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Assad has left Damascus, say senior army officers; Syria rebels say they are in capital
(www.reuters.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2024
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This is not "what freedom looks like" this is "what a violent rebellion looks like". There are good odds that the new regime will be as bad or even worse. People who overthrow a power with military force aren't often interested in sharing that power afterwards.
The other option: overthrow the violent regime with magic.
I don't know what to tell you - people always think there must be a "good" option, and if the current one is bad then any other option must therefore be good.
This could also be a radical regime like the Taliban that could actually be worse for most people.
What about this: the status quo under Assad with houndred of thousands tortured and murdered is bad enough to try to change it.
Yeah it was a very good idea to give weapons to ISIS. Thanks american realpolitik /s
Well... Yeah. But do the rebels care about that? Or do they just feel that Asad was just torturing and murdering the wrong people? And do they feel that Assad was just not following the koran closely enough by allowing women to be educated?
Rebellion against oppression often leads to a different type of oppression, and given the groups these rebels have been associated with in the past it's concerning at least.
You just write down what pops up in you mind.
Where are your sources for those claims?
What claims? You just say things that pop in your mind too. Where are your sources?
This is untrue considering their track record after the rebranding from Al-Nusra to HTS. They're not spawning out of thin air.
What is untrue? My concern? How can my concern be "untrue?"
The skills needed to be a revolutionary are very different from the skills needed to govern. Remember when the taliban was "kinder and softer" for a few months?
I'll be happy if my concern is misplaced. But time will tell.
The idea that they "could be" ignores the fact that they've been actively governing their territories since (and before, I guess) 2017, and they haven't started a Taliban-style brutal regime there. I mean I guess it's not impossible for them to suddenly change their style of governing, but what I'm trying to say that they have a track record we can use to try and predict their future behavior.
So maybe next time have a conversation rather than just telling somebody "that's untrue"? No need to be weirdly adversarial...
That said - you raise some good points. I'm not ignoring anything though. You're acting like my "concern" is saying "things will go bad" when it's not.
That... is fair enough.
Wasn't my intention to be adversarial but that is also fair enough.
I mean very narrowly this moment right now. This moment of uncertainty where anything is possible. This is what freedom looks like: anything is possible, the best and the worst.
I gotcha - though I personally wouldn't choose the word "freedom" for that. "Uncertainty" is more appropriate I'd say. The future of the nation will be up to the rebels, not the people. They won't get any say unless the new regime lets them.
"The king is dead! Long live the king!" and all that...