Because they said there was no civil war going on in Syria.
My brother studies in Hatay, a city near Syria. This city used to be a safe, liberal city.
Until the fucking "civil war".
Now, it's filled by a kind of some radical islamists migrated from Syria because of the "civil war". Now women and children in Hatay are afraid of going out of their home because their streets are full of aggressive and criminal North Syrian extreme islamists.
Check those links. This war is definitely not for democracy.
I don't know what the truth about the situation in syria is, nor do i think i ever fully will no matter how many youtube videos/interviews i watch, however from what i have seen of the government's response to the protests makes me lean towards thinking that government is not deserving of the power it has.
The power vacuum it leaves behind will be much worse for Syria than the regime. And that's not even counting the damage that all the external forces will be doing.
Please take a look at how Egypt is now. The new government all you internet activists supported is now willing to destroy the pyramids because "there is only one god" according to their crazy fucking mind.
FSA is even, and much more worse. You'll see what the evil beast once they get the chance.
Even now, there are disgusting videos of them forcing christians to be muslim. All their motivation is jihad. That people don't believe in democracy. They are actually the evil beasts.
Yeah, some of the militias aren't interested in democracy, and some are funded by external powers that have various interests in Syria. It's still a civil war.
As you can see the prove in my other comments, Free Syrian Army was established by a NATO sponsored Libyan terrorist. As you can see in their videos, these fucking terrorists don't even speak the Syrian dialect of Arabic.
We are talking about a global terrorist organization and huge manipulations made by NATO countries to legalize this terrorism.
Please go to do some research.
I'm not saying syria is or isn't one, but you got me thinking about how a civil war could very well be labeled terrorism and vice versa depending on the spin you wanted to put on it.
Incorrect: this is an external destablisation by NATO, Qatar et al. & a heroic defence by the Syrian people.
Who is training, funding & supporting the death squads in Syria? NATO, under the supervision of Robert Stephen Ford:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-salvador-option-for-syria-u...
Negroponte/Ford were resposible for running the death squads in central America in the 80's & Iraq in 2004 onwards.
If Mexico & Canada were sending snipers to the US & some libertarians joined in - would you call that a civil war?
Sure, there's all sorts of crazies involved now, but there are also still plenty of Syrians involved. Which makes it a civil war.