Obama wants to make war in Syria

[Sophie]

It's tied to the mess they did in Iraq. The Americans think the Middle East as chessboard, however this time they might actually doing something right in confining Iranian influence and helping in making Hezbollah disappear since it relies heavily on Iranian and Syrian support.

Iran doesn't really have any influence in the region at all. Most of the regional power is in the hands of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and of course NATO.

[StonyArabia]

Iran doesn't really have any influence in the region at all. Most of the regional power is in the hands of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and of course NATO.

It does via the Shia cresent, when the Iraqi government was replaced by Shia fundmentalist that has become an Iranian puppet, which the Americans want to end this Cresent. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and America all want to end this and hence why they want Iran to be outside of Near Eastern politics.

[Sophie]

It does via the Shia cresent, when the Iraqi government was replaced by Shia fundmentalist that has become an Iranian puppet, which the Americans want to end this Cresent. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and America all want to end this and hence why they want Iran to be outside of Near Eastern politics.

The Shiite crescent is named after the geographical distribution of Shiites in the Near East. It is not a military alliance.

And just because the Iraqi people and Iranian people share the same religion, it doesn't make Iraq "a puppet" of Iran.

[Virtuous]

War? Nah, only a peace keeping operation for the best interests of the Syrian population, and for human rights.

[StonyArabia]

The Shiite crescent is named after the geographical distribution of Shiites in the Near East. It is not a military alliance.

It's both actually, the Shia ruled regimes of Syria, Iraq and the Hezbollah de facto ruled Lebanon are allies of Iran.

And just because the Iraqi people and Iranian people share the same religion, it doesn't make Iraq "a puppet" of Iran.

The Iraqi government was placed by the Americans, but this bit them, since they are friendly and try to obey Iranian orders if this not puppet I have no idea what, hence why they want to cut Assad. Why do you think the Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey all want to end the Assad regime and were not happy about the regime change that the Americans did in Iraq, because Iran gained more power than before.

[Grizzly]

It's tied to the mess they did in Iraq. The Americans think the Middle East as chessboard, however this time they might actually doing something right in confining Iranian influence and helping in making Hezbollah disappear since it relies heavily on Iranian and Syrian support.

Is that why the US is using Al-Qaeda in Syria?

US will topple the Assad regime for their own interests. Probably to defeat a threat for big daddy Israel, control the resources in Syria, for the rich moguls to profit off the devastation and to create an oil pipeline through Syria to ports..

[Mani]

The Shia strategy in the middleast is to survive. The purpose of existence for any nation and people is to survive. The degree and quality of survival varies from nation to nation. I am afraid without Iran's relatively sophisticated intelligence and military might, the degree of survival for shia's will be low. The sunnis of the region are surviving very well and have been for centuries, they are very cunning and clever politicians. It is only recently that shias have gained some influence and power in Iraq that the sunnis are throwing a fit ... they would like to drink the blood of the shias once again if they could believe me . . .

The majority of sunnis had no problems rebelling against the Ottomans in favor for the British to come and draw lines on the map and replace muslims with 'puppet' arab foreign kings to rule instead of having the Iraqi people sharing the power.