[Right Wing Professor]

The Independent is hardly a credible source.

[JohnGalt]

And Lt-Col al-Dabbagh is rock solid?

It's a companion piece offered to gain some perspective. Too many people have been reading what they want to read between selected lines and that is a dangerous situation for conservatives to simply ignore.

[UCANSEE2]

True. It's credibility went lower when I read this....

The general, who would not give his name, conceded that authority may have been bypassed but said the frontline troops he visited were in a shambolic state and were unlikely to have received any additional weapons.