
Originally Posted by
eliteforce
Actually they pretty much all helped Kuwait when Iraq invaded, US forces launched their ground offensive alongside Syrian troops, Syrians went in on the first day of the ground assault, so did Egyptian, and Saudi. Arab personnel were at the front in case of high casualties western politians didn't want it to look like allies were doing all the dying-but then casualties were light.
also Lebanon was never attacked by Syria, Syrian troops went into Lebanon in 1975 at the request of it's (at that time) Christian dominated govt (the pre1975 Lebanon regime was mostly Christian and it was backed by Syria and the west, particularly France) the US and France also encouraged Syria to go in at the time. After the Israeli invasion of 1982 (which left the country in ruins and killed 20,000; including up to 2000 massacred Palestinians at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps) and the failed 1983 US,French,Italian peacekeeping mission which ended in attacks on the peacekeepers, Syria continued to stay in the Bekaa valley; again in 1990 France and the US backed the peace accords that called for the militias to be disbanded and the Lebanese Army re-activated-Syria was tapped to go into Beirut and enforce it, and rebuild the Leb. Army with western backing-what followed was unprecedented reconstruction, until they were asked to leave last year, which they immediately did.
This grand mufti thing has been dragged out so many times, the real story who-knows and who-cares, but top general is an obvious exaggeration, I have also heard stories that hundreds of thousands of Jews were denied entry to the US because the Zionists insisted they go to Palestine and sabotaged their emigration, when that didn't happen, they wound up dead-I think such demagogy is pointless, none of it justifies the fact that Israel is a racist aphartied state, like some 5 year old Palestinian has to pay the price of this grand mufti a hundred years ago.
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