Who are the Biggest Winners and Losers in the Syria Crisis?

[aberrant85]

The US and Russia just hammered out an agreement that, when agreed to by Syria, could eliminate its chemical weapons stockpile by this time next year. Carrying that plan through to a satisfactory conclusion will be a challenge, though.

Who are the biggest winners and who are the biggest losers?

 

[Chaddelamancha]

Weird. I don't see the Syrian people on the list. Seems like those not getting gassed would be the biggest winners.

 

[zimmer]

The US and Russia just hammered out an agreement that, when agreed to by Syria, could eliminate its chemical weapons stockpile by this time next year. Carrying that plan through to a satisfactory conclusion will be a challenge, though.

Who are the biggest winners and who are the biggest losers?

Obama is the biggest loser. This whole exercise revealed to the world Obama is a lighter than a featherweight.

There are no winners, but I guess you have to give the tip of the hat to Putin... who was, and still is playing chess while Obama is reading the manual, trying to figure out how to play checkers.

 

[aberrant85]

Weird. I don't see the Syrian people on the list. Seems like those not getting gassed would be the biggest winners.

Until they get shelled by conventional weapons and by terrorists. They should really be included as biggest losers.

 

[DaveFagan]

Syrian people are the biggest winners. Now thousands are not killed by tomahawks.
USA citizens are next for not having wasted billions and billions of dollars on another Don Quixote misadventure.
Rebels/terrorists are next because they will be the only side with poison gas.

 

[Painter]

No possible way to make a selection on this poll.
The "Crisis" is the civil war combined with the assistance both sides are getting from outside of the country. In the face of this... the use of chemical agents is extremely minor in comparison.
There are no winners or losers yet.
One could say that the Syrian people are the losers, but if you asked a Syrian, that Syrian might tell you he is glad to have the chance to fight, which in turn would make him a winner, even if he loses... because he got what he wanted... a chance.

The United States never stood to win anything. So we can not possibly be winners, regardless. But we did avoid becoming losers. However, Some Americans wanted to be involved in the Syrian War, potentially a war with Iran, and possibly even Russia. So if that is what those Americans wanted, then I suppose to them, we did not avoid becoming losers. To them, we lost already by way of non action.

Russia Loses if Assad loses due to financial and and global strategic aspects. And they win if Assad wins. But no one has won yet.

Winning and Losing is a completely relative viewpoint.
In order to answer the poll, we'd have to know who's vantage point we are viewing it from. Then we'd have to wait until the crisis is actually over. Get back to me in another 2 or 3 years.

 

[Surtr]

None of the above. Nobody wins, and the biggest losers are the people who will get killed and maimed by yet another pointless and unjustifiable war.

 

[Medusa]

l knew there was a gamble over syria

 

[sbrettt]

The US and Russia just hammered out an agreement that, when agreed to by Syria, could eliminate its chemical weapons stockpile by this time next year. Carrying that plan through to a satisfactory conclusion will be a challenge, though.

Who are the biggest winners and who are the biggest losers?

I think in Syria everyone loses because no matter what it is a slaughter there.

 

[Rainman05]

The only entity that matters is the people of Syria, and unless the rebels are stopped and also Assad dethroned, they are all on the losing side.

 

[Coin]

A good negotiation is one in which both parties leave slightly disappointed. :neutral:

 

[Jredbaron96]

The people who get caught in the middle of a war are always the biggest losers.

 

[chromium]

I guess the loan elderly guy on campus mumbling "No war in Syria" all day is the biggest winner. Got what he wanted.

 

[ecofarm]

I guess the loan elderly guy on campus mumbling "No war in Syria" all day is the biggest winner. Got what he wanted.

Umm... there's still war in Syria.

 

[chromium]

Umm... there's still war in Syria.

pretty sure he was referring to US intervention, else he'd be out there protesting for a couple years now

 

[Smeagol]

The Syrian people are the biggest loser, especially the 100,000 dead and their loved ones left to mourn their loss of life. Those who now suffer disabilities. There are other losers too but not what I would call the biggest. I don't think there are any winners.

 

[shrubnose]

The Syrian people are the biggest loser, especially the 100,000 dead and their loved ones left to mourn their loss of life. Those who now suffer disabilities. There are other losers too but not what I would call the biggest. I don't think there are any winners.

I totally agree.
When the Syrian civil/religious war comes to an end there will be no winners.

 

[ecofarm]

I totally agree.
When the Syrian civil/religious war comes to an end there will be no winners.

They'll long for the days of being bombed, gassed and otherwise slaughtered. They'll remember with fondness the roar of the rifles taking dozens at a time. They'll languish in fledgling democracy, human rights and development projects. And they'll say, "ah, children, we lived in the good ole days!"

 

[The Mark]

They'll long for the days of being bombed, gassed and otherwise slaughtered. They'll remember with fondness the roar of the rifles taking dozens at a time. They'll languish in fledgling democracy, human rights and development projects. And they'll say, "ah, children, we lived in the good ole days!"

the old days are always good, no matter how bad they were.


But regarding syria....not sure who really won here - do we really know who used gas on the people?
Those guys probably won, because they used gas and got away with it....I suppose in a way the people are winning, if the current government gives up it's gas weapons.

I really didn't like the idea of the US supporting the opposition, since so far as I understand, the opposition is....AQ.

Then again, I suppose it could be a nice branch of AQ....possibly...kinda weird though.

 

[ecofarm]

I really didn't like the idea of the US supporting the opposition, since so far as I understand, the opposition is....AQ.

Then again, I suppose it could be a nice branch of AQ....possibly...kinda weird though.

30-75% of the rebels are moderates.

 

[The Mark]

30-75% of the rebels are moderates.

Yet, if they are moderate extremists...:mrgreen:

 

[ecofarm]

Yet, if they are moderate extremists...:mrgreen:

Islamist =/= extremist.

 

[Navy Pride]

The US and Russia just hammered out an agreement that, when agreed to by Syria, could eliminate its chemical weapons stockpile by this time next year. Carrying that plan through to a satisfactory conclusion will be a challenge, though.

Who are the biggest winners and who are the biggest losers?

That is yet to be determined.

 

[Jetboogieman]

The people of Syria are the biggest losers.

To talk of winners in such a destructive conflict seems shrill to me at this time.

 

[shrubnose]

They'll long for the days of being bombed, gassed and otherwise slaughtered. They'll remember with fondness the roar of the rifles taking dozens at a time

. They'll languish in fledgling democracy, human rights and development projects. And they'll say, "ah, children, we lived in the good ole days!"

Didn't Donald Rumsfeld say "Democracy is messy?"