We've hit a new low in the USA. Today, we have celebrities like Mark Ruffalo (okay minor celebrities) who are attacking President Elect Donald Trump because of the violence in Aleppo. I'm not going to go through the list of all the attacks. Suffice to say that many of the usual very liberal Hollywood types are condemning the slaughter in Aleppo by the Assad regime and its allies (a condemnation with which any sane person would agree), but then blaming it on Donald Trump.
It's an amazing thing to watch. Remember, Aleppo is dying because for the last five years president Obama did nothing to stop this bloody tragedy. Obama could have acted at the start of the Syrian civil war and brought down Assad without much cost at all. Syria was nearly 80 percent Sunni Muslim, but Assad and nearly the entire government are Alawaite Muslims, a type of Shiite. After nearly 50 years of rule by the tiny minority and oppression of the huge majority, protests erupted in 2011. Assad responded to peaceful protests by sending snipers to kill people at random at those protests. The civil war ensued. A little help from the USA to the uprising would have tipped the balance against Assad quite quickly. Instead, Obama did nothing. As things got worse in Syria, Obama did nothing. At this point, Syria is basically destroyed, close to half a million people have died, millions are homeless or have fled Syria as refugees and the killing continues. The only one who has the power to have the US act right now is president Obama. Trump is not yet in office. So why would these moronic celebrities blame Trump for Aleppo?
I truly believe that the celebrities making these attacks don't know what is going on. They are total morons who lack a basic understanding of how our government works and of what has caused the Syrian disaster. Nevertheless, these Hollywood morons make statements that get repeated by other morons who also have no idea what the actual facts are. Blaming Trump for Syria is like blaming it on Fidel Castro or on the government of Peru. Maybe we could blame it on Matt Damon or Ben Affleck. It's completely ridiculous. It's like blaming slow economic growth on my dog.
There's been a big discussion in recent weeks about "fake news". This latest series of attacks on Trump over Aleppo doesn't even make it to the level of fake news. It's all just sheer idiocy. It's the morons leading the morons.
It's an amazing thing to watch. Remember, Aleppo is dying because for the last five years president Obama did nothing to stop this bloody tragedy. Obama could have acted at the start of the Syrian civil war and brought down Assad without much cost at all. Syria was nearly 80 percent Sunni Muslim, but Assad and nearly the entire government are Alawaite Muslims, a type of Shiite. After nearly 50 years of rule by the tiny minority and oppression of the huge majority, protests erupted in 2011. Assad responded to peaceful protests by sending snipers to kill people at random at those protests. The civil war ensued. A little help from the USA to the uprising would have tipped the balance against Assad quite quickly. Instead, Obama did nothing. As things got worse in Syria, Obama did nothing. At this point, Syria is basically destroyed, close to half a million people have died, millions are homeless or have fled Syria as refugees and the killing continues. The only one who has the power to have the US act right now is president Obama. Trump is not yet in office. So why would these moronic celebrities blame Trump for Aleppo?
I truly believe that the celebrities making these attacks don't know what is going on. They are total morons who lack a basic understanding of how our government works and of what has caused the Syrian disaster. Nevertheless, these Hollywood morons make statements that get repeated by other morons who also have no idea what the actual facts are. Blaming Trump for Syria is like blaming it on Fidel Castro or on the government of Peru. Maybe we could blame it on Matt Damon or Ben Affleck. It's completely ridiculous. It's like blaming slow economic growth on my dog.
There's been a big discussion in recent weeks about "fake news". This latest series of attacks on Trump over Aleppo doesn't even make it to the level of fake news. It's all just sheer idiocy. It's the morons leading the morons.
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