William Hague: we cannot rule out military action on Syria

Where is the evidence Assad forces committed this massacre? Reporters aren't allowed in the country, so then all we have is the word of the FSA against the word of the government. Why would Assad want his forces to execute children thus provoking an invasion? Why would enlisted forces of any country execute their own children even if it was directly ordered? Aren't extreme Islamists, the sort who compose the FSA, more likely to employ methods such as beheading? And how do we know that it wasn't a third party such as Al Qaeda or a band of pro-regime civilians?

So why do people mindlessly believe it all unquestioningly? Could it be because we're being misguided by propaganda such as photos from Iraq all day on BBC news? Could that have something to do with the fact that it is extremely beneficial for Israel, the West and the Gulf states that Assad falls and a leader that sides with us over Iran / Russia / China replaces him?

You have to be extremely ignorant to not be asking any of these questions. As far as our leaders are concerned this situation is not a humanitarian crisis, it's part of a broader geopolitical strategy for all countries involved and they're selling it to us with these skewed reports and blatant propaganda. The real victims of it all are the Syrians who were happy living under Assad, the Christians who now fear persecution and the peaceful protestors that genuinely opposed Assad whose movement was completely hijacked.

That worked great with the Taliban, didn't it? lol...

I say just leave them to it. It's time Arabs and Middle Easterners learnt the value of our help instead of bitching when we give it and bitching when we don't. If they can't be grateful screw them. It's not like we help out Africans facing worse problems, why are they any different?

Surely you are not so naive to fail note the pattern of various muslim users on TSR such as Persy whinging about West attacks on sunni muslim leaders, but egging them on to attack Shia dictators such as Assad. You would also note the various posts about Attrocities in syria but little referance to killings by the sunni saudi backed Bahrain governement , or even the tens of thousands of muslims sunni saddam killed too. i suppose it reflects the sunni majortiy on tsr membership?

perhaps you can glean from this Persy and co have little concern for muslims, just simply a political agenda that benefits sunni islam?

Im Sunni.

So?

Just saying, im not in your "majority". The majority of TSR sunni Muslims dont want intervention in our lands. Only the Salafis do.

From my reading of TSR, more muslims are bitching about Assad in syria than anything else. And none have bitched about Bahrain. In fact they have often bitched about the fact the West ousted saddam, interupting his killing of thousands and shia muslims.

seems hypocritical

Well, they do say the revolution will not be televised hence Bahrain isnt.

2. Most of the FSA are Syrian army defects. Who only defected because they found the Assad regime brutal/oppressive - they would not be joining the FSA if it was equally so.

- Mujahideen (many with the right intentions) are travelling all across the world to do Jihad in Syria. Just recently reports came of 600 Libyans crossing the border to join FSA. The situation is becomming similar to that of the Bosnian war.

As for peace, that's not going to happen for as long as Assad is in power.

Just supply them weapons and they'll handle the rest.

That worked great with the Taliban, didn't it? lol...

I say just leave them to it. It's time Arabs and Middle Easterners learnt the value of our help instead of bitching when we give it and bitching when we don't. If they can't be grateful screw them. It's not like we help out Africans facing worse problems, why are they any different?

Should that be the case for any emerging Shia militias in Bahrain?

From my reading of TSR, more muslims are bitching about Assad in syria than anything else. And none have bitched about Bahrain. In fact they have often bitched about the fact the West ousted saddam, interupting his killing of thousands and shia muslims.

seems hypocritical

Military intervention is a good thing. War isn't. That is why many people, including me, strongly approved of the military action that took place in Libya, but strongly disapproved of what took place in Iraq and Afghanistan. The death tolls in Libya were negligible compared to Iraq and Aghanistan and a huge number of lives were saved as a result.

And the comparison with the Taliban is ridiculous. Although there are Islamist elements to the Syrian resistance, it is inevitable as most of the country's population are Muslim. However the Syrian opposition and Free Syrian Army have made it absoloutely clear that their resistance is not sectarian or religiously motivated in nature, and that they fully support, and fight for the implementation of democracy. Vastly different from the Taliban.

It's very childish to treat this issue so lightly and generalise about Arabs "bitching", but this is the internet so meh.

Just saying, im not in your "majority". The majority of TSR sunni Muslims dont want intervention in our lands. Only the Salafis do.