Hello from Syrian Girl

Life is often paradoxical isn't it? Syria is torn between many groups and interlopers. The one thing that is unlikely to survive in Syria is secularism.

The rebels have all been forced to become Islamists in order to be effective. And the Govt. has had to import the Soldiers of God from Lebanon and Iran in order to fight back.

My dear, if you ever return to your beloved country you may be forced to cover your face regardless of who the victor is in the Syrian War.

 

The Blue States are the ones that tend to have Dependent People.

 

Welcome to PF. Your use of English is very skilled.

 

I hope your family is safe

 

Ha,ha, you have some facts to back you up? Well, hell no, because that isn't true. Do some research, so you won't post such ignorant comments.


Contrary to popular belief, those who make the most noise noise complaining about Federal spending and the programs said spending support, are in fact the same people who collect those Federal dollars and who coincidentally don’t want to give up the programs. Their states; the RED ones… receive more per dollar, than they give,as a recent New York Times article documents–even as fiscally conservative lawmakers complain about deficit spending–their constituents don’t want to give up the Social Security checks, Medicare benefits, and earned income tax credits that provide a safety net for the struggling middle class.”

The secret is not so secret after all, many Red states are really parasites and gold-diggers when it comes to collecting Federal dollars even though they are the most vociferous about government spending.MotherJones.com posts some wonderful maps that highlight these bloodsucking states who want you to believe that they are really against expanding the government spending that they crow about. Empty vessels really do make the most noise.
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/09/02/red-states-are-the-real-welfare-states/#ixzz2UXOgEwZN
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/09/02/red-states-are-the-real-welfare-states/

 

You claim your city is a pile of rubble, but it is cleaner than NY? Like I said, any state in the United States has its own little niche that is dirty, but that same state has some clean and beautiful places. The ME, not so much. Obviously NYC has something that your own home city can't offer you, or you wouldn't be there. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

 

Don't come to the US to make a living, and then criticize it. That's rude.

 

When you stuff 10 million people onto a small rock that is about 20 sq miles; you are going to get a lot of rubbish. Some areas are cleaner than others; but I travel the world quite a bit and have found most large cities to be rather dirty. The worst I have seen so far have been Mexico City and Manila. NYC is nowhere near as disgusting as those. You should take a road trip to Upstate NY. It's clean as a whistle up here for the most part.

 

Darayya is a pile of rubble, because it was destroyed during the war in 2012/13. If you actually followed the conflict, maybe you would have known that.

 

It's actually the exact opposite. Many of the Southern states get the highest amount of federal money for social programs and pay less taxes than they recieve in welfare and food stamps.. Here are the maps for food stamps and for welfare

 

If the SAA win, secular Syria will remain. If FSA win , then it's game over for secular Sunnis, all Allawites, all Shiites, all Christians, all Kurds.

Hezbollah is not there to occupy anything. They are not a threat to Syria, instead they are fighting for Syria. By the way Hezbollah does not force women to cover their faces. Hezbollah does not terrorize Christians or other minorities in Lebanon. Many Christians in Lebanon are now allying themselves with Hezbollah against the wahhabi/salafist groups. If you actually study the policies of Hezbollah, then you will realize that compared to wahhabi / salafist Sunni radicals, Hezbollah members are about as dangerous as sesame street or loney toones characters. They are actually progressive when it comes to treatment of women and minorities. I am not saying they are as progressive as secular Syria, but compared to what is facing Syria if FSA wins, they aren't quiet that bad.

 

As Salamu Alaykum.

Good to see a fellow Muslim here. I find the points you make interesting, in why you support Bashar. Though I have a question. And sister, I don't mean to offend, but doesn't it worry you how Bashars loyal soldiers and allied militias are slaughtering innocent sunnis? And the chances of revenge after the war if they win?

 

And on the side. What you say of Hizbullah, is embarrassing. When Sunnis form similar groups, they spend more time killing sufis and fellow Sunnis than actually the enemy.

 

She didn't criticize the US as a whole. She said New York was really dirty - and it happens to be a cesspool.
So she didn't say anything that was untrue.

Not only that, but some criticisms of the US as a whole SHOULD be made - a lot of things about this country are very wrong.

 

Now I know why you earlier said you would like to see Al Qaida with nuclear weapons. I was wondering why someone in USA would want to see muslims with nukes. Many of us Americans wondered how those people could learn to fly and then steal four aircraft and kill all those thousands of innocents. I am not alone in suspecting these terrorists remained very isolated within muslim communities and that the people they integrated with turned the other way and just let the events of 9-11 come to fruition. Explain why you are in USA and yet a proponent of Al Qaida having nukes. Have you been involved in any of these sleeper cells or terrorist networks? Do you live in USA but quietly hate our country?

 

For a large city NYC is reasonably clean. You don't know what you are talking about. Trash pickups happen daily, there are garbage cans everywhere, there are no coal power plants or anything that would leave layers of soot like you see in China, etc. It's just that 10 million people are going to make trash. No way around that.

 

Remind me where I said such?

 

I do know what I am talking about... I've been there...
You are right, though - the air happens to be surprisingly clean for a big city.

 

I was born and raised there. It's reasonably clean for a large city. My work takes me to a lot of major cities all over the world. On a 1 to 10 scale with 10 being the cleanest I would put NYC in the range of about an 8, and put it on a par of Chicago or San Francisco. In USA, I would say Los Angeles might have been the worst. The air was disgusting and the whole city (it's really a big group of cities clustered together) was like one ghetto after another. Atlanta was also far more disgusting than NYC, and I just spent 10 years living about 30 miles outside of downtown Atlanta. And there are wonderful things about NYC that make you want to overlook the big crowds and traffic. Museum of Art, the planetarium, the natural history museum, all those wonderful restaurants, broadway and off broadway, the shopping, and most of all the great people. On second thought, I give NYC a 10...... LOL

 

Really? I wasn't too impressed with the people (except a street vendor who made me laugh). I found Atlanta to be much friendlier. But maybe it's because I'm a Confederate at heart.

 

Actually I retract and apologize. I was sure that when we were talking about Al Qaida, Syria and Iran getting nukes in the next few years and you said something to the effect that you would trust them with nukes long before you trusted anyone else (meaning Israel or USA no doubt). But you asked me to find it, and my search of the comments brings me to it being Bishadi who said "i would trust them ********s over yu". I apologize.
http://www.politicalforum.com/lates...s-sic-not-all-they-seem-2.html#post1062673100

 

Atlanta is brutal. There is a lot of racial tension in the area, and a lot of crime is now moving from the inner city ghettos out into the suburbs. Inside the 285 loop is an ungodly eyesore. Lots of abandoned buildings, junkies on the street, crime everywhere, and litter everywhere you look. I was so glad to leave the Atlanta area. The only good thing about Atlanta is the gun laws. If you have a state permit you are welcome to carry in the big cities like Atlanta and Augusta. And no gun grab crap like just went down in NY. But for 2012 Atlanta was rated the sixth most dangerous city in America. On Bankhead Highway it's even illegal now to be seen going both directions within the same one hour period after the sun goes down because of the drugs and prostitution. They put signs up every few miles and they are busting any white people they see running up and down that road at night because there is no legal reason a white person would be inside the 285 loop in the middle of the night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Atlanta

Atlanta was recently ranked (October 2012) as the sixth most dangerous city in the United States among cities of about more than 200,000 residents. According to Forbes hast the city a violent crime rate of 1,433 per 100,000 and has experienced a violent crime rate rose of six percent in 2011. A reason for that is, amongst others, that Atlanta is lying on major drug trafficking routes and has suffered disproportionally from the financial crisis after 2008. Forbes claims FBI’s "Uniform Crime Reports" database as the source.

 

I haven't been in the rough parts... then again, I haven't been in the rough parts of anywhere except Toledo, Ohio. THAT was scary - there were parts of that city that a lone white boy couldn't possibly walk out of.
But I only visited the popular touristy areas of Atlanta a few years ago. The worst part of that trip was the traffic... nightmarish. It took forever to get ANYWHERE at rush "hour"(s).

I guess Atlanta is so dangerous you need guns at least as much as you do in New York. I wouldn't feel safe in any big city without one - how do you do it?

 

Being in NYC without a gun doesn't worry me. Luckily I am 6'6" and about 275 so people just leave me the heck alone. But if I was 150 lb woman or a 175 lb guy; I would probably avoid some of the places in NYC. But as big as I am, there were places in Atlanta I knew enough to avoid even when carrying a sidearm. Never been to Toledo. But I had a 1 year contract in Cleveland and loved it. Great memories. My wife and I would stay there every few weekends, and we would walk a few blocks to see the Indians play. Accenture put us up in the Perry Paine Apartments, so we were living large. I think the building was from the 1880's and was like the oldest still standing multi-floor brick apartments in America or something like that.

 

Well I can fight okay and I know my way around a fixed blade... still, I'm that 6'1" 175 lb guy you're talking about.
Yeah, Cleveland doesn't scare me at all - I've got Lebanese family over there, and the Mediterranean cultures that amalgamated there make for a very interesting marketplace experience. None of the are quite rich enough to live in the middle of the city, though.
So you work(ed) for Accenture? Security, consulting?