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If you could ask the Syrian ambassador to the US a question, what would it be?
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This might seem like a more appropriate topic for the H/A forum but I posted it here because there seem to be more people who follow politics and global happenings in D & D. Move if deemed necessary.
The Syrian ambassador to the US is coming to speak at my school on Wednesday to discuss his views on the prospects for peace in the Middle East. Following the talk there will be a Q & A session. I'm trying to come up with some good questions to ask the guy. Obvious topics would be the unrest in Tunisia & Egypt as it relates to Syria, their interference for years with Lebanon, and their involvement with Hezbollah. What I'm looking for are ways to phrase these types of questions in a way that is not incendiary and that would require the ambassador to give answers instead of boilerplate bullshit.
Fire away!
The Syrian ambassador to the US is coming to speak at my school on Wednesday to discuss his views on the prospects for peace in the Middle East. Following the talk there will be a Q & A session. I'm trying to come up with some good questions to ask the guy. Obvious topics would be the unrest in Tunisia & Egypt as it relates to Syria, their interference for years with Lebanon, and their involvement with Hezbollah. What I'm looking for are ways to phrase these types of questions in a way that is not incendiary and that would require the ambassador to give answers instead of boilerplate bullshit.
Fire away!
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But then, I am terrible
Thats it boys pack up your bags the shows over.
That might seem incindeary however.
How bout:
"Ever heard of live and let live?"
or
"How bout you work with your people, take them out of the stone age emotionally, go through what most countries have had to WORK through to form a real nation, then we can talk like adults about how the rest of us are infedels".
I think you are mixing Syria and Al-Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda is the radically Islamist terrorist organization. Syria is the relatively modern, secular country of 22 million, whose leadership has usually had the same relationship with various Islamist organizations living inside it as a flyswatter has with a fly. Very rarely are the words "infidel" associated with anything coming out of Syria (considering that it has a sizeable Christian minority and the president is a Shia Muslim in a country where the majority are Sunnis), and I'm not sure how you can refer with the word "Stone Age" to a country with modern metropolises like Damascus and Aleppo.
Glad to be of service, and I hope nobody would ask this question from the ambassador themselves because it would make them look like a frothing mouth-breathing retard.
No, im not pointing the finger haphazardly at any muslim. I'm pointing fingers at countries that let this shit persist for decades in there country. There is a very fine line between state sponsored terrorism, and states that allow these organizations to continue to attack from within its borders and just pretends they have nothing to do with it.
If America had a group, lets take for example the KKK or a branch dividian like religious organization that was committing murder in other countries, do you think for a second that we would just shrug and say 'we cant do anything about it...not our problem'.
I said stone age Emotionally. they can have all the modern building and weapons they want, but if they still treat them like firecrackers, let them be sold or 'stolen' by Al-Qaeda then they are the equivilent of children.
Syria isnt our friend. When you get right down to it, neither is Egypt. They might not have made the front pages like Iran or Iraq did but I specifically recall when the towers fell on 9/11 and there was video of people watching, laughting and cheering the event, in the street, that video was from Egypt, not iran or Iraq.
He might actually answer that, as he might feel less accountable for his position.
Also: I'm curious.
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* Because a quick google suggests they've made notable progress over the last 10 years.
Al-Qaeda is Saudi-Arabian Sunni Muslim Wahhabi organization.
You know what they think about Syria? Secular, Pan-Arab, Socialist, multi-religious and multi-ethnic Syria led by an Alawite Shia?
They think they are scum and Assad should be hung on the city square, and half of the population along with him. They thought the same about Saddam and Iraq, and they think the same about Khamenei and Iran as well. Al-Qaeda has never operated within Syria and would probably be hunted down if they attempted to operate within Syria due to the fact that the Syrian secret police knows what they are doing.
They operate among Saudi-Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Yemen (their headquarters) aka. America's important military and political allies as called so by your own government. Al-Qaeda gets it's weapons there and they get their money from the United States - not counting the weapons and training directly supplied to AQ and it's allies by the United States in the Cold War.
Syria is not a friend of the U.S., but neither is it a friend of Al-Qaeda. There are more then two sides in world politics. I guess if you actually knew something about the region you might understand that. The Stone Age accusation does not apply here considering that most Syrians are better educated then you are from the looks of it.
DarkCrawler, I applaud your efforts. If they were aware of it, I think Syria's almost entirely-Arab Christian minority would also applaud your efforts for not portraying their country as some sort post-superpower-invasion civil war hellhole.
Question wise, I suppose I'd suggest, "What are your governments goals in keeping the Syrian economy strong enough to sustain the country? Has thought been given to a reduction in military spending?" Kind of ironic given that we're asking as citizens of the country that spends at least half of the world's total military expenditures, but military spending has been hurting the country at the expense of planned civil improvements--not an uncommon situation in the region.