Why is the situation in Syria so complex?

All situations are complex. There has never been a simple war.

@PhiNotPi Just saying the magnitude is much higher than just reading about it in history books. This time I’m a young adult watching this unfold, and I can already tell the U.S. will follow through on the attack although most of us citizens don’t want this to happen! Especially the educated class of America.

@pleiades In that case, the history books never do a thorough job describing stuff. Anyways, that’s about all I have to add.

It’s even more complicated than that if you consider that oil is internationally traded with the US dollar and it’s really the only commodity giving our currency value right now.

Is it that complex? It looks like a rerun of Iraq to me.

Multiple factions & religions, rumors, threats, etc…yeah it’s a hot mess.

Because it isn’t happening in isolation. The religious divide between Sunnis and Shias is reflected in the wider Middle East. The two million refugees that have left Syria are having a big impact on the countries that have taken them. Also the major powers have taken sides. Russia and China favour Assad and the United States the rebels.
PS The UN doesn’t want to destroy the Assad regime. It wants a negotiated end to the conflict.

@glacial :: It is really nothing like Iraq. Unless I missed out we are talking about the real use of chemical weapons vs. making them up. And lobbing missiles instead of a ten year ground invasion.

It really only works out to being similar if you are trying to imply Obama is just as bad as Bush.

@johnpowell Well, I guess we’ll see. I’m not impressed that he can’t be bothered to wait for the inspectors to do their job. Sounds pretty damned familiar to me.

@DWW25921 Oh believe me I understand that this benefits all U.N. controlled oil companies! Some benefits include, easy access through the Mediterranean Sea, U.S. Navy bases in Italy provide secure access to and from Syria, Iraq, (later Iran). Saudi Arabia doing more business with countries around the world with safe security provided by the U.N. allies. More to add!

Would a U.N. strike against Syria result in Muslim take over however?

@pleiades More to the point, would it be a reliable takeover if they did, or would the oil just sit and burn? I can see nothing good coming out of this. There’s so much going through my brain I don’t know where to begin. So, I’ll just say this, we need to get out as far and as fast as we can! Yes, they’ll be an economic collapse if we do nothing but we’ve survived those before…

@pleiades Hi. About “U.N. controlled companies”, “security provided by U.N. allies” and “Muslim take over”. Can you develop?

@DWW25921 It doesn’t have to be Syrian oil necessarily there could be a better route and transportation to getting into Iraq’s rich oil fields and back toward the Mediterranean Sea.

@oratio I’m sure you may be familiar with BP (British Petroleum) and Royal Dutch/Shell fuels. The U.S. Navy is essentially a world police force on the ocean that dictates, commands and provides safety routes for large cargo ships across the world.

The Syrian rebels are Muslim. Some are reportedly having strong ties to Al Qaeda networks.

@pleiades I see. Seeing that Assad and the whole government also are muslim, with “muslim take over” you meant religious and sectarian extremists, rather than what makes up basically the whole middle east.

With “U.N.” in your previous post, do you mean “western” or U.S.? The U.N. is a global forum.

@oratio U.N. as in western. But of course all work mainly done by U.S. The rest of the world benefits from our trade and they get the ticklers of our healthy economy when applicable.

@pleiades Too true. Don’t they want to build a pipeline or something that way? There’s just so much going on over there it’s hard to keep track of it all!

@DWW25921 Yea well not the sexiest topic American media is interested in these days

@pleiades The media is useless… They’re supposed to report the news and instead report on Hollywood garbage. There’s a war on guys! Meh… useless…