Syrian rebels root for Romney in hopes of US military intervention

[sabra]

Source: Christian Science Monitor

Seldom do you find Arabs anywhere in the Middle East who have warm feelings about America’s most recent war with Iraq, especially in Syria where many people were actively involved in supporting the Iraqi insurgency.

Yet as Syria’s upheaval nears the two-year mark, many of those who are increasingly desperate for a foreign intervention to end the conflict now reference Iraq as a seemingly positive example of why America might decide to help. With an eye on the US elections, they say they hope the party that brought them the Iraq war might also bring America to Syria.

“The Republicans prefer using the military. Like Bush, he entered Iraq and Afghanistan. They use the military in all cases so maybe they will try to intervene here,” says Mustafa Abu Abdu, who used to be a psychology student before the war. “Obama will keep saying that [President Bashar] Assad must stop and that America is sorry about civilian deaths, but he will not do anything to help here.”

A number of Syrians like Mr. Abdu say they hope Tuesday’s election in America will bring Mitt Romney into the Oval Office because they say he is more likely to change the US policy in favor an intervention in Syria.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-rebels-root-romney-hopes-us-military-intervention-212532573.html

[SpankMe]

1. I can't imagine what the pit-bull Repubs would be saying...

...if it was Obama getting the endorsement of Arabs. It would be 'evidence' of the president's "Arabness" or "Muslim-ness" or whatever those hypocrites think. Fox News would be on fire.

[defacto7]

2. That is also one highly biased article.

Yahoo and Christian Science Monitor are no friends of the left. I noticed some really low level biased non-journalism in that article.

I was going to make a response based on the report having some possible merit, but just reading though, it's too apparent it can't be trusted so I won't give any credit to it in any form.

[patrice]

3. More than Mitt Rongny, the Syrians NEED to identify who the War Profiteers in the situation are &

who isn't. They are the real oppressors of Syrians and Americans.

[Iliyah]

4. Sending our young people to help fight their political war

oh my, which would be trending . . . WW3, hallelujah, the end of the world!

[L0oniX]

5. Christian Science Monitor? LOL

[leveymg]

7. It used to be a really good newspaper, with excellent foreign and political coverage.

[leveymg]

6. What ever happened to Tabatha? Wonder what she would say about this.

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Tabatha, who denied that this would ever turn into a Sunni vs Shiia religious war or become a regional conflict, and claimed that the US would never intervene on one side or the other.

[Poll_Blind]

8. Ah, yes: Tabatha. I have little doubt she'll be back when the stars are right. nt

PB

[joshcryer]

10. Haven't heard from her in awhile.

She didn't understand why I didn't jump on the Syria bandwagon (despite there was a lot of overlap with Libyan supporters). It was an entirely different situation, incomparable. Juan Cole has only reported on Syria from an informative point of view and not a supportive view (though I think initially he wanted to support regime change he's backed down).

[hanzi88]

9. Ha, obviously these Syrians haven't checked with their Iraqi friends yet.

Just ask the Iraqis how they feel to be in the same bed as the neocons. Do they know they're trading another Satan for Assad? They'll be fighting the neocons after Assad is gone.

[Dash87]

11. "Please give us weapons to kill you with later"