Originally Posted by thommy

what a funny discussion here.

germany was the only country in the world what really DID something for the "poor civilians" what are worth an airstrike now and the whole world laughed about the "german idiots".

now even trump seems to see the tragedy of millions of civilians who just do not want to be on a place where bombs and poison are present 24 hours per day.
last week the same trump said he want to keep assad - now he is bombing him.

is this a president as you want him?
say one thing and doing the opposite?

this crisis in syria is not a crisis between syrians and syrains (@ crocket: has also not much to do with a US army base) - it is a war around a country what is the most important one to deliver oil and gas with pipelines to the european market.

if you investigate a bit about the "nabucco pipeline" you will know a lot more about this war and understand that this is a pure economical war.

i.e. katar (what needs this pipline to deliver theri immense gas ressourses to Europe) financed the syrian rebels since 2012 (when iran and russia got the rights on it)

so in this war is team A: European Union, USA, Katar and Saudi Arabia
which supporting the rebels (and thea re are additionally supported by the al-nusra front and ISIS !!!!!)

and on the other side team B: the alawite-shi'ite Assad regime supported by Russia, shi'ite Iran, shi'ite Hezbollah and shi'ite forces in Iraq

all of them just want this pipeline and tell the whole world bullshit about the reasons of this conflict.

that trump is changing his mind has the reason that he is partner of the saudies and would have an enourmus private advantage when this pipline could be used by them.

so there is a big difference in that when you look behind the curtain - the human factor does not play ANY role in it.