How can you compare the two? Forget about people's motives to revolt against Assad (he's corrupt, people had enough etc), can't you see the difference between arming and funding various opposition groups against the government of a sovereign country and supporting the very government? If the US starts funding and arming opposition groups in say Spain to revolt against the government, will you find it strange the Spain's allies in Europe support the government (for obvious reasons from having and following common purposes and fearing a destabilized region among others)?
In this thread, pretty much everyone was against Assad in the beginning. Snoop and Rami were the exceptions, and X was skeptical (he knows what he's talking about, i remember he believed that Syrians are not educated enough to not be manipulated by those who were orchastrating the revolution, and i disagreed mainly because i believed no matter what, Assad had killed so many people he had to go. Turned out he was right). So it's funny to accuse anyone of being pro-Assad here. I now believe everyone got what they were hoping to get. Assad is still there so Iran and Russia are happy, the region is destabilized enough so the US and Israel must also be happy. A few hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and a lot more displaced, but who cares.
The Spain analogy is an extremely poor one that removes context away from the discussion. I know you picked Spain randomly to make a point, but to me it makes a big difference. Spain's leader's are democratically elected, the only source of legitimacy Assad has is power and might. He was not democratically elected, he was not legitimately appointed. His father assumed control of Syria with a military coup and he inherited it to his son.
and yes, it is extremely sad what has happened in Syria. Despite all I am saying right now, I truly do believe it probably would have been better had the revolution not happened at this point of time. The one thing X was definitely right about, is that Arab countries are not ready for the kind of change people were hoping for with the Arab spring, in countries like Syria, Egypt, Libya and others people are just not educated enough to make the kind of changes people were hoping for possible. Look at Libya, we got rid of Geddaffi, but sprung up a bunch of warlords who grew up the "Geddaffi way", instead of having one tyrant, we now have a bunch of tyrants vying for power.
Did you read the links i posted? No revolution 'just' happens
not only that joonam, but in one of the links it says very clearly CIA has been funding and coordinating with opposition groups 5 years before the revolution, the notion that stuff like this is organized organically is naive and silly.
One word: Momentum. The Syrian's would not have revolted against the regime had it not happened in Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian people, the vast majority that took out to the streets were not funded and coordinated by the CIA, that's a preposterous claim, and one that is not supported at all by the links you posted. Maybe the opposition's political elite/militias were funded/armed/supported by the CIA, but not the hundreds of thousands of people that went out to the streets to revolt against the regime, those people were inspired by the revolutions that happened in Egypt and Tunisia.
Unless you believe the whole Arab spring was orchestrated by the CIA, which would be odd, because Mubarak was their staunchest ally in the region, in fact calling him an ally would be an extreme inaccuracy, he was a puppet.
Buy on AliExpress.com
