More die in Syria after deadliest known day

[LAGC]

(CNN) -- Dozens more people were reported killed by government troops and police in Syria on Tuesday, a day after what opposition activists said was the single deadliest known day of anti-government protests.

The Local Coordination Committees, an opposition umbrella group, said 78 people died across four Syrian provinces. Most of them were in Idlib, where the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 60 to 70 Syrian army defectors were gunned down Monday as they tried to flee their posts.

The Syrian Observatory's Rami Abdul Rahman said another 40 civilians were killed the same day "across Syria during house-to-house raids, arrests, and clashes between army defectors and the Syrian army."

"Monday may have been a day with the highest death toll in Syria, between 100 and 110 killed in total," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/20/world/...html?hpt=hp_t3

Shit is really jumping off in the Middle East. I think Syria will be the next domino to fall, followed by Yemen. While it may mean Islamic groups gaining power in the interim (since they've been so oppressed by their dictators all this time), if the rebels can at least put a somewhat democratic constitution in place, it could lead to a more secular republic forming over the long-term, as people begin to speak their minds and exercise their rights.

Here's an interactive map of the hot-spots: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2011/arab.unrest/index.html

Iran is going to be the toughest nut to crack. But as more and more activists sneak in cell phones and other technology that connects them to the uncensored Internet, the free flow of ideas will eventually spell doom for the theocracy as well. No invasion required.

[Warthogg]

What comes next is of concern.


Wart

[copterdoctor]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...sh_613588.html

[El Laton Caliente]

Since Syria is Ba'ath Party, an WWII off shoot of the socialist NAZI party, why would you want a successful progressive country over thrown?

[El Laton Caliente]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...sh_613588.html

Oh, my...

[LAGC]

Somehow I doubt the people in that picture even know what the message says.

Providing NATO air support to take out an oppressive leader's military assets is one thing, but putting foreign boots on the ground just makes for a bloody insurrection as people rebel against outsiders coming in and occupying the place.

We should follow Libya's example, and let the people wage their own revolution, not impose a puppet government on them at gun-point.

[Warthogg]

Somehow I doubt the people in that picture even know what the message says.

Providing NATO air support to take out an oppressive leader's military assets is one thing, but putting foreign boots on the ground just makes for a bloody insurrection as people rebel against outsiders coming in and occupying the place.

We should follow Libya's example, and let the people wage their own revolution, not impose a puppet government on them at gun-point.

What we should do is stay the fuck out of Syria's business.


Wart

[El Laton Caliente]

Naw, sit on the outside and supply... train... guide.

[Oswald Bastable]

Somehow I doubt the people in that picture even know what the message says.

Must be why they're all displaying the "Victory" sign.

[Justin]

What we should do is stay the fuck out of Syria's business.


Wart

[Texas Soldado]

Islamic Fundementalist will gain control because that is what the people there want. Hard to conceive of Democracy when you have never experienced it and Muslims are a very... primitive type when it comes to religion. Islam's way or the Highway so to speak. Mullahs are the community leaders and they tell the followers and I do mean FOLLOWERS... what's what. Mullahs are not going to tell the sheep to take democracy, nope the mullahs say follow me, and the sheep do follow.


Islamic theocracy won't be doomed until muslims cease to be devout.

[Warthogg]

....... say follow me, and the sheep do follow.

So far as I know XXXX says follow me - Moe-Hamid, Jay-sus, whomever - and their followers (sheep if you will) follow.

I mean how can you have a leader but no followers ?? How can you follow without a leader* ?? Seems to me there is some sort of co-dependency going on here between leader sheep and sheeple. (Maybe even a symbiotic relationship huh !)


Wart


*Should 'Follow the Leader' be banned ??

ETA:

Isn't there quite a lot about sheep in the Newer Testament ???

[Partisan1983]

Somehow I doubt the people in that picture even know what the message says.

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/201...george-w-bush/