Tim Drayton wrote:I think many people tend to forget that the popular uprising in Syria against the Assad dictatorship started out in the form of dignified peaceful mass protests and the movement had a mainly secular nature. The initial protests began in January 2011 and snowballed until by April the regime could no longer contain it using merely police violence and mass arrests, and so the Assad regime deployed the army, turning a peaceful protest movement into a civil war. Ultimate responsibility for the outbreak of this civil war thus rests with Assad and his regime.
Drought and the Turks shutting down the Euphrates seem to be the main culprits
“Turks use most of the water of the Euphrates,” said Bogochan Benli, a water expert who worked in the Aleppo labs of the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas during the years of the drought. Aleppo and many northern Syrian communities traditionally also depended on the Euphrates for their drinking water, he said.
In Turkey, Benli said since the 1970’s the Southeastern Anatolia project has created employment for a poor and arid region of Turkey. It’s the main income-generator for the region and their water policy “will never change.” The project is an ambitious development of 22 dams and 19 hydroelectric power plants to irrigate and provide electrical power in nine Turkish provinces.
http://www.voanews.com/content/drought- ... 33068.html
How many times do you need to be lied to by the West before waking up?
This is ridiculous!
