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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
Yeah, I thought of Syria while I was writing that. I think a significant reason they're still going is because they're being supported and armed by outside countries. Plus there's probably a large Islamist element, and whatever their many faults, Islamists can't ever be accused of a lack of commitment. People generally may also feel like they have less to lose; in Western countries people are maybe just too comfortable with their lives.
Plus, although it's on the surface a more brutal and tyrannical regime, I'd say that state control is far worse (better, from the Government's point of view) in the West than in Syria. We're more sophisticated, with far better (surveillance) technology and better intelligence/police. So I suspect it's actually easier for groups of people to get together and plan an insurrection in Syria without being discovered and arrested, than it is in the USA.
It's interesting to wonder, with Hillary constantly attacking Assad's response, just how the US Government would react to a serious revolt. No use of Apaches? Or planes? Or tanks? The Government would use absolutely everything at its disposal to save itself.
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At the end of the day, they are still fighting tanks and planes and bombs with rifles - no matter who is supporting them. But at the same time, all of the tanks in the world and all of the planes in the world can't kill a single man if they can't find him, and that's exactly what's happening here. That's exactly what's happening here - they are fighting "civilians" which are everywhere and no where all at once.
With the US.... It will never happen here. All of these debates and discussions about politics is just that - debates and discussions - and no matter if you are Republican or a Democrat, at the end of the day we've got it very good here.