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What hub bub who cares
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No body that's the point
Apparently, the rebels have been busy doing some justice the democratic way - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GCAVzkIrb48&bpctr...
The original source comes from French newspaper - http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2012/08/02/01003-20120802ARTFIG0030...
The credibility of Russia and China as a major world powers is at stake in Syria with the Islamists such as the Al Qaeda joining the Western and Arab League countries for a regime change in Damascus.
Creditability with just who??
World community.
Your assuming that they think like you they don't
This is a well played Regime Change 101. Sooner or later the Obama administration will start supplying these freedom loving "rebels" with arms and other technology. Oh wait - http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/01/us/syria-rebels-us-aid/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
And once the election is over in November, provided Obama wins, I think there may be some sort of small scale invasion type of deal.
Another sign that the so called rebels are not Syrians and don't give a toss about civilian lives: there is a breaking news on Google about a northern town (may be the same, I missed the name) where a huge army convoy was passing by without paying hostile attention to the locals.
The "rebels" attacked it, killed several soldiers and withdrew among the population. Then the convoy retaliated - and of course it was civilians, not armed terrorists with their typical provocative tactics, who have fallen victims.
Yes, it's a well-known Maoist strategy called "Shining Path." Attack the authorities in order to enrage them into committing acts of brutality on the populace, thereby expanding your support base. The Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path in Spanish) used this strategy to great effect in Peru. And yes, that does sound like something al qaida would get up to.
On a rather less weighty note than most of the comments below-
What is that hand gesture the guy on the motorcycle is making? Is that the peace sign? V for victory? Something else?
He's the future Syrian Churchill, obviously.
Perhaps a "Hello!"
Perhaps he's doing a "vote for Nixon"...
THANK YOU ECONOMIST for covering the truth about the butchers of Syria -the assad gang-.
they first called him ; "reformer"
they called his wife ; "rose of the desert"! (gold digger, social climber). Both names were a paid PR , I can`t wait till the biggist 2 lie of all crumble too ,,, it is :......the minorities PROTECTOR , and THE "secular" ( with Hisballa and the Ayatoolas of the Islamic republic are the ones who are fighting with him .
How nice of you to wait all those nice things to happen to your fellow Syrians lolling on your coach in Canada. What a patriot!
what a pity
the guys are bleeding!
I think a No-Fly Zone over Syria should be enacted by the United States and European powers.
A no-fly zone would be helpful, but not an end-all-be-all. Assad's using (per, if nothing else, the article) all sorts of ground forces to crush the rebellion- and lots of civilians along with it.
A no-fly, no-drive, no-walk zone is needed, probably along the Turkish border.
Syria is a hard sanctioned country..it is a No Fly zone, I work in Intertional Aviation and we can't even communicate with companies that have anything to do with Syria.
And then comes an overthrow.
They have done too many operations on other countries.
The Iraq is still bleeding.
Afghan is still in turbulance.
Why not wait and check for a while then manage one after another?
Syria is now a complete mess and there is no question that the Assad regime is mostly to blame. By responding to peaceful demonstrations with violence instead of negotiating it has created a civil war and opening for foreign terrorists to pour in to support the uprising.The regime now finds itself in a situation where it cannot give in as
bloody reprisals are sure to follow. Nor can it stay in power indefinitely without completely ruining the country, no matter how hard they hit the opposition it will not go away as long as there are Sunni
Syrians left, which is the majority of the population. It is hard to see a good end to this conflict without strong intervention from outside powers. But the US does not have the stomach for another Iraq like venture and will certainly not intervene, and neither will any Western country. The rest of the world as usual will sit on its hands.
"But the US does not have the stomach for another Iraq like venture and will certainly not intervene..."
Definitely not until after next January (it's an election year, after all). I doubt Obama will authorize any sort of major intervention*. Romney has suggested he might do something in the way of intervention, but that might just be pre-election posturing.
Stomach or not, the US shouldn't interfere in Syria in no circumstances. Leave them alone to resolve their problems and to replace one tyranny with another.
Because that what will happen anyway - look what kind of "democracy" (LOL!) replaced Saddam, Gaddafi, Mubarak etc. So why waste human lives and resources when the result will be the same?
Dysfunctional democracies. What do you expect? They held their first elections less than 2 years ago. Can you find a single current democracy without dysfunction in its early history?
That dysfunctional, dysfunctional they are. But what democratic do you perceive in their dysfunctionality?
With the exception of Egypt's weird situation (the military quasi-coup... thing) most of them have held, or plan to hold, free and open elections.
Free and open elections by themselves don't constitute democracy, but they're a good start.
Agree. They're a good start for virtually anything. And in Arab countries... or enclaves, like Gaza, they tend to be held once. When the one (man or organization) who should be elected - is elected. Then they (elections) are redundant. Examples abundant.
Right now all good men (and the western media) are siding whole-heartedly with the rebels. But this is the middle east, and there are no white hats in this conflict. If and when the sunnis take power, there is going to be a village-to-village and neighborhood-to-neighborhood payback against the infidel alawis, and when that's finished the sunnis will turn on the infidel christians, who also supported Assad, and then they'll turn on each other. Or we might have scenario B, in which this all happens at the same time, in a gentle epiphany of spiritual grace and body parts so common to this part of the world.
And there is a part in the future scenarios which was checked in the fight for the town of Azaz, not by incident situated right on the Turkish border: 'disinterested' and 'selfless' assistance from the Erdogan's Islamist regime. Not a word about that from the Economist?
Note also that Syrian general Abdul Karim al-Ahmed prefers to pontificate from a safe house across the border in Turkey instead of assisting his fellow oppressed countrymen. What a valiant Mohammedan warrior!
As a former avid reading of The Economists, I stopped wasting my time when this publication failed to see and alert us to the economic peril that was headed our way in 2006-2007.
Now that I go back and occasionally read an issue here and there, the wisdom of having discovered a better use of my time (the most precious thing I have on this planet), is re-inforced. The relative difference in wealth in only one of the many cultural differences between the Israelis and Palestinians. Having represented numerous members of both groups in a multitude of businesses in the U.S. and elsewhere, it is clear that one was born into a society of wanting to make a profit in the world, and the other into a culture wanting to occupy the world for non-monetary reasons. The irony is that once they get to America, and under the pressures of creating and running a business, they are so identical that it is hard for most people to tell them apart.
As long as you (The Economists) and other so-called "world leaders" of thought, keep handing out "birth status" as a justifiable excuse for failure, you're going to have failure. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. As Henry Ford was fond of saying, "The guy who argues for his own limitations, always wins!"
The core definitions of success, wealth, life's purpose, etc. are cultural differences and as such, can be overcome. All it takes is a shift in paradigm and motivation.
Now that I've taken a break from The Economists for a while, I can see more clearly that as an "excuse maker" it is far less sophisticated than I once gave it credit for. As a corporate defense litigator, I'm really good at making excuses, e.g. the liability-producing event didn't really happen, my client didn't do it, if my client did it, someone else made him do it (i.e., the devil); or, it just all a big misunderstanding. Not so easy (as it requires far more intelligence and dedication to success) is taking responsible and actually changing a situation.
I would love to see The Economists change its policy and stop encouraging people to buy into the "excuse machine". We'd all be more profitable and peaceful creating a kind of place where I'd like to raise my kids.
Thanks for this opportunity.
Joe Reisinge
Now that you've stopped wasting your time, I wish you'd stop wasting ours. But thanks for the pious regurgitation of the meaning of life according to Joe. Next to yourself, we're your biggest admirers.
What did this have to do with the article?
Here's a tip: If you want to get it right, choose the side Uncle Sam and the Fourth Estate see as a villain, and presto, you've chosen the good guy.
What surprises me (as a continental European it really shouldn't though) is that after a century of never getting it right, exemplified by America's unnecessary involvement in the First World War or the disasters in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan Uncle Sam is still a naïve and helpless giant being manipulated by Saudi money and Israeli threats.
So-called Syrian protesters are Sunni mercenaries and al-Qaeda professionals working for Saudi money—the same Saudi money that paid for 9/11 and killed thousands of Americans.
Yet you silly anglos are all het up again, now about Assad whilst Saudi Arabia's tanks are crushing everything in its way in Bahrain and its money is killing thousands upon thousand of black Africans in Sudan.
Thus, just, for once, take the the rising Chinese Empire as an example, try not to go completely bankrupt and watch how things will work its way out in Syria.
Both sides are bad, but the worst are the rebels. Many are foreign to Syria, and include Al Qaida. The rebels are slaughtering Alawite Muslims and Christians.
In the west, both the main stream media, which is typically left, and the few right wing media, like Fox News, are in lock step with their propaganda preparing the American and Western European people for war with Syria and Iran. The first step is to demonize your enemy.
"America's unnecessary involvement in the First World War . . . "
The bloodiest war the human race had ever seen, deadlocked in stalemate, ended within months after the American Expeditionary Force entered combat in 1918. I don't know who taught you your history, but you need to ask for your money back. And the rest of your argument has even greater merit.
Another Silly Anglo
You're right in your assessment of Mr Evelyn... sorry, BretEaston Waugh's argument. Just let me add that he wisely omits the US participation in WW II which unnecessarily saved "continental Europeans" collective sad ass. First, from Nazis; second, from Commies.
Thanks, RP. What you say is quite true, and I believe is much of the reason for Europe's rabid anti-americanism.
Yes you are probably right, entering the war and helping bring about Versailles and everything it entailed, was truly a grandiose idea.
By the way, thanks for making my point.
Versailles is in some way connected to the World War II... but was it solely a making of the 'naive' Americans?
Never mind. Always ready to make a fellow armchair strategist's point.
Well, I can understand them the Europeans to some extend. They were so eager to have a socialist republic, what with the Popular Front, National Socialist Workers' Party and all mighty trade unions in Mussolini's Italy... and inter-Left carnage in Spain.
And then come those 'naive' Yanks and spoil the proletarian triumph.
So now they are busy bringing another totalitarian system on themselves - a Caliphate. If Americans stop them, it's a good cause for anti-Americanism. If they don't - even better one. Win-win situation.
It cannot be clearer that you do not even have rudimentary knowledge of modern history. Versailles was America's fault? How? Why?
Too right, and thats why the US is first to the war these days. Its just trying to make-up for the fact that it turned up so horribly late for the WWI & II.
Thankfully it no longer needs to see which way the wind is blowing before rushing in, instead of just being content with profiting from the sidelines selling arms and assistance to the beleagured democracies.
You are aware that Jingoistic propaganda and the study of history aren't the same thing.
Duplicate removed.
Team America, FK yeah!
The Death camps had specifc colour coded triangles for the tunics of Leftists and Communists but curiously not for the right.
For a bunch of Lefty Socialists this surely must have been due to a bureaucratic mix up.
Fortunately for them however, they were all on tour in France, the Urals and North Africa with the SS.
I know that in the current US Con's meme the definition of Socialism is now any thing Un-American, such as foriegners and half of all Americans, but characterising the NAZIS as European Socialists is just wing nut territory.
You mean the well organized Nazi (National SOCIALIST WORKER'S party) death camps?
How about more soulful, though chaotic, communist ones? Did Pol Pot has special designations for different kinds of soon to become cadavers? Or Stalin? Or Mao? Or Ho?
Yeah, Leftists come in different shapes, but they're really same poisonous shit, no?
Are you nostalgic of 'Ordnung'?
The Nazis were called National Socialists at one point, and they weren't exactly the most avid supporters of a free market.
Now, characterizing the Nazis as European socialists is sort of weird (whatever modern-day "European socialism" looks like, it's not Nazi Germany) but it's an understandable error.
No, it's not an error at all.
At the times of Nazi Party people called things straight: when they said "gay" they meant "merry, cheerful", not homosexual; when they said "national socialism" they meant socialism where the issue of class was replaced by the issue of ethnicity - but socialism nevertheless.
Now armed with surface to air missiles and tanks supplied by the Turks, the terrorists will become invincible because they know they will have 72 virgins promised by the Hegemon and the Wahabbi in paradise.
Tanks? Source?
Yes, but I'd also like to know what took out 27 tanks. Going by the accompanying picture to the article it wasn't small arms fire.
If the Mosque in the background is the one reffered to as State controlled, what then tookout the minarets?
Do you ever get the feeling you're not getting the entire story.
My guess is that the tanks and minarets were probably taken out by some sort of rocket launcher. (I'm not an expert. I'm going with "rocket launcher".)
I suppose tanks aren't out of the question but it seems unlikely.
"Do you ever get the feeling you're not getting the entire story."
Often, actually.
Answer to all your questions is Erdogan... not exactly Ataturk, but at least üvey baba of the nation.
And you're right - you often get the whole story, and it's all bullshit.
The rebels are pretty ingenious. They're using diesel and chemical fertilizer packed into natural gas cannisters to make bombs more than powerful enough to destroy a tank. When tanks are in a built-up town environment, to deliver the bomb all you have to do is shoot the guy up on the turret and any surrounding foot soldiers, and then approach the tank from the blind side.
At least that's how we did it when I was a Man U supporter.
I meant that often I don't get the whole story.
tips for Assad...
1st- NEVER LISTEN TO RUSSIA
2nd- forget cities, protect money (natural resources in the east of the country)
3rd- if all else fails, involve Israel to confuse your enemies. give chemical weapons to terrorists willing to use them on israel or something similar.
4th- Grow a beard, fill two suitcases with money (not too much!), and forget the first 50 years of your life. Make up new name. Pick a real quiet spot and dont do much till the end of your days.
He should about forget a Soviet style conventional war against the Hegemon to hold on the cities. Only by using the famous Mao's war strategies, his more secular Baath supporters and other Alawites, Christians and Shias can surround the bigger enemies in the city. The long March and the strategic retreat to the Alawite heartland is the first step to victory.
America did not lose Iraq.
They used kid gloves around Mosques even though these were used for sniper rests, munitions factories and barracks.
Every civilian death was criticized and protested.
Innocent Muslim life was sacrosanct.
And terrorism was endorsed by the population as a means of revenge against the infidels.
It was a Holy War. A obligatory Jihad fought by all good Muslims.
In the Middle East, there is a of deep history of tribalism and sectarianisn that leads to violence, brutality, and revenge. And the revenge will continue in the post war period for generations. Like herpes, bombs lead to more bombs.
America did not lose Iraq. Iraq could only be tamed by a Stalin dictator, with nationwide secret police, special techniques for torture, and blood lust that can only be achieved by organized state terrorism.
Syria is no different from Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Libya and Iran.
When the dictator is deposed, Pandora's Box is unleashed. Anarchic terrorists are small-fry amateurs compared to the state, which has decades of torture experience, instituionalized organization, and the best weapons money can buy. Udday Hussein ran his father's torture chamber and he enjoyed his work.
In a region of State Sponsored Terror, Ossama bin Ladin is seen as a pure-hearted liberating figure. He lived in a tent in the desert. Prayed 4 times a day. Kept a herd of camels. Wore a long Muhummed beard.
Like Simon Bolivar but with a sociopathic Charles Manson streak.
America is naive to think Democracy is the panacea to the region. A millenium of Islam has shaped the region, the values and the people. And Democracy is not in the Koran. Modernity is not in the Koran. But neither is Petroleum.
Possibly the best historic solution is modern Turkey. 20 years of a brutal, but enlightened dictator with firm principles of secularism, militarism and separation of religion and state. After a few generations with deep institutional education programs, the values held. And after 50 years, democracy reforms were introduced but Islam again reasserts itself at the Party level, oppsed by the Army. Market economy is healthy despite the sick man of Europe next door. And Jihadi separatist terror recurrs like the heart break of psoriasis.
But Turkey is the only Muslim nation which has successfully negotiated Modernity, Democracy and Globalism. Arabs would do well to study it, but there is long continued animosity of the Ottoman Turk Empire from a century ago.
America is naive when it thinks Democracy is a pancea to the region. Iraq is not Vichy France, Imperial Japan or Post Hitler Germany. Islam has shaped the region, the values and the politics for a millenium. The people are more tribal than the Apaches. And revenge streaks are Hattfields vs McCoys on steroids. And the greatest enemy of a Muslim is a Muslim from a rival sect.
America did not lose Iraq. They just do not have the attention and time to devote to a reform process that does not take years or decades but a good part of a 50 years. And to deal with resentment and a guerilla insurgency that may last a century. And backing a Stalinist regime while effective, is too hot for to handle for a Western Democracy.
America did not lose Iraq. It is a Pandora's Box capped with a mad dictator. And someone ws bound to open it. Syria will open without America's help.
If you think about it the issues you raise are universal to we humans and not uniquely Muslim. After 147 years the U.S. is still not fully healed from its North-South split and the awful legacy of slavery. Europe likewise struggles to move into a future that will make less likely the carnage and madness of the last century. The truth is that people do not change much until enough time passes that the people are replaced by those who don't remember why killing was the only choice.
it will take two centuries about four generations for the region to mature.
You say, Europe likewise struggles to move into a future that will make less likely the carnage and madness of the last century.
And how does Europe go after that goal?
Allowing unrestricted Mohammedan immigration, which will replace "carnage and madness of the last century" with those of the 7th century Orient?
"America did not lose Iraq. Iraq could only be tamed by a Stalin dictator, with nationwide secret police, special techniques for torture, and blood lust that can only be achieved by organized state terrorism."
At least you have no illusions about the nature of the dictators in the region, but I think you err in supposing that they're necessary. Well, we'll see in a few years.
After 300 years, the Queen shook hands with a Feinian terrorist.
"it will take two centuries about four generations for the region to mature."
Naw. Global warming = increased extreme weather events = widespread third-world famine. Then add in the replacement of petroleum as a transportation fuel with hydrogen and battery-powered cars, and the strategically important middle east becomes a whole lot of dry sand with little ability to support current population levels. There's going to be a major die-off in the region when Europe panics and begins using its military to defend its borders against hordes of starving refugees. And then a return to the good old days - a thinly populated region of local war lords and robber barons, with no one elsewhere paying much attention.
Not healed from the North-South split? Really? Beyond the occasional "Rebels" mascot, I can't see how that's true. Not like the South still has Dixie guerillas killing U.S. soldiers or anything...
Nope, no Dixie guerillas. But you look at who is leading the Republican Party these days, with its demonizaation of the Federal government, what do you see? A pretty straight line, philosophically and even geographically. No, definitely not healed yet.
Considering the South was populated by small government radicals before the war, I'd hardly call this a divide caused by the war that hasn't healed yet. They were preaching small government during Jefferson's time, during Jackson's time, and during Reagan's time. This isn't caused by the war; quite the opposite. The Republican Democrat's (later the Democrat's) espousal of small government entwined with white supremacy is hardly a post-1865 development.
Nor is there a straight line. If there was, there wouldn't have been a Republican Presidency in living memory; there aren't nearly enough electoral votes in the old Confederacy to win. Heck, just the non-Confederate east coast states + California have more electoral votes than the old Confederacy... To call the current political divide a by-product of the Civil War is oversimplification at the very least. After all, if Civil War divisions were still the deciding factor, why has Ohio (birthplace of Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan) gone GOP so often? Why is West Virginia safer for the Republicans than Virginia?
Not a straight line?
Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act. Nixon comes up with his "Southern Strategy," and with that encouragement the Southern Democrats desert the Democratic Party for the Republicans. (Which is why there have been Republican Presidents in our lifetimes. Indeed, it may be noteworthy that, until Obama, the only Democratic Presidents since the mid-1960s and the Civil Rights Act had been from southern states.) Pretty straight line.
The South remains a one-party area for all practical purposes, so they build up seniority in Congress -- and keep pushing anti-Federal government. It is, as you say, a constant in their world view. But while it may be a cause, rather than a result, of the Civil War, it was certainly reinforced by the war and by Reconstruction. At it is still a wound that has not healed.
Is a majority of the American South small-government conservatives? Undoubtedly. Are small-government conservatives limited to the South? Not at all.
The small-government folks were always a majority of the electorate in the South, as well as in areas settled by Southerners(the "butternuts" who settled the area just north of the Ohio river, for example). In the last century, that mindset has also become dominant through most of the great plains and West (barring the West Coast itself, of course) as well. This isn't a reflection of deep-seated sympathy with the Confederacy throughout the central and western United States, but a reflection of a very real divide within American political ideology. There are small-government rednecks in central Pennsylvania and there are big-government liberals in Alabama. Neither are accused of betraying their regions interests in the way that dissenters from the majority would have been in the lead up to the war. Considering that we're VASTLY less regional than we were before the Civil War, it's hard to argue that we're still healing the wounds of the War. Politicians sometimes say things like that, but that's just a nice way to pretend that America's racism issues were limited to south of the Potomac, something particularly useful when (as LBJ did) you're trying to get privately racist Northern Republicans to vote for Civil Rights bills....
After all, Tories are quite a bit rarer in Yorkshire than Democrats are in Mississippi, but that doesn't mean Northern England hasn't healed its wounds from the English Civil War (and the Long Parliament abolishing the Council of the North). It just means blue-collar folks in working-class towns tend to vote Labour.
While the Southern states were the ones which actually secceeded, there were sympathizers in all parts of the country. Just as there were southern states (notably Tennessee) which had signifcant numbers in the armies of both sides.
Yes, there is a divide amongst those of us (and I am personally one) who prefer smaller government vs those who prefer that the government get more involved. But to ignore the significant factor of the old wound of the Civil War in leading to the positions of today's Republican Party is to be willfully blind to history. In my opinion, of course.
So.... Nebraska reliably votes for small-government Republicans these days because it's filled with confederate sympathizers? Really?
Again, you haven't shown any element of today's political debate which is actually shaped by "the old wound of the Civil War". The causes the South fought for (in descending order of importance); the perpetuation and expansion of slavery, the preservation of white supremacy, and the maintenance of state supremacy over the power of the Federal Government, all these causes are so dead as to not even be part of the political discussion except among the most extremist on the right. (many may claim they support old-school states rights, but not many really do. I don't see a lot of people clamoring for the Supreme Court to lose its ability to enforce First Amendment rights against states, let alone Second Amendment rights. As a reminder, before the 14th Amendment the Bill of Rights did not apply to the States, but only to the Feds. Only with substantive due process did this change....) Even nasty old racists like Strom Thurmond weren't talking about these causes any more by the time he died. That ship has sailed. The legacy of racism is still with us (throughout the country), but the Civil War is NOT a political dividing point in this country. Yes, you'll see more people claiming the South was right (or, stupidly, that the war wasn't about slavery) among southern conservatives, but that's besides the point; you'll see more resistance to basic biological concepts like evolution among those people, too. That doesn't mean that the country is still healing from the wounds of the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Sure, Nebraska (and a chunk of the farm belt and mountain states) tend Republican. But they are willing to vote for mildly conservative Republicans (or even for mildly conservative Democrats), rather than insisting strictly on radical "destroy the government and to hell with the country" types. Which is what we see out of the South.
Yes, the worst of the racism is gone, witness the Republican governors of Louisiana and South Carolina. But that isn't the part of the wound that is not yet healed. (And I note that Southerners, and those descended from them who have moved elsewhere, are for more likely to embrace the "Obama is evil, adn Muslim, and born elsewhere" nonsense than conservatives in the Midwest or Mountain states. Maybe that has non-racist roots, but I'm not sure what else it might be.)
Yes, lots of people in the South love the Second Amendment and like the Supreme Court enforcing it; the Tenth Amendment, too. Hey, they want the government to do more to deal with (especially illegal) immigration. But slashing the budget items that do those things doesn't seem to bother them in the slightest -- because anything except the military (and Social Security and Medicare) is rampant big government and evil. They'd rather ignore the reality of where Federal budget dollars go than accept that.
And claims that the Civil War was not about slavery are not irrelevant. Because, having accepted that slavery was wrong, the Civil War being about something else allows Southern conservatives to believe that their ancestors were not really wrong when they fought it. Which isn't what the rest of the country believes.
The question that needs asking is not whether the Assad regime will last, but what will replace it?
So far the "rebels" have won the support of the Western media. Yet they display just as much willingness to execute their captives as the regime. They also seem to be led by nobody despite being so well armed and apparently successful.
While I have no love for the Assad regime, I worry that what will emerge after its passing is a chaotic and desperate ethnic cleansing the likes of what has been seen in the past in Lebanon and Iraq.
an excellent point that hasn't really been talked about enough. What will the rebel government look like and how much different will it be from the current government?
How well can a new Sunni government manage governing Alawite and Kurdish minorities? That is the biggest question. Although forming a Kurdish state would be difficult given the fact that 4 countries would have to cede valuable land (it has oil), forming separate Alawite, Kurdish, and Sunni states out of what is now Syria may prove to be a better solution. It could prevent the type of ethnic clensing we saw in the Balkans, Iraq, and Lebanon by forcing each group to focus on nation building and not securing power from rival sectarian groups.
The problem is the Kurdish portion of that type of plan. If they are forming new states out of Syria, the Kurds will want one. This could ignite uprisings in the Kurdish portions of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. That leads to a more unpredictable and destabilizing outcome than the current situation.
Just food for thought, feel free to intelligently pick away at it.
Perhaps a full state for the Syrian Kurds is not practical now, something similar to what the Kurds have in Irak will do the job.
The big opportunity will come when the US and Iran go to war, then Kurdish should unite and fight to death for their country. Only a Syrian-Iraky-Irany kurdish conglomerate may be strong enough to face Turkey
"Perhaps a full state for the Syrian Kurds is not practical now, something similar to what the Kurds have in Irak will do the job."
That does sound more practical, but that doesn't take into account the part where the FSA may execute civilians and discriminate against a large, hostile minority group.
"The big opportunity will come when the US and Iran go to war, then Kurdish should unite and fight to death for their country." I don't think the US will go to war with Iran until they have to, but I do think the Israelis will launch a first strike against Iran at some point. The Israelis would be wise to wait until Syria is resolved though, otherwise they could find themselves with 2 messes on their hands depending on the results in Syria.
"That does sound more practical, but that doesn't take into account the part where the FSA may execute civilians and discriminate against a large, hostile minority group."
Leverage. Some set of countries (probably including NATO and possibly some combination of members of the Arab League) should start to intervene in some major way- supplies, airstrikes, safe zones, etc. Of course, gratitude only goes so far, but let me go on.
Post-Assad Syria should be offered substantial economic aid (say, 120 billion over six years) in exchange for doing things like holding fair and open elections, maintaining a fairly non-discriminatory government, etc.
A program like this would probably give Syria the best chance of re-forming itself as a reasonably well-functioning society, but barring major changes in the situation (e.g. use of chemical weapons) I don't see it happening.
"The problem is the Kurdish portion of that type of plan. If they are forming new states out of Syria, the Kurds will want one. This could ignite uprisings in the Kurdish portions of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran."
I read somewhere that Kurds are among the most pro-American people on the planet. As frequent readers of my posts will expect, I'm now rather enthusiastic about the idea of an independent Kurdish state...
It can be our 52nd state! (We'll be taking over Canada beforehand. You know us Americans, we love that oil)
/totally not serious
"Post-Assad Syria should be offered substantial economic aid (say, 120 billion over six years) in exchange for doing things like holding fair and open elections, maintaining a fairly non-discriminatory government, etc."
We need to see who is in that new government before we just hand them a lot of money in aid. If the government is full of anti-western, anti-Israel, jihadist elements then there is no way we should give them a dime.
"It can be our 52nd state! (We'll be taking over Canada beforehand. You know us Americans, we love that oil)
/totally not serious"
but Syria is 32nd in oil production and 32nd in proven oil reserves so it makes no sense to annex Syria for oil even though it is in the ME. That's like buying a taco salad cus it sounds about right for healthy, even though taco salads have a bazillion calories lol.
"totally not serious"
That's OK. You're American, so you'll be hated anyways. After soccer, it's the rest of the world's most popular sport.
"That's OK. You're American, so you'll be hated anyways. After soccer, it's the rest of the world's most popular sport."
"totally not serious"
I'm gonna go wait for the rest of the world to stop hating us while I clean all the guns in my truck. Then we can go to Mcdonalds and drink all the sweet tea and eat all the 59cent cheeseburgers we can shove down our fat throats.
We can certainly worry about, or even just think about, what kind of regime will arise after Assad. What we have no realistic ability to do is determine what it will be like. Nor whether Assad will go.
He will go. Something will arise after him. Chances are excellent that it will not be exactly what we would wish. Such is the reality of the world. On the other hand, it will likely be a step up from the Assad regime. For the Syrians, and for their neighbors.
"We need to see who is in that new government before we just hand them a lot of money in aid."
Well, yeah. I should have specified that.
Another thing, I was actually (although facetiously) proposing annexing Canada, and then maybe Kurdistan if they're interested.
Hopefully the FSA can wrap up this conflict quickly and before Assad realizes he has no chance. Desperate people have been known to do desperate things, and Assad's chemical weapons come to mind as a weapon of last resort. Even though Assad claims he would only use those chemical weapons on foreign intervention forces it is not out of the question for him to use them on the FSA and civilians when he realizes he has no chance. That would be the worst outcome for the world, because then there is no question that the US, NATO, and Israel have to intervene.
As an American I would prefer not to send our soldiers overseas to fight somebody else's civil war based on the current situation. I feel like diplomatic and covert action should be enough to help the FSA take down an already faltering government. When chemical weapons are being used on civilians, that's where I think the mindset has to switch from let them fight their own civil war to greater good of humanity type thinking. Our men and women volunteer to be in the military and to be in harms way, and the military is supposed to be the option of last resort. However, I believe the use of WMDs (biological, chemcial, and nuclear) opens the door to use that option.
all intelligent commments and debate topics are welcome. Please do not turn this into Israel/US/NATO bashing. It is one thing to disagree with a post because you think it doesn't make sense, it is another to disapprove because you believe the US is attempting to take over the world using its evil octopus tentacles.
Given the strength of the opposition movement, it seems that a simple Libya-style bombing campaign (on aircraft, tanks and artilary) would be enough to dislodge Assad from power. As much for the morale boost to rebels and defections as for the actual tactical improvement. Perhaps Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia could do the honor.
Your concerns about chemical weapons are most pressing - but there isn't much to be done there (other than, as you say, to accelerate the downfall).
who isnt trying to take over the world? =P
That being said, if chemical weapons are being used internally I imagine that NATO would intervene. I dont think any country in the middle east wants those chemical weapons (even though they are probabably low grade and ineffective) in the wrong hands. Not sure Syria even has an effective stockpile of chemical weapons or if that was just posturing to put up a front against Israel, but what would I know?
Honestly, if Assad really wanted to turn the middle eaast upside down (seeing as he is going to get removed from power anyway), he could hand over chemical weapons to terrorist groups and had them attack Israel. I dont know what the FSA would do if Israel was at war with Syria. The whole NATO-FSA "alliance" would probably be broken too. Arabic countries would then have a dilemma, do they support Syria against Israel? Or do they support Israel against Assad?
That would have insured all hell breaking loose and maybe Assad could escape with a briefcaase or two full of money. All in all, Assad is RETARDED for ever listening to Russia and this should be a lesson to any of Russia's "allies" that you will be used and discarded.
"That being said, if chemical weapons are being used internally I imagine that NATO would intervene. I dont think any country in the middle east wants those chemical weapons (even though they are probabably low grade and ineffective) in the wrong hands"
Using those weapons opens up Syria for both a regional and international intervention. Other nations in the region would have to prepare in the event the wind carries the weapon over their airspace and into their cities. I don't think I need to explain the international intervening forces that would be involved like NATO and the UN.
"Honestly, if Assad really wanted to turn the middle eaast upside down (seeing as he is going to get removed from power anyway), he could hand over chemical weapons to terrorist groups and had them attack Israel. I dont know what the FSA would do if Israel was at war with Syria. The whole NATO-FSA "alliance" would probably be broken too. Arabic countries would then have a dilemma, do they support Syria against Israel? Or do they support Israel against Assad?"
That is truly a nightmare scenario because it could actually bring about the beginning of WW3 if enough oil suppliers aligned against the NATO/Israel Coalition.
"All in all, Assad is RETARDED for ever listening to Russia and this should be a lesson to any of Russia's "allies" that you will be used and discarded."
yeh that sounds about right for Russians and Syrians lol.
But what gives us outside the right to pick a winner in Syria?
Who will we kill with our drones and cost free war to engineer a better country?
Assad and his regime are violent thugs but simply pulling Syria asunder is the easy part-what will follow without an enormous military occupation which no outside nation has the stomach or support for will be completely unscripted and must follow the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Syrias collapse will destabilise every country on its borders for years, no one can want that result.
Prescribing sectarian division is madness, the Arab world has spent a century trying to emerge into the modern world, a secular state must emerge, not the opposite.
The present situation of many local regimes quietly supporting different groups of rebels can only lead to a similar fate to Afghanistan, and surely we have learnt from that, no?
Hard to be optimistic, we are watching the echoes of the Cold War reverberate here.
"But what gives us outside the right to pick a winner in Syria?"
The "we shouldn't play favorites, it's their country" argument is really weird. The winning side won't have much more legitimacy just by dint of winning anyways. Assad's fair game- he's gone too far to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Diplomatic action I agree with, but covert ? IMHO, if you want to defend a cause do so openly.
"But what gives us outside the right to pick a winner in Syria?
Who will we kill with our drones and cost free war to engineer a better country?"
Your right, we don't have a right to pick the winner. But when there is a madman running a country that supports terrorism and has chemical weapons, we have a right to pick a winner. Throw in the part where the Assad regime fired on a peaceful protest, and you have the ultimate recipe for losing control of your own destiny to domestic and foreign players.
"Diplomatic action I agree with, but covert ? IMHO, if you want to defend a cause do so openly."
Hopefull one of the few lessons the US and NATO can take from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya is the difference that having support from regional players makes. In Afghanistan and Iraq the areas surrounding the country were not friendly to US/NATO intervention. In Iraq this led to Iran destabilizing the border regions with terrorist cells. In Afghanistan this led to Pakistan closing NATO supply routes and Al Qaeda attacks from Pakistan into Afghanistan as well as Iran destabilizing the southwest portions of Afghanistan with terrorist cells. Libya has been more successful so far because the surrounding Arab and Mediterranean nations agreed that NATO needed to step in. This led to a successful campaign, a stable elected government, and the ousting of a hated dictator.
The US and NATO need the support of Turkey, Israel, Iraq, and Jordan to pursue an open military action in the region. Otherwise the logistics don't work and border countries could attempt to undermine a coalition efforts to wrangle Syria in using conventional military forces. Until that type of agreement comes into place, there can be no intervention other than the use of special/covert operations and diplomatic aid.
NATO doesn't need the powerless UN, the obstructionist Russians, or the inward looking Chinese to sign off on any type of action, but they do need support from regional players.
We don't have the right to "pick a winner." Not to mention not having the ability.
But we do have a right to pick the loser -- and Assad has earned the position. Just a Qaddafi earned the position in Libya, another place where we decided who should be the loser, but not the winner.
I'm only wondering what will happen to Christians in Syria after the rebels take power...
Martin 1789,
To answer your question: after the Sunni majority takes power, the Christians currently living in Syria will rapidly divide into two groups: those inhabiting refugee camps across the border, and those inhabiting mass graves.
Could you share with us your experience with actual Syrians which leads you to this prediction. Not saying that it might not happen that way. But it isn't all that obvious, to those with experience on the ground there, that it is a certainty either.
The Economist for some reasons never mentions the kurdish regions. it really wouldn't kill you if you did you know.
Every evening since the uprising started there have been peaceful demonstrations in kurdish regions. Almost every evening. These demonstrations are peaceful and they are calling for reforms and they are calling for greater democracy. And teh economist never mentiosn them. And now Turkey threathens the kurds and still no one is saying anything. Turkey is threatening defenseless civilians and no one is questioning why turkey is allowed to threaten defenseless civilians
From the current print issue:
"Towns in north-eastern Syria, including Kobani and Afreen, close to the border, have quietly been taken over by Kurdish forces that might claim autonomy if Mr Assad fell. The Turks fear that would stir up Kurds on the Turkish side of the line."
The Economist apparently does mention the Kurdish regions.
Thanks for pointing that out. The global press in general like this newspaper tend to ignore the kurds.
"Turkey is threatening defenseless civilians and no one is questioning why turkey is allowed to threaten defenseless civilians"
This is why I always get just a bit unnerved when someone proposes that Turkey lead some sort of intervention in Syria.
Gentlemen, you need to fact-check your historical references better.
"...an epic battle in the tenth century AD, which pitted the Crusaders against the Muslim Seljuk Turks."
This battle occurred in 1125, during the the 12th century AD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Azaz_(1125)
I sadly note that quality-control is an increasing issue on these pages. Simple oversights such as citing a Crusader battle as having occurred in the 10th century, when any first year history student would know that the Crusades did not begin until the 11th century, smack of a disconnect between the political analysts and the historians at the Economist. This are two fields you are known to integrate, and ones which your readers assume you have a firm grasp over.
Your readers expect better out of the Economist.
While I understand your dismay, it should be noted that this is a blog post. Blogs should not be held to quite as high a standard as articles that are vetted and edited.
While pointing out the error of the blog post is all very well, perhaps you should also check your own post while making criticism. It should be "These are two fields" not "This are two fields" for example. When you are criticizing someone of maing "simple oversight", simple oversight made by yourself may only weaken your argument.
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Come and See (1985)
Dir Elim Klimov (Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius)
The horror of war.
Inspired in part by 'I Come from the Burning Village', a collection of interviews with survivors of the Nazi atrocities committed against the peasant farmers of Belarus in the early 1940s, Klimov's savage masterpiece influenced Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan', and Malick's 'The Thin Red Line', though neither deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence. Separated from the partisan soldiers he joined after leaving behind his mother and two sisters, 12-year-old Florya (Kravchenko), together with pretty teenage peasant girl Glasya (Miranova), wanders aimlessly and struggles merely to survive. Deafened by an explosion, Florya bears silent, wide-eyed witness to the genocidal near-annihilation of the civilian population. Cinematographer Alexei Rodionov's fluid Steadicam draws us into the black heart of the horror, which is also painted on Florya's increasingly haggard face. J G Ballard called it 'one of the greatest war films ever made', and indeed it topped Time Out's top 50 WW2 films list. NF
Read moreBraindead (1992)
Dir Peter Jackson (Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody)
Abbott and Costello meet The Evil Dead.
At the time, Jackson's satirical splatterfest was by far the goriest movie ever made (at least in the English language), yet the tone is gruesomely funny rather than violent or cruel. The innocent love affair between 25-year-old virgin Lionel (Timothy Balme) and the lovely Paquita (Diana Peñalver) is interrupted when his domineering mother is bitten by a Sumatran Rat-Monkey and transforms – through several putrescent stages – into a hideous zombie with a craving for human flesh. Most of the laugh-out-loud humour derives from the hilarious incongruity between the sedate suburban setting, with its polite ladies who lunch, and the blood-drenched spectacle of the loving couple fending off a slavering horde of flesh-eaters with household and garden implements – most iconically and most effectively, that great Kiwi invention, the fly-mo. NF
Read moreFlesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Dir Paul Morrissey (Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier)
They're alive! And they're at it!
Andy Warhol was a producer on this camp, incredibly gory and oh-so-loose spin on Mary Shelley's creation. Kier plays a Serbian version of Baron Frankenstein, the creator of a new 'Adam and Eve' who are dead set on procreating furiously in order to produce a whole new human race. The Factory's favourite boy, Dallesandro, steps up to satisfy the baron's over-sexed sister and increase the film's flesh quotient. It's one of those films the midnight-movie slot was made for. It was initially released in 3D after being cut to secure even an 'R' rating in the US, and the 3D effects mainly consist of people's innards swimming in pools of blood. Memorable line: 'You can't say that you know life until you've fucked death in the gall bladder.' DC
Read moreI Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Dir Jacques Tourneur (Francis Dee, Tom Conway, Christine Gordon, James Ellison)
That voodoo that you do.
Set on a West Indian island, Tourneur's follow-up to 'Cat People (1942)' (see number 29) offers a febrile mix of Caribbean superstition, family secrets and women in white nightgowns sleepwalking in moonlight. Brought from Canada to care for a plantation manager's invalid wife, impressionable young nurse Betsy (Dee) is baffled by her patient's vague demeanour and nocturnal wanderings. Although aware that a secret is being kept from her, Betsy determines to snap the woman out of her catatonia, if necessary by secretly taking her to a voodoo ceremony. To the incessant, rhythmic sound of drums, Tourneur stages a series of elegant, fluid set pieces charged with sickly fear and moral ambivalence. NF
Read moreCronos (1993)
Dir Guillermo del Toro (Federico Luppi, Margarita Isabel, Ron Perlman)
To eternity and beyond.
Del Toro's first feature is steeped in the lifeblood of Gothic lore, yet utterly modern in its horror sensibility. When an ageing Mexican junk shop owner, Jesus Gris (Luppi), stoops to lick a drop of blood from the pure white marble floor of a toilet – a scene at once elegant, shocking and pitiable – we know we are in the hands of a true original. Gris is rejuvenated by an ancient mechanical device which, in return for regular transfusions of his blood, promises eternal life. More time, therefore, to spend with his beloved granddaughter, Mercedes (Isabel). But terminally ill industrialist Angel De la Guardia (Perlman) also covets the vampiric device. Even more impressive than Del Toro's fertile imagination and consummate technique is the film's heartfelt compassion. NF
Read moreInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Dir Philip Kaufman (Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy)
Vote for the green party.
It's gratifying to see both 'Body Snatchers' movies on this list: Don Siegel's 1956 original may be punchier and more bracing, but Philip 'The Right Stuff' Kaufman's '70s remake is funnier and more self-aware. While the original movie was (depending on who you believe) an examination of either McCarthyist conformity or encroaching communism, the remake takes things into weirder, more oblique territory, lampooning the fallout from the '60s ideal with its lentils-and-beansprouts nature freaks and its bandwagon-jumping psychotherapy converts. Plus it's an absolutely terrific horror movie: the scene where Sutherland smashes up a gestating pod-person with a rake is gruesome as hell, but it's that famously devastating closing shot that really chills the blood. TH
Read moreGod Told Me To (1976)
Dir Larry Cohen (Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin)
Jesus loves you… a little too much.
The horror game can be tough. Larry Cohen is without question one of the most inventive, idiosyncratic American writer-directors of the 1970s, his outstanding oeuvre spanning low-budget social commentary, low-rent blaxploitation and a handful of the most politically engaged horror films ever made. Yet here we are, 35 years later, and he manages to scrape one film into our Top 100. 'God Told Me To' is without question one of darkest, sharpest, oddest films on this list, a tale of serial murder, religious mania and alien abduction shot on some of mid-'70s New York's least salubrious streets. Cohen deserves to be mentioned alongside Carpenter and Craven in the horror canon – and this might be his masterpiece, though 'It's Alive', 'Q: The Winged Serpent' and 'The Stuff' all run it close. TH
Read moreThreads (1984)
Dir Mick Jackson (Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly)
Duck and cover.
Originally aired on British TV during the mid '80s, Mick Jackson's docudrama is a sobering, scary and highly realistic hypothetical account of what might happen following a breakdown of society perpetrated, in this instance, by a nuclear strike on Sheffield. The sense of impending doom is palpable as the city's citizens watch TV news reports about the collapse in relations between Russia and the West. Panic buying becomes looting as humanity begins to adopt a dog-eat-dog mentality. Then the obliteration begins – and it's pretty ghastly. Small wonder 'Threads' is in this list; while not strictly part of the horror genre, it provokes a raft of similar emotions – only here you're aware that this can really happen. Powerful, thought-provoking stuff. DA
Read moreInferno (1980)
Dir Dario Argento (Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Alida Valli, Daria Nicolodi)
Burn that mother down.
Horror cinema at its most baroque: a simple libretto is embroidered with elaborate, flowing camera movements, abstract blocks of colour, unsettling sound effects and soundtrack composer Keith Emerson's thunderous rock variations on Verdi. Drawing, like 'Suspiria' before it, on Thomas de Quincey's mythology of The Three Mothers, it explores the long-distance relationship between Rose (Miracle) and her brother Mark (McClosky), who inhabit apartment houses in New York and Rome. These buildings were built to house The Mother of Darkness and The Mother of Tears. Miracle's early dip into the muffled world of a flooded sub-basement immediately immerses us in the dreamlike narrative, one that replicates the free associative fluidity of the unconscious. Argento's best work is far behind him, but this alone justifies his cult reputation.NF
Read moreThe Fog (1979)
Dir John Carpenter (Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh)
Play misty for me.
A couple of years after scaring the bejesus out of us with 'Halloween', John Carpenter collaborated with regular screenwriting partner Debra Hill for this classic chiller about a mysterious bank of glowing fog that sweeps over a Californian seaside town, unleashing a torrent of frights perpetrated by the zombified ghosts of some rather miffed, vengeful mariners who perished just off the coast some 100 years earlier. No horror film worth its salt would be fulfilling its duty without a suitably scary location and here, of course, it's the big white solitary lighthouse where Carpenter's former wife Barbeau (playing a radio DJ) is so thoroughly terrorised. You really must check out the original trailer for this film; the voice-over is classically bad. DA
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