The videos I'm talking about are the ones made by ISIS itself where their victims are dressed in orange before they are either beheaded or burned to death. I don't think most Americans even know about the ones you are talking about.
And I'm talking about the videos that Assad loyalists made where their victims are dirtied and bloodied before they are either beaten or mutilated to death. Where they are buried alive and told to say that Assad is their god. Where they are kicked and told to kiss Assad's picture. Why don't most Americans even know about the ones I'm talking about but they do when it comes to ISIS?
We are not rushing. Obama is still committed to no boots on the ground. The was no aerial bombing done in Syria until ISIL invaded Iraq, and the only aerial bombing since then has targeted ISIL
We did rush. 3 years of Assad's atrocities and nothing. A few months (was it even that...it felt like a few weeks?) of ISIS claiming a caliphate and the governments are in a frenzy to attack even though ISIS had not reached Assad's level of atrocities.
Insofar as the use of chemical weapons is deemed an act of genocide, perhaps so. I was thinking of the genocide in the sense of trying to eliminate an entire ethnic group which is apparently what the Sunnis have in store for the Alawites.
Whatever definition you have in your mind of genocide, the Syrian regime is guilty of the international definition of it (though governments may have tried to squirm away from the definition of genocide before, it didn't change the fact).
Elsner: “What’s the difference between ‘acts of genocide’ and ‘genocide’?”
Shelly: “Well, I think the — as you know, there’s a legal definition of this....Clearly not all of the killings that have taken place in Rwanda are killings to which you might apply that label...But as to the distinctions between the words, we’re trying to call what we have so far as best as we can; and based, again, on the evidence, we have every reason to believe that acts of genocide have occurred.”
Elsner: “How many acts of genocide does it take to make genocide?”
Shelly: “Alan, that’s just not a question that I’m in a position to answer."
....Mr. President, how many uses of chemical weapons does it take to cross a red line against the use of chemical weapons? That is a question you must be in a position to answer.
Obama should remember Rwanda as he weighs action in Syria
You realize that the majority of the Syrian Army is made up of Sunnis?
"Defections, desertions, and over 44,000 combat fatalities have reduced the Syrian Arab Army from a pre-war high of 325,000 soldiers to an estimated 150,000 battle-tested yet war-weary troops."
The Assad Regime Under Stress: Conscription and Protest among Alawite and Minority Populations in Syria
How many of the 150,000 people in the Syrian Army is made up of Sunnis? I also wonder how many of the 131,000 of the deserters/defectors were Sunnis. Furthermore,
"Analysis of the Syrian Army’s 2011-2012 military campaign suggested that the regime could only reliably deploy 65,000 to 75,000 of its troops in offensive operations, mainly elite units such as the Republican Guard, the Special Forces, and the 4th Armored Division commanded by President Assad’s brother Maher al-Assad. Meanwhile, regular army units – mainly comprised of rank-and-file conscripted Sunnis deemed ‘untrustworthy’ by the regime – were confined to defensive positions or limited offensives in close proximity to their bases."
The Regime's Military Capabilities: Part 1
The elite units are comprised mainly of Alawites. In any case, shame on any Sunni who is cooperating with Assad. No self-respect.
Evidence that government thugs trying to frame the Muslim Brotherhood were behind the church burnings?
No explicit evidence (btw, what evidence is there of Muslim Brotherhood being behind the burning of churches in the first place)...just the fact that the military/police (which was still comprised of Mubarak loyalists after Morsi was elected) is known to dress up as civilians and commit atrocities during Mubarak's era and now:
Pre-Morsi:
1.)
"Abdel Hamid was abducted by men in civilian clothes and detained in the basement of the nearby Egyptian Museum, Gharbali said. Another witness, Hani al-Azab, told the committee that he and Abdel Hamid were taken in armoured vehicles to the museum at about 6am on 3 February and were tortured and photographed with weapons and money. Before dawn on 4 February, Azab said, he and Abdel Hamid were transferred to a military prison run by a unit he named as Military Intelligence Group 75, where they were tortured and forced to confess to crimes.
Egypt's army took in torture and killings during revolution, reports show
2.)
the biggest of what has come out so far reveals something far worse: official government involvement in the Alexandria church bombing and in a 2005 resort bombing.
Docs: Egypt Security Bombed Churches, Resort
During/after the coup:
On youtube, search:
3.)
الداخلية فى مركز ناصر بـ #بني_سويف بتغير الميري عشان تصطاد المتظاهرين
and you'll see the police/military dressing up as civilians before continuing to shoot at people (presumably so they can blame the anti-coup protestors).
4.) The military/police accused the Muslim Brotherhood supporters/anti-coup protesters of pushing a police van, though this video shows otherwise:
5.) They had to make multiple stories about what happened when prisoners died:
Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna, reporting from Cairo, said: "The initial reports from the Interior Ministry said that armed attackers had attempted to free the prisoners. This was then amended to the fact that prisoners being transferred from a police station to another prison had overcome one of the escorts, and they had to be attacked to free that particular escort.
"Then the version emerged that prisoners who were being transported from a police station or stations to another prison tried to escape, and tear gas was used which led to loss of life."
Fresh Egypt protests follow prisoner deaths - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
6.) They lied about who attacked who first during the first dawn massacre (on July 8th, 2013....a few days before Ramadhaan) - though even if the protesters HAD attacked first, I wouldn't have blamed them since the new government is illegal and violent:
At the second kneel of the prayers, the attack began | World news | The Guardian
Yeah, people were upset about that. But if they had started beheading Christians they would have done more than get upset.
Do people even know about Assad targeting churches like they did about the Muslim Brotherhood allegedly torching churches?
I've not seen any evidence that Iran brought in those chemical weapons which is the legal basis for your charge of genocide.
They are aiding Assad and are therefore complicit in Assad's atrocities. Anyone who helped the Nazis would be complicit in the genocide they committed, right?
