Re:Thousands of deadly U.S. military airstrikes have gone un...
by dmichulke on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @05:07AM
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It's not a "civil war" just because you have units of opposing factions operating in the same country. The problem with the "rebels" is that they are not considered better, I assume because of their secondary motives (fundamentalism, Sharia law, ...) [1]
Also, some of the factions seem to be heavily influenced / supported by foreign powers [2]
Taken together, every war is somewhere on a scale between "civil war" and "ordinary war" and just calling it a "civil war" doesn't mean it's necessarily one.
Of course, since war is unpopular, all interventionist democracies would like you to believe that it's a civil war and they're not meddling at all.
Also, some of the factions seem to be heavily influenced / supported by foreign powers [2]
Taken together, every war is somewhere on a scale between "civil war" and "ordinary war" and just calling it a "civil war" doesn't mean it's necessarily one.
Of course, since war is unpopular, all interventionist democracies would like you to believe that it's a civil war and they're not meddling at all.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aleppo_(2012%E2%80%9...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Syria#War.2C...