[GonzoGOP]

You call it a town, but it’s the 3rd largest city in Syria, with a population of about 1 million people.

And you make my point. Do you seriously think you can drop a full scale artillery barrage, for a couple of weeks, on a city of a million people and kill 60? Have you ever seen what a hail of 155mm shells do to closely packed buildings? Go look at pictures of Stalingrad or Manila in World War II, that is what a city subjected to concentrated artillery looks like.

There is no barrage, they are lobbing in a few shells, perhaps some mortars. But the press is just trying to paint their Muslim Brotherhood allies as victims. If this were an all out bombardment there would be a lot more than 60 dead per day.

[deoetdoctrinae]

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[nuconvert]

Your comparisons are ridiculous.
There haven’t been any aerial attacks and no one has reported that there have been (with the exception of some helicopter gun ships shooting at people).
btw - the 60 killed were in one day, not weeks.

[Zhang Fei]

Do you seriously think you can drop a full scale artillery barrage, for a couple of weeks, on a city of a million people and kill 60?

You are right. In the early 80's, Assad pere battered Hama with tanks and artillery over the course of a month and killed 30,000.