Stage of warfare

[Dan Goncharoff]

What changed is that the anti-government forces are fighting back.

When people were being killed without fighting back, it wasn't a civil war.

DanG


On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 6/12/2012 04:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >The UN now terms the situation in Syria a "civil war."
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> >What changed, or when, I can't say.
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> Yesterday or today, obviously.  :-)
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> Joel
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> >On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com
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> > > To be honest, I'm more concerned about incongruous serialization
> > > (whatever it's called). I don't see the two actions as being alike
> > > enough to warrant serializing them.
> > >
> > >     VS-)
> > >
> > > On 6/8/2012 6:32 AM, David Barnhart wrote:
> > > > The CNN article this morning says:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Syria is engaging in crimes against humanity and drifting closer to
> a
> > > civil
> > > > war."
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is there a scale of events that measures when unrest finally becomes
> > > war?  I
> > > > would have called what's happening in Syria as Civil War some time
> ago.
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> > > > Regards,
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> > > > David
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