You know what happens when you try to climb a s***rope, jihadis?
Cool.
Now that the pawns are figuring out their “leadership” maybe they can negotiate a peaceful surrender?
Assad will likely remain.
I don’t claim to know much but he seems no worse than the options among the rebels.
US policy was successful when we supported moderate, secular strongmen.
Divergent sects in the Arab states, to include Maronites, Coptics, etc. among the many muslim sects and ancient religions had a place under previous US strategies
The Clown Prince of America has done much damage.
This is impossible. The CIA and Obamabots said that Assad was finished.
Revolutions go through generations, and unfortunately for the idealists, theirs is the first one to go. Assad would do well, IMHO, to offer the olive branch to the opposition, because they do have a function - they're his bulwark against complete control by the Russians and the Iranians. His family has, historically speaking, been quite good at that.
But I don't see a way out of this that doesn't confer Syria a client-state status, or more precisely even more of a client-state status than she has enjoyed heretofore. It isn't a happy thought for the Syrians.
It appears that something going on defensively by the helicopter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfMuBJBBWw
Americans simply need to accept the fact that Islam is incompatible with a democratic or republican form of goverment.
Sad commentary from those young people who, like so many young people, think they actually know what they are doing and what life is all about.
I visited Syria in the early 1980's when daddy Hafez was in command. Damascus was glorious. I saw a old man on a carpet outside a store. The old man was selling carpets. He had one of those old credit cards machines that swiped cards. I had a VISA and he took the card and that's how I bought a BEAUTIFUL silk Damascene carpet.
I did get sick as a dog there too. I drank some hot tea one of the store owners offered me. The cup was clean. After about 20 minutes I went to his bathroom--too much tea.
Guess where he had been cleaning those tea cups? YEP, in that toilet. Wow, I was SO sick. I wanted God to take me home. My fault for having that cup of tea -- with SUCH a clean tea cup. What an IDIOT I was.
The Syrians were great, just interested in making a buck. The doctor I had at the hotel was so nice. Hahaha, what a young fool I was back then. :o)
All Assad has to do is grant amnesty for information and this thing will be fairly over.
Can anyone make sense of Obama’s foreign policy? Seriously. It seems chaos must be the goal. Nothing else makes a damned bit of sense.
Seems obvious enough to me that were the people the United States has been backing to take over Syria, Christians and Christianity would have no home in Syria.
I see little difference in the rebels or the regime. I do however get a warm feeling knowing that 98% of the time when a death over there occurs it is one less enemy for us to have to contend with!!
“... disgusted with his commanders,..”
You mean Obama, or is it McCain???