The tide in the US led war on ISIS has started to turn

Thanking him for killing more civilians and aid workers or......?

 

How many relics of the past have these guys destroyed. I hope there's at least accurate models if not precise 3D printing of all the lost artifacts and structures these guys destroyed. Just a f'ing shame.

 

For carrying the banner of white supremacist sacks of garbage everywhere.

Thanks!

 

It is being worked on, even using pre-Isis controlled photographs to create 3D images that can then be used to produce something. Trafalgar Square will be hosting a recreation in the coming months. Of course it is not the same but the idea is to at least raise awareness and preserve something more than photos.

 

That's very good to know. The loss of such valuable historical artifacts and structures is horrible. I feel guilty worrying about that with all the loss of life, but emotionally it really bothers me.

 

Yeah, it is weird but it seems like more of a violation. I guess because of however many wars where objects of historical value were preserved.

But now I see that the Arch of Triumph from Palmyra was already put up in Trafalgar and is now gone. I wasn't in London at the time so I missed it. Obviously such things are better to 3D scan before they become overrun by conflict so that reproductions can be more accurate but what they have done "translating" from photography is still pretty good. This is the future of heritage conservation and preservation even aside from conflict so we will have to get more used to giving up some authenticity of time for authenticity of physical structure at a certain time.

 

For turning the tide of war in Syria.

I dunno about that but he's anti-gay so I like him.

 

Turning the tide in favor of a brutal dictator who is one of the worst in the world, and has repeatedly used chemical weapons against his own civilians?

You are definitely on the wrong side.

Ask someone you know that has any kind of military intel on Assad. They don't have to give you specifics(because they can't) but just ask them where he ranks on the list of murderous, brutal, criminal, dictators.

 

Says who? There was no hard evidence on that. When Russia intervened, the deal brokered was on the premise that there was an absence of use of chemical weapons. Syria surrendered their chemical weapons cache.

US intel on Syria seems to be at the same level as WMDs in Iraq. Depends on how the military defines "brutal". On the same scale as ISIS? Doubt it. "Civilians"? Depends on whether or not they count rebel fighters with guns. Civilian death is nigh-inevitable in every conflict but it would be unfair to blame it all on Assad. We don't even know the values of the rebel forces the US is supporting.

For sure, though, if Obama had his way, ISIS would be running all over Syria and it wouldn't be a stretch to think that country would be another Libya.

 

Authenticity is already a difficult topic to wrap my mind around, so it's interesting thing to ponder with VR and 3D printing entering an age of mass adoption.

 

Everyone is like: Assad is such a bad guy for locking up political prisoners, but can I get some more of that ethical Saudi oil.

lol

 

Everyone? .... anyone ?

 

Nobody has said that merely locking up political prisoners is what makes Assad a bad guy. That is probably the least of his offenses.

 

You seem to be mistaken. Use of the chemical weapons was in fact confirmed by the UN. Yes Assad was supposed to have turned over all of his weapons 3 years ago, and yet the U.S. has been able to confirm that he's used chemical weapons attacks this year. He's been using chemical weapons involving chlorine because the chlorine itself is legal, but weaponized chlorine is not legal.

Your defense of Assad is disappointing. It is also laughable that you think Obama would prefer to have ISIS running all over Syria.

 

Maybe it's his stance on not forcing women into male-owned property roles that has people so outraged.

 

No, it has to do with using chemical weapons on civilians multiple times, murdering and torturing civilians, disallowing all political opposition. If you can support those kinds of things, that's on your conscience. I'm not going get behind any leader that allies themselves with that.

 

Who do you think Salafi Arabia is ruled by? The Syrian Civil War's rebel factions have received massive support from an equally, if not, worse familial dictatorship. Assad is no winner, but I'm not so blind to think that the takfiri militants he is fighting are angels.

 

I will make it simple for you considering how mentally challenged you are :
when Isis strikes civilians ,they are no better/worse than Russian . By supporting killing of innocents you are not any better than those who you root for

 

I'm not trumpeting the glory of Saudi Arabia. But as awful as they are, and as much as I dislike them, they aren't even close to being as horrible as Assad. The Rockets were closer to beating Golden State last year than Saudi rulers are to being as bad as Assad.