Robert Fulford, National Post: Assad’s victory is at hand
More than a quarter of a million Syrians have been killed since the Arab Spring of 2011 set the stage for the civil war in Syria. About 11 million other Syrians have been forced from their homes by the fighting. About four million have left the country in an attempt to find safety elsewhere. As a UN report recently put it, Syria is a “fractured state on the brink of collapse.”
Russia and the U.S. have jointly announced that a cessation of hostilities in Syria will, probably, come into effect at midnight Friday. Russia has agreed to convince the Syrian government and its Iranian allies to stop fighting. The U.S. has agreed to get a similar undertaking from the factions that, with some U.S. help, have been fighting against the Syrian government.
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WNU Editor: After five years of war Assad is still alive .... if that is the metric that is used in gauging success and victory .... then he has been victorious. But the future is still not set .... there are many who want him dead for the misery and suffering that he has caused, and I will not be surprised if one day someone will finally "get to him". So yes .... victory is at hand for him, but the costs of this war will continue long after it is over.
Many Syrians have now had the experience of living under various versions of an Islamic State,
ReplyDeleteAnd it turned out not to be the, peaceful, inclusive, semi-democratic, romanticised and idealized version that the mythology of the failed Muslim Brotherhood Uprising created.
One aspect of the Syrian Civil War, rarely discussed, is the Rural vs. Urban aspect of the conflict.
Assad has a lot to be held accountable for. Most of it from before this "revolution" broke out. Cozying up to the real dictators on this planet through helping out with renditions (just like Qaddafi), and pushing neo-liberalism for instance. He has not since been targeted for what was going wrong in Syria but for what was going right e.g. cracking down on mental cases and closer ties with traditional allies. The Syrians and others have learned a very hard lesson about Jim Crow. You can play Snow Flake all you want, even have dinner in the Big House, but you will always be ^^^^^^s.
ReplyDeleteNeo-liberal policies were doing their job in Syria
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/08/in-syria-follow-the-money-to-find-the-roots-of-the-revolt.html
http://bennorton.com/the-anti-imperialist-nations-of-iran-syria-and-libya-participated-in-the-cia-torture-program/
Incidentally, I wonder if the proxy sponsors of the Syrian disaster ever worry about someone "getting to them"?
All these numbers and the UN statements come from unverified sources, principally the "Coventry clothier" who calls himself the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and they neglect to assign the necessary blame for the continuation of this bogus 'civil war' to the US, which pulls the UN strings.
ReplyDeleteUN report: "Syria is a “fractured state on the brink of collapse.” Not hardly. Assad has held the center of the country even under a full assault from the US and its allies, the Syrian people and the government and the Syrian Arab Army (much of it Sunni) have stood by him.
Syria is a “fractured state on the brink of collapse? No. Reminds me of Frederic Hof's (US State Dept) statement to the Congress in December 2011: “Our view is that this regime is the equivalent of dead man walking.”
All this because Syria is an Iran ally and must be destroyed, the US has demanded.