"For the past two years, Daesh and the regime have largely avoiding fighting each other."
huh? what about tabqa, deir ezzor etc? tabqa was possibly ISIS' biggest battle, losses in fighters and ultimate success. many hundreds killed on both side.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Al-Tabqa_air_base
"global media coverage has tended to ignore those voices"
what an uninformed comment. au contraire, western global media including this site has romanticized and greatly exaggerated these "revolution" voices while completely ignoring the voices of the majority of syrians.
regarding the amnesty international claims, see the point by point expose of the failings and bias of that report at http://tinyurl.com/odldzg5
("8 problems with amnesty's report on aleppo, syria" )
This is a good 3 minute history overview and sketch. However Americans need to know a hell of a lot more than that about Syria if they bomb it. For starters:
1) Until the uprising began Syria was a great place for Westerners to visit, stay and study Arabic, etc..
2) US has been meddling in Syria and actively promoting opposition elements since 2004 Bush plan to "remake" the Mideast. Seymour Hersh documents some of this.
3) Foreign financed armed rebels killed seven Syrian police on March 20 2011, right at the START.
In other words, this is not simply a civil war. It is also a foreign financed war of external agression.
"For the past two years, Daesh and the regime have largely avoiding fighting each other."
huh? what about tabqa, deir ezzor etc? tabqa was possibly ISIS' biggest battle, losses in fighters and ultimate success. many hundreds killed on both side.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Al-Tabqa_air_base
"global media coverage has tended to ignore those voices"
what an uninformed comment. au contraire, western global media including this site has romanticized and greatly exaggerated these "revolution" voices while completely ignoring the voices of the majority of syrians.
regarding the amnesty international claims, see the point by point expose of the failings and bias of that report at
http://tinyurl.com/odldzg5
("8 problems with amnesty's report on aleppo, syria" )
This is a good 3 minute history overview and sketch. However Americans need to know a hell of a lot more than that about Syria if they bomb it. For starters:
1) Until the uprising began Syria was a great place for Westerners to visit, stay and study Arabic, etc..
2) US has been meddling in Syria and actively promoting opposition elements since 2004 Bush plan to "remake" the Mideast. Seymour Hersh documents some of this.
3) Foreign financed armed rebels killed seven Syrian police on March 20 2011, right at the START.
In other words, this is not simply a civil war. It is also a foreign financed war of external agression.