posted by
Fnord666
on Sunday July 16 2017, @02:25AM
from the all-your-face-are-belong-to-us dept.
An Anonymous Coward writes:
"Congress allowed the government to scan faces of foreign nationals to keep track of visa overstays. But now that's set to be extendedto Americansworrying some privacy advocates."
And the mess is what they and their allies predicted and want.
Not saying the Syrian Gov are angels. Far from it, but I doubt that the majority of the Syrian people want the extremists that will take over if the the US Gov succeeds. It's not like they can't see the results of the USA's "success" in Libya. I doubt the women making up 13% of the Syrian Parliament would want the ISIS in charge.
If overthrowing the Syrian Gov can be justified, wouldn't the Russians or China overthrowing the US Gov be justifiable too? After all the US Gov is evil and corrupt too and has been responsible for even more deaths than Assad's Government. It's hard for me to say that Trump would be a better leader than Assad... ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:14AM
Uh Syria is messed up because of the USA and its allies. Not really because of a higher than average density of idiots.
Years ago the USA wanted to overthrow Syria so the USA imposed sanctions: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/11/us.syria/ [cnn.com]
Then when the sanctions started biting, it sponsored the Syrian opposition: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-wikileaks-idUSTRE73H0E720110418 [reuters.com]
Then when the fighting finally started (I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA or similar helped start the fighting), the US Gov supplied arms to help keep it going: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?pagewanted=all [nytimes.com]
And the mess is what they and their allies predicted and want.
Not saying the Syrian Gov are angels. Far from it, but I doubt that the majority of the Syrian people want the extremists that will take over if the the US Gov succeeds. It's not like they can't see the results of the USA's "success" in Libya. I doubt the women making up 13% of the Syrian Parliament would want the ISIS in charge.
If overthrowing the Syrian Gov can be justified, wouldn't the Russians or China overthrowing the US Gov be justifiable too? After all the US Gov is evil and corrupt too and has been responsible for even more deaths than Assad's Government. It's hard for me to say that Trump would be a better leader than Assad... ;)