Syrian Documentary Maker Risks Life Shooting Raw Footage of Airstrikes

[taxi]

this all can also end if Moaz al-Khatib calls it off.

Things will go back to normal. Syrian people will live the way they use to live. There will be no elections, Syria wasn't a country suffering like Afghanistan, North Korea, or Burma. Just love it how the West has painted them the Villians. There's no way Assad is going to step down. If he steps down the people is screwed, and that country will have a never ending war with extremists trying to turn Syria into an Islamic State of terror. Unless the new Syria is fast enough to assemble their own army quick enough, which is probably unlikely. Best thing to do? The Rebels stop fighting. Why should Assad step down? His government was there first. ! btw I asked you a question on page 1. Please kindly answer. Thank you.

[MoneypuckOverlord]

You're honestly arguing that a dictator deserves to be in power, because he was there first?

Call an election. You're arguing that submitting to Assad's continuing rule and calling an election are equivalents. They are not.

Edit:

Also, it's not just "the West", it's organizations like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc.. that are calling out Assad. These organizations are typically very critical of "the West" themselves.

[taxi]

Taxi is brain washed.

Nvm.

btw. thank you kindly for answering my question.

[sam13371337]

Hmmm let's see, just the usual set of actions from a totally authoritarian government:

-total denial of freedom of speech.

[sam13371337]

There are hundreds/maybe thousands of videos that show gruesome rebel atrocities.

you name it, its there. decapitations, mass executions. Single executions. Car bombings, use of child soldiers, use of child soldiers to chop heads off, dragging people on the back of cars with ropes, torture of every kind imaginable, etc.etc.....

but you don't need a shock video, just a simple act of everyday thuggery gives a glimpse into life under "rebel" occupied alleppo.

these armed islamist "freedom fighters" confront this local allepo celebrity known as "yellow man". apparently They do not approve of the way he puts food on his kids table.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyB9aOM2Uy4

this is only one of a million reasons why the Syrian people have still stuck by the government

[taxi]

A few things:

1) No one is calling to bomb Syria. The USA certainly won't. And even if anyone wanted to bomb Syria, Russia wouldn't allow it. Russia is to Syria as Israel is to the USA.

2) No one is disputing that the FSA contains islamists or that islamist groups are working independently in Syria. It's quite plain that various outside groups are now funding islamist militant groups in Syria, most notably Saudi Arabia. You providing examples of that contributes nothing to this argument.

The Free Syrian Army was originally largely composed of defectors who refused to shoot protestors. The current commanders of the FSA are all former members of Assad's army, not islamists.

Although after every day that passes the likelyhood of Syria returning to a functioning state decreases, Assad can still end this by calling an election and negotiating with his own countrymen to set up a new government. Instead, he's a billionaire grasping onto power while tens of thousands die around him.

Your theory about the FSA being entirely unpopular islamists doesn't explain many things. Why is Assad blocking aid? Why is Assad using his air force in populated areas? Why are non-islamist movements allied with the FSA? Why have Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard entered the country?

[kurtis]

another proxy war from the west. just like Lybia was,,,

[kurtis]

A few things:

1) No one is calling to bomb Syria. The USA certainly won't. And even if anyone wanted to bomb Syria, Russia wouldn't allow it. Russia is to Syria as Israel is to the USA.

2) No one is disputing that the FSA contains islamists or that islamist groups are working independently in Syria. It's quite plain that various outside groups are now funding islamist militant groups in Syria, most notably Saudi Arabia. You providing examples of that contributes nothing to this argument.

The Free Syrian Army was originally largely composed of defectors who refused to shoot protestors. The current commanders of the FSA are all former members of Assad's army, not islamists.

Although after every day that passes the likelyhood of Syria returning to a functioning state decreases, Assad can still end this by calling an election and negotiating with his own countrymen to set up a new government. Instead, he's a billionaire grasping onto power while tens of thousands die around him.

Your theory about the FSA being entirely unpopular islamists doesn't explain many things. Why is Assad blocking aid? Why is Assad using his air force in populated areas? Why are non-islamist movements allied with the FSA? Why have Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard entered the country?