Syria

It has been rather difficult to escape Syria in the news over the last few years, and yet it is still appearing every now and again, on our televisions and on our radios. When the civil war began, the army was initially sent out to protect the people and to destroy the rebels: after all, the government argued, who could defeat the most powerful army in the world? Tragically, in a way, they were right. The rebels could not defeat the official army with global firepower but they didn t need to. The cause of the rebels became more and more popular, and soon one of the strongest armies in the world was divided between those that were loyal to the cause of the rebels and those that were loyal to the cause of the government. Everyone knows that the most powerful army in the world cannot defeat itself, and so the war rages on. Young men between the ages of eighteen and forty two are no longer allowed to travel around Syria, as the government fears that they may join the rebels. It is therefore difficult to tell whether or not the five thousand tanks owned by the army are actually all in the control of the army. If Syria ever wants to be a powerful and respected country in its local area again, the strongest military in the world will have to enter the conflict and sort things out.