SYRIA - Problems explained.

[Phil Perry]

This superb recent graphic from the website 'Go Free Syria' explains the ISIS situation in simple terms.

 

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I hope that this clears things up. . . . .

 

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[Phil Perry]

I heard today that TWO specific groups of Anti- regime rebels, BOTH of which are supplied and armed by the U.S. are now fighting each other,

 

. . . whilst also being bombed themselves by the Russians and the Regime forces from the air, and being shelled by Turkish artillery. . . .

 

What a confusing mess. . .

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Soon after the bomber was invented about 1915 the Brits were bombing Syria, they bombed it in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s and I don't know when else and it is still being bombed so no wonder the Syrians get a little tetchy at times.

 

Edit....ok it was the French at first. I was thinking of the Brits in Iraq.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Soon after the bomber was invented about 1915 the Brits were bombing Syria, they bombed it in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s and I don't know when else and it is still being bombed so no wonder the Syrians get a little tetchy at times.

Edit....ok it was the French at first. I was thinking of the Brits in Iraq.

 

Yes indeedy. . . .the dividing up of parts of the middle East ( Iraq particularly ) by the British Govt. of the time was not very clever at all, as geological geometry takes on board no sensible consideration of long standing tribal boundaries and vastly differing philosophies. . . . .