How horrible is Assad, Shiite militias, Hezbollah and the Russians?

[SteveG]

You were horrified by the 59 killed and 527 wounded in Las Vegas.

Just imagine that happening every day for 27.39 years. EVERY DAY.

You would then get the dead and wounded tolls in Syria. So when people try to rationalize that maybe Assad and his pals are 'not so bad', just keep the daily slaughter in mind (for 27.39 years). Actually it's more and Assad includes barrel bombs and sarin gas as well.
Thank you.

[DeusxMac]

Specious false equivalence. Apples-to-Oranges on a number of levels.

[SteveG]

Mountains of corpses from Assad's vicious police state are just as dead.

[cbelt3]

Isn't Israel lucky ? Trump sent his corrupt and soon to be indicted son in law to broker a peace deal. Maybe the assumption is that Bibi would find common ground in mendacity?

[SteveG]

An intractable part of the problems in the Middle East is that Israel finds itself witnessing this slaughter from about 12 feet away.
Exactly how do you plot a course to a peaceful future while this level of conflict and hatred reigns in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Libya, Kurdistan, Sudan, Somalia and other active points of repression, murder and all-out war?

[Ted King]

I'm not sure who it is that you are referring to when you say "people trying to rationalize that Assad isn't so bad". If the raw numbers of deaths, torturing children, ghastly brutality in so many ways, etc. isn't enough to convince someone of how horrible the Assad regime is then an analogy with the Las Vegas mass shooting isn't likely to convince them.

Israelis would be justified in their concern about the success of Assad and Hezbollah with the help of the Russians (and the U.S.) in crushing ISIS. It probably won't take long for Assad and his buddies to in-turn grind down the non-Kurd anti-Assad rebel groups in Syria. Then Turkey will probably help put the screws to the Syrian Kurds. Iran is already gathering troops on the Iraqi Kurd-Iranian border. And Iran is increasing its general military cooperation with the Iraqi government (dominated by Shiites). The signs are gathering that there will be serious efforts to neutralize the Iraqi Kurds before too long.

If the rebel groups in Syria are swept aside and the Kurds are neutralized, then there's a strong possibility that the Iranians-Hezbollah-Assad-Iraqi Shiite axis can and will much more fully turn its attention on Israel (not that Israel hasn't gotten plenty of their attention, but they have had to focus a lot of effort toward defeating Isis and assuring the Assad regime's survival). Maybe that won't happen, but I think the possibility is real enough that I can see the Israelis being very concerned about it.

[DeusxMac]

Steve G. wrote:
Mountains of corpses from Assad's vicious police state are just as dead.

40,000+ "just as dead" in traffic fatalities in just one year (2016) in the US.

Your juxtaposition of Las Vegas and Syria remains specious.


Edit: "Israel" to "Syria", but equating armed conflicts between groups anywhere to Las Vegas is STILL specious.

[SteveG]

You mean Syria? I was thinking of the reaction by the public, media and individuals to the Las Vegas incident in contrast to the Syria deaths (by equally violent means).

The Syrian events as well as Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Sudan speak for themselves. As i have been pointing out for a long time, the gruesome events in the Middle East are not connected with Israel. These populations are doing this all by themselves.

[Speedy]

Steve G. wrote:
An intractable part of the problems in the Middle East is that Israel finds itself witnessing this slaughter from about 12 feet away.
Exactly how do you plot a course to a peaceful future while this level of conflict and hatred reigns in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Libya, Kurdistan, Sudan, Somalia and other active points of repression, murder and all-out war?

I guess you do what you can to keep them fighting each other.