I am skeptical. Supposedly Assad was winning and taking it to the Rebels. So now he gasses civilians and kills over athousand? Why?
He gains little, but has much to lose.
I do not discount th rebels did this to gather sympathy for their cause.
The other suspicious thing is the timing- on the very day UN weapons inspectors show up. This is as real as Hillary/Theresa/Beau Biden head trauma.
I agree with you. I am rooting for both sides to lose, but it seems highly unlikely that Assad would want something like this. Why? His forces have had the upper-hand recently and he knows he loses if Western powers get more involved. The folks calling the shot for AQ (the side we are supporting - crazy) don’t care about Syrians so I wouldn’t put this past them.
Syria is a mess. We should have stayed out of the Arab Spring, but Obama had an ego moment when he thought the seas would stop rising and peons in the Middle East would faint at his greatness. Go back and read the transcript of Candidate Obama’s big Middle East speech when you need a laugh. We are more hated now than we were before.
What does he have to lose? Russia and China are 100% backing him across the board while the West, led by an effeminate community organizer can do NOTHING.
Russia will not let the US create a no fly zone, etc.
Assad can enrage the West and then, keep doing it. He has nothing to lose except citizens of his country and so-called Jihad rebels.
The rebels may have done it to time the visit of the DN (Do Nothing) inspectors.
I’m pretty much certain they did. Assad is the last person on earth who would order this.
>>>I am skeptical. Supposedly Assad was winning and taking it to the Rebels. So now he gasses civilians and kills over athousand? Why?
He gains little, but has much to lose.
I do not discount th rebels did this to gather sympathy for their cause.<<<
Not to mention Syrian military has somehow avoided using chemicals for so long and surprisingly used it not earlier than after rebels reportedly took over some of these weapons.
There is no reason to demonise men and women of the Syrian armed forces. Most of them are patriots who loves freedom, many of them are Christians. Their common goal is to keep a secular republic without sharia, stoning, beheadings and so on.
I’ll trust these people before ‘Allah Akbar!’ mob of ‘freedom fighters’ both domestic and foreign who came to their country from every Stan around.