repeat".

i don't know if that's been the reality, but it's seemed that way.
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Terrible feeling isn't it? My approach has been to detox my head by switching-off all media because practically everything is outside my sphere of influence. On the other hand you can't always be indifferent, so I drift back to checking the headlines. It's interesting looking at how other news media report the same situation, e.g. compare Russian Today and CNN on Syria. The truth (if there is such a thing) is in the mix somewhere.
 


WickedLuka said:
False, yeah the west has a lot of influence, BUT the people hate him.
I come from Libya (I'm not Libyan though), born and raised there, and people ALWAYS hated Gadafi, this is a fact you cannot deny. The police was corrupt, people hated him, but they were silent and they didn't tell anybody else, why? Because of fear, you can just report him, the cops will get him and solve the problem. So it took a small spark and everyone rose. Feb 17 was when the revolution started, and I knew that it would start, on Feb 10th or so because all Libyans were talking about it between themselves, the neighboring countries also rose up, so why not Libyans as well?

Libya is much happier without its Dictator right now, people seem to be a lot more happy. Of course there are still a ton of problems to be solve, lots of criminal activity, but it is expected and it is normal for something like this to happen, but the government is acting on all these and it will be solved eventually.

Asad is a retard and deserves to go down, he doesn't own the country, nobody likes him.
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What? Last I read, Libya had the best standard of living in that entire region. Free education, housing, healthcare and all. Well, maybe he ruled with an iron fist but the country was a whole lot better than most other places in that region.
 
I got rid of my TV in 2008. I download a few shows, sans commercials.

I don't read any news sites regularly, and I try not to small talk even with people I know.

There could be a nuclear reactor meltdown, in a tsunami, perpetrated by terrorists, who stole some anthrax and I would be blissfully ignorant of it if not for STS.
 
jacky8 said:
What? Last I read, Libya had the best standard of living in that entire region. Free education, housing, healthcare and all. Well, maybe he ruled with an iron fist but the country was a whole lot better than most other places in that region.
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Exactly, but someone else wanted the oil. Now the scenes are like something out of 'Apocalypse Now'. Hopefully they'll get back on their feet but something tells me they will live in constant turmoil for years, unfortunately.
 
guerilla said:
I got rid of my TV in 2008. I download a few shows, sans commercials.

I don't read any news sites regularly, and I try not to small talk even with people I know.

There could be a nuclear reactor meltdown, in a tsunami, perpetrated by terrorists, who stole some anthrax and I would be blissfully ignorant of it if not for STS.
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This is a good approach. I ditched watching TV a long time ago, I only use it for DVDs now (the best of which lately have been from the USA). I try to keep away from the news, it absorbs a lot of energy just reading, thinking, engaging, but I slip back into it, but it feels like the propaganda of someone else's agenda.

This is off topic but what do you do for a few minutes of distraction, if you want to stay at the PC? I like Urban Dictionary and I follow a couple of YouTube channels, but I'd like to find something relaxing and distracting for those odd moments.
 
jacky8 said:
What? Last I read, Libya had the best standard of living in that entire region. Free education, housing, healthcare and all. Well, maybe he ruled with an iron fist but the country was a whole lot better than most other places in that region.
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Free education - yes, but the education is super bad, can't really call it education.

Healthcare - Yes, it is Free, BUT it's the worst ever, even Libyans don't use it, they travel abroad for their healthcare because the free healthcare here is super bad and can't really call it "care".

Housing , nope, that's a lie.

The stuff that were "Free" in Libya were super low quality and I would not recommend it AT ALL....

Lots of lies about Libya, I even heard stuff like when you marry you get a new house - FALSE. When you get a son/daughter you get $50k - FALSE....



As a foreigner living in Libya, these things did not affect me, it affected Libyans.


But at least what he could do with his unlimited money is, improve Libya, he had SO MUCH Money and look at Libya...... it is complete Sh*t compared to how much he/she makes, and the neighboring countries...
 
wezcountry said:
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i was serious
it was quiet here for 40 years, at least on that border
 
From what I understand Syria and Israel have barely been on speaking terms since the foundation of Israel back in the late 40s. And there's the Hezbollah situation as well. This was underlined for me when I went to get my visa to visit Syria a couple of years ago: I was asked "have you ever visited the occupied territories" and if I had answered 'yes' I would not have received my visa.

If the day-to-day reality was some form of peaceful co-existence then that's great.

I was surprised by your comment though - other Israelis I've met have been hostile to everything Syrian.
 
wezcountry said:
I was surprised by your comment though - other Israelis I've met have been hostile to everything Syrian.
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You met wrong Israelis. Ask everyone here on the streets - we have nothing against Syrian people, Lebanon people, Egyptian people. We want to come visiting great places like Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran, Beirut. But here I told about their people. If we talk however about gov, politicians and muslims, of course we are hostile to people who deny our right to live and their highest goal is to sink Israel in the sea.
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYrebrcA5ck]President Assad speaks to the Syrian News TV (Al-Ikhbaria). - YouTube[/ame]

Hate him as much as you want, but he speaks the truth.
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE2kMWNJomo]The REAL Reason Israel Attacked Syria - YouTube[/ame]
 
i always had some strange wish to be lying in trench, eating shitty canned food and watching drones fly over my head with a nice view on a crimson sky with clouds still remembering a nuke blast. it's so romantic! seems like my dream will soon come true.
 
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