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War in Syria
Austin Comesanas
Dr. Guy Martin
War
09/08/13

War In Syria

The war in Syria has become a worldwide focus point on other countries intervening with central problems within such societies. This Civil War has created plenty of attention to an abundant of countries and has some wanting to level out this problem of conflict for good. In early January 2011 the conflict began as a civil uprising in response to the Assad Government and its corruption and human rights abuse. Nearing the end of April, Bashar al-Assad started to launch full-scale military operations against uncooperative cities and residential areas. All of this continued to escalate to a whole other ordeal of problems within the country. Civil Wars have been part of this world for thousands of years with plenty of central political problems. Civil Wars have been arising around the world and they’ve all had different political views on certain matters that could not come to an agreement. The Civil War of 1861 between the North and the South arose due to slavery. The North wanted to abolish slavery while the South fought to keep it ongoing. More and more conflict began to come up and the controversy got worse and separated the states of North and South Carolina to what it is now. Some people will always seem to not be able to smell the same freshness of grass that was just mowed as others.
Palestine and Israel to this day are still in conflict with each other since the 1920’s. None of them can decide a peace pact that can settle their differences and all problems for once. The Jewish community has been for a while been in disagreement the Muslim community about living in peace together as a whole. There has always been such people that say things and make certain decisions that make others believe that something is or is not true. Thus, this creates havoc with another group and wars arise because of such people. It seems to be that without war there can be never be a stabile world that



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