Posted on 07/03/2015 8:06:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Syrian military has carried out a series of air strikes after rebel forces launched a major assault to take control of the northern city of Aleppo.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels fired hundreds of rockets and shells into at least seven government-held areas late on Thursday.
By Friday morning, they had made small advances, the monitoring group added.
But the Syrian state news agency Sana said the assault had been repelled and more than 100 "terrorists" killed.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
The Assad regime in the summer of 2015 is like the government of South Vietnam or Cambodia in spring 1975. Just a matter of time ...
And the Confederacy in 1865.
When Lee met Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse, he made it clear that if Confederates were going to be executed as traitors then they might as well fade into the mountains and fight a guerilla war for decades.
Grant was no fool. He said if you stop fighting now, the killing ends. Period. And so it did (for the most part).
Assad today in Syria has no such easy out. If the Alawites stop fighting, they’ll all be executed...every last man, woman, and child...by ISIS.
Yep. The problem is that 1/3 of Alawite Men of fighting age are already dead.
Severe.
Who are the ‘rebels’.
Interesting that the article doesn’t say who they are and who they are affiliated with.
Thanks MinorityRepublican.
Between Assad And ISIS, Syrian Christians Have Much To Fear
World Crunch | July 2, 2015 | Rana Rizq
Posted on 07/03/2015 8:40:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3307587/posts
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