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Jefferson23

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3. Yea, and we're arming a select group..their choice of words is interesting. n/t

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 01:50 PM

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Syria: nearly half rebel fighters are jihadists or hardline Islamists, says IHS Jane's report [View all] Jefferson23 Sep 2013 OP

The armed opposition is a free for all of marauders and militias. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #1

Yea, and we're arming a select group..their choice of words is interesting. n/t Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #3

Yet this collection of "marauders and militia" commit far fewer war crimes than the "professional" pampango Sep 2013 #4

They do? Based on what, exactly? Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #5

The findings of the United Nations and Amnesty International. pampango Sep 2013 #7

Your Amnesty Link is 6 months old - an eternity ago in this conflict riderinthestorm Sep 2013 #10

If you are conceding that government forces committed the "vast majority" of war crimes in the first pampango Sep 2013 #11

Don't misunderstand, Assad is clearly responsible for a great deal of planned murder. What I find Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #13

Sorry for not making myself clear. It is not a "bonus" for the Syrian people to have the brutality pampango Sep 2013 #14

I would agree, they're screwed no matter how you look at it. Yet it is more than Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #15

I suspect it's because they lack the wherewithal. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #6

That may be, but the government deserves no credit for using its firepower (wherewithal) to commit pampango Sep 2013 #9

Really? WovenGems Sep 2013 #2

Again, ProSense Sep 2013 #8

If you would like a response, link the orginal OP and avoid linking to other threads Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #12

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