Syrian Revolution Quotes

There was a major revolution ongoing in Syria with different Arab Muslim factions slaughtering each other. The government side was particularly vicious shelling and using poison gas unarmed civilian enclaves in areas where the regime was not popular. Many nations called for humanitarian intervention. Netanyahu opposed any interventions while other politicians like President and former prime minister Shimon Peres disagreed and thought that Israel and other nations should intervene on humanitarian grounds and prevent the Assad government from butchering its own non-combatant civilians.

Assad was the autocratic ruler of Syria. In the second decade of the 21st century, a number of dissident groups started a rebellion. The Unied States and most of the EU countruies wanted to assist the rebels as Assad had been butchering his own people to put down the rebellion. Russia, in addition to having an allaince with Assad for a Navel Base in Syria, was very coincerned about the people replacing Assad if the revolution succeeded. The coalition of rebels was not at all a coalition and there was considerable fighting and hatred between them ISIS was one of the stringest groups and the Russians were worried that they might take over so they supported Assad and in 2016 actually intervened using Russian air power to support the Government troops. That turned the tide and teh rebellion was prevented from succeeding. The Russian leadership was distressed that the United States did not take their concerns seriouly enough and indeed after they were in teh fight, the United States had to deal with them about the fate of Syria, so it was a successful tactic.

The basis of his complaint essentially was that he and his military and supports were no worse than the guys why they were killing and if they did not continue fighting and kikking, they themselves would be killed. While there was some truth to that, Assad was one of the worst dictators of the post WWII era. His indiscriminate shooting, shelling and air strikes on women & children, hospitls and schools, and the use of poison gas was enough to justify the image of him as a "bad guy".

The great powers she was referring to were Russia, United States, Turkey, and Iran. However, France as the ex-colonial power and England as a major force in post Ottoman Empire control are were also important. The Assad Alawite government and the Sunni majority were at odds with nether strong enough to crush the other.

Syria was in the midst of a civil war against the Assad Tyrannical government. American policy was to support non-terrorist revolutionary groups against Assad. But in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and other countries where there was a terrible dictator who was removed, there was chaos and the countries in many ways were worse off.