Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Partitioning Syria into two governments and two areas?

I was watching PBS Newshour tonight and I finally felt like someone was suggesting something intelligent by suggesting that what might be accomplished at the peace talks is a partitioning of Syria, where the North and West (Including Aleppo) would be in the hands of a Sunni Rebel government and the South (including Damascus) would be in the hands of Assad and the Alawite Minority Government. Something like this happened during the Balkan War where partitioning of countries something like what happened in Bosnia and Serbia during the 1990s. This greatly reduced atrocities and humanitarian problems and tortures and deaths. However, then the Syrian Rebels would have to fight it out with Al Qaeda and other Islamists of the Sunni persuasion at least in Northern Syria.

However, this could be the outcome where Assad stays in power in a much smaller Syria in the south. It is logical because of what has happened in the past in previous proxy  war conflicts around the world especially during and just after the Cold War.

I don't really think it is realistic to push Assad out of Syria entirely because Iran and Russia aren't going to let that happen militarily. However, Iran and Russia might allow a partitioning of Syria as a marginally acceptable outcome as long as Assad stays in power in the Southern part of this partitioned area.

Though this isn't a perfect solution it might help the millions of displaced people around the world who lived in the Northern partitioned Area of Syria to return home to their previous lives (if they are Sunni Muslims). Like I said it isn't perfect but likely this might happen given all the variables on the ground there now.

 IF you want to read more about what happened during the 1990s in Bosnia, Serbia and Yugoslavia here are some facts from Wikipedia:
  1. Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Serbia was involved in the Yugoslav Wars in the period between 1991 and 1999 - the war in Slovenia, the war in Croatia, the war in Bosnia and the war in ...
  2. Bosnian War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    The war was characterized by bitter fighting, indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns, ethnic cleansing and systematic mass rape, mostly led by Serb and, to a ...
  3. Kosovo War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War
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    230,000 Kosovo Serb, Romani and other non-Albanian civilians expelled. Albania .... 7.1 Serbian war crimes; 7.2 Albanian war crimes; 7.3 NATO war crimes.
  4. Yugoslav Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs and Montenegrins on one ...
  5. The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Bosnia ...

    www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/bosnia.htm
    During World War II, Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and was ... A new leader arose by the late 1980s, a Serbian named Slobodan Milosevic, ...

1 comment:

  1. What you fail to understand though, is it was western-backed separatists and maneuvers which started those wars in the former Yugoslavia and Syria in the first place.
    The west wanted to destroy the governments and break up Yugoslavia, so it, mainly covertly, supported terrorists sending them weapons through smuggling channels ("former" CIA) financing separatists and terrorist bank accounts (Austria for instance had bank accounts for Muslim terrorists sending money and weapons to Bosnian Muslims), Germany was sending East German weapons to Croats, the CIA/BND/MI6 were training separatists, U.S. diplomats were advising them on the sides, U.S. advisers were involved in the wars in former Yugoslavia, and it was U.S. MPRI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Professional_Resources_Inc. which trained the Croatian army just before it ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of Croatian Serbs from Croatia.
    In Syria the U.S. has been training mercenaries from many nations to fight in Syria and they've been committing atrocities and basically destroying Syria and its infrastructure. It is also being financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

    The U.S. was also doing the same for the Libyan rebels - and look at the chaos and mess Libya is in today - but news media is quiet since news media is a TOOL for what the State Department wants.

    Basically the U.S. and certain NATO countries (along with help from terrorists and terrorist funders) will destroy and independent country and/or government it doesn't like.

    Yugoslavia was destroyed for many reasons: they wanted to break it up into little ethnically pure or divided weaker statelets to be more easily absorbed into the EU and dictated to. Yugoslavia was a strong competitor in the defense and construction industries and breaking it up was profitable for Germany's and others industries. Also, it was about expansion of U.S. and NATO bases and controls. Opening up the land/country for exploitation and to take the IMF loans which are generally harmful to a country and its people. And you'd see this if you understood how the IMF works.

    In regards to Syria, they are after it on their way to Iran. Also, for Israel's sake. Israel is giving weapons to the mercenaries fighting against the Syrian government. Israel is also treating them if they are injured.
    Despite the fact that many or radical Muslims and terrorists, they are simply a tool against Syria, which is why the west and Israel backs them.

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