Aestu wrote:
Syria's insurrection is not a homegrown rebellion, it is the product of the CIA pouring money and heavy weapons into the country. The AK-47 under your bed is not comparable to the kind of weapons it takes to fight a regular military head-on. Where do you think these people get rocket launchers?
The Syrian government stood for over half a century and the violence began only when the US became obsessed with "regime change" and the Iraq War spilled over into the other Baathist regime. The civil war is causing terrible suffering, and whether it will ultimately produce a regime better than what it is fighting against is questionable.
Also see: bombing of Cambodia
Egypt's revolution was mostly peaceful - and took the form of a military coup.
Jubber, you keep taking the few facts that conditionally support your argument and isolate them from the wider context, then you totally disregard the mountains of facts that debunk it utterly. Disarmament didn't prevent the fall of Communism or the British Raj or apartheid or the military dictatorships in Taiwan and Korea.
Civil proliferation did make life in Haiti, Ireland, Columbia and now Syria utterly unlivable for generations on end, and that only began to change for the Irish when they took steps to get rid of all the weapons floating around.
General strikes aren't as cool as grabbing your gun and shooting dem bad gais, but it is much, much more effective at undermining an unjust government. Governments fall when they lose the faith and cooperation of their people, not due to random acts of violence.
The post to which I was responding was basically "DERP DERP," and I gave it the sort of response "DERP DERP" deserves. I'm sorry you're offended that I don't waste time responding to guttural gibbering with a nuanced and reasoned argument. I just find it's easier to respond to flippant, silly comments with flippant, silly comments.
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Jubber
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