Originally Posted by Fiddly_Feltz:
“She's an irritant. I knew this week would have this as a topic. They should show the response from normal people.....like....why don't the fit young healthy men fleeing their country to invade Europe sign up to join their Army and defend their country?
Hmmm.......leftie God botherer?”
So - the war in Syria started because there were demonstrations by the populace demanding democracy during the Arab spring and instead of increasing democracy Assad started to wage war on his own people. There is recent evidence that the Syrian army is using chlorine gas against civilians. This is a war crime.
The link below is to an article on CNN - so, I defy you to claim this article is all due to left wing bias. I also dare you to view the video clip and then come back on here and continue with your heartless and seemingly ignorant opinions that Syrians do not have genuine reasons to flee the country.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/16/po...pons-chlorine/
On the other side, rebels started to fight against Assad and at some point some of these rebels morphed into IS who disposed of many of the less extreme rebels. As IS are funded by Saudi Arabia and control significant oil fields they are literally loaded in both the monetary and military sense of the word and have come to dominate opposition to Assad.
So, if you are just an ordinary Syrian person hoping for a quite life with your family you are caught between being trashed by your own government on one side or IS on the other. If it was your son, would you send them to act as cannon fodder for the government which has been brutally crushing all opposition for several years and is now using chemical weapons? Really?