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Maybe if the great powers weren't so busy playing geo-political chess by proxy there wouldn't be so many refugees. Syria was fairly stable before the west decided Assad should go. Syria was fairly stable before the west destabilized Iraq. This is the problem.

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Syria was fairly stable until its people made demands and their leader responded with gun fire. Not sure where you see the role of "the West" in that escalation. Do you think the problem was that the West sneakily infected Syrian people with the absurd idea that they could have the same rights as people elsewhere? Or maybe that the West failed to support Syrian rebels when they begged for it, allowing Assad to go on fighting his people for years and IS and other jihadist groups to gain ground in the country?

Most Syrians supported Assad. Also, many of the militant revolutionaries were imported from other countries and supported/trained by foreign powers including the gulf states. Now we have ISIS which is simply an extension of that program that has maybe gotten a bit out of control.

Foreign meddling caused this problem. Very simply.

> Most Syrians supported Assad.

That's interesting. When exactly and according to what survey did most Syrians support Assad? Do they still support him today or if not, when did they stop?

Well there was this survey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_presidential_election,_...

Also surveyed at that time were the million Syrian refugees living in Lebanon:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/05/28...

So what you're saying is that Arabs are too simple and stupid to make their own decisions about what they want and what actions to take.

Must be white people driving the events in Syria.

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