Posted on 09/10/2013 9:46:24 AM PDT by maggief
* Government air strikes back ground forces in rebel-held suburbs
* Activists say first air raids in Damascus since before gas attack
* Assad opponents say shows he no longer fears imminent U.S. strike
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
AMMAN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Syrian warplanes bombed rebel suburbs of Damascus on Tuesday for the first time in three weeks, in an offensive that opposition activists said showed President Bashar al-Assad no longer feared attack by the United States.
Not seen in action around the capital since before Aug. 21, when hundreds of people were killed in a poison gas attack that Western powers blame on Assad, government jets mounted attacks on three areas, some in support of assaults on the ground.
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good idea
give Putin a 20 minute rebuttal after barry done flapping his gums
or assad
would sooner listen to either of them than some GOP rino, especially McQueeg
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He is so incompetent he will continue to bungle Syria. There are yet many more gaffes for Hussein and Kerry to make on Syria and other topics. <8^/
Mostly Iran backs Assad to stick it to the sunnis and the Saudis, to flank Iraq, and to allow their militant militias a foothold to organize against Israel and to give them an air bridge into Europe Africa and the Med
Assad would not let Hezbollah do to Syrians what Morsi and the MB tried to do in Egypt
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Agent Orange, Mustard Gas, Botox -->
Oh, wait, Kerry has all of the Botox.
Alawites in Syria outnumber Shiites in Lebanon and Syria put together. And obviously every Alawite male has received some formal military training, whereas Hezbollah is basically a jumped-up militia numbering perhaps 12,000 people. Military-age Alawites (16-50) are probably 500K, all of whom have some basic training. Hezbollah gets airtime because it's notorious, but its effect on the war is probably marginal. Ultimately, for Assad to have a sustainable peace if he wins, he needs to do to the Sunni Arabs something similar to what the Israelis did to the Pallies in 1948, convince the vast majority to leave for friendlier locales like Turkey, Jordan and other Sunni Arab countries.
There’s lotsa empty space out there between eastern Syria and western Iraq
Give ‘em an AK-47, 40 acres and a camel
Meanwhile in the U.S. the ACLU and other Progressive groups plan more lawsuits against public displays of the Christian faith.
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Thank you for clearing up the typo! I probably spent 5 or so minutes trying to figure it out - breaking it down in parts, etc.
Then, figured it was a word I just hadn't seen before!
*snicker*
...and does anybody think that, if this were a US revolt, that forces loyal to the government wouldn’t do the same? Or that the government, which condemns this elsewhere, wouldn’t feel justified in ordering it be done here?
Then why are our politicians so busy “deploring”, when they would do the same?
"The ship is sinking and all of us, the Lebanese, should stick together and work together to stop the Israeli aggression," Amin Gemayel, a Maronite Christian who served as president from 1982 to 1988, told the Arabic-language TV station Al-Jazeera . . . Michel Aoun, a one-time commander in Lebanon's 15-year civil war who now serves in parliament, said . . . "I don't think that Israel has the capability to destroy Hezbollah militarily because Hezbollah is not a group of armed men," Aoun said. "Hezbollah is a major part of the Lebanese social fabric."
Lebanon Turns to the Vatican to Halt Israeli Offensive
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668754/posts
Vatican Condemns Israel for Attacks on Lebanon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665678/posts
On the Syrian-Lebanese-Iranian alliance.
Lebanon Is NOT Innocent (David Horowitz Slams The Lebanon “Innocent Bystander” Myth Alert)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671142/posts
Ground to a Halt (Research shows: Suicide-bombers Communists, not Islamists
New York Times ^ | August 3, 2006 | ROBERT PAPE
Posted on Wed Aug 9 01:23:46 2006 by GodGunsGuts
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In writing my book on suicide attackers, I had researchers scour Lebanese sources to collect martyr videos, pictures and testimonials and the biographies of the Hezbollah bombers. Of the 41, we identified the names, birth places and other personal data for 38. Shockingly, only eight were Islamic fundamentalists. Twenty-seven were from leftist political groups like the Lebanese Communist Party and the Arab Socialist Union. Three were Christians, including a female high-school teacher with a college degree. All were born in Lebanon.
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Robert A. Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is the author of “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.”
(AGI) - Berlin, Aug. 26 - After having a protagonist role for peace in Lebanon Italy asks to take part in the 5+ 1 group that negotiates with Iran on nuclear. Foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema in an interview to "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" asks a place near to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. "We are Iran's most important commercial partners with Germany and we are pledged in Lebanon with Hezbollah. So we have the right to be included in the negotiation with Iran. The goal is not a new conflict but talks aimed at preventing Iran from having an atomic bomb, he said. Italy searched for a greater G8 involvement in the negotiation with Iran but it remained excluded from the 5 plus 1, the group that started a negotiation with Tehran offering incentives in exchange for the suspension of the uranium enrichment program. This exclusion was due to the fact that Rome was not part of the European trio (France, Germany and UK) that had tried the first mediation with Tehran and represented the EU in the 5 plus 1. D'Alema remembered that the United Nations and the EU had not a role in the Iraqi crisis, and warned that the new opportunity in Lebanon could not be missed now. "It is a very difficult mission full of unknown points but it is worth pledging or the only alternative would be a new burst of war" he said. The foreign minister, was sceptical on the possibility of a new UN resolution for the mission in Lebanon asked by the US. "I'm sceptical about it, because in these situations they always open long negotiations. The strategic plan is clear and the resolution was completed defining the rules of engagement. If they will make a new resolution soon I agree with them but the most important thing is getting there as soon as possible (In Lebanon)" he said.
As a student of a Catholic high school, the Sisters of Loretta taught me, I am pleased to be at an institution of higher education with such strong and celebrated Catholic and Jesuit traditions . . . You see, I got my Master's Degree at Notre Dame. (Boos.) I acquired a passion for the fighting Irish . . . and my family has been college educated and Presbyterian ever since. (Laughter and applause.) . . . I wandered into a course on international politics taught by a Czech refugee who specialized in Soviet studies, a man who had a daughter by the name of Madeleine Albright. With that one class, I was hooked. I discovered that my passion was Russia and all things Russian.
Rice Calls for Israeli Restraint
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665489/posts
US Supplies Fatah With Arms, Rice Decries “Occupation”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718348/posts
US pressure prompts delay of [Israel’s] offensive (”We do not want escalations” - White House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680983/posts
U.S. Directs Criticism at Israel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680666/posts
Don’t Be a Sucker : U.S. War Department (1947)
http://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947
With the Sunni rebels destroyed, the Syrian government will give the Russians more control of Syria and its ocean ports. Then, the nations will look southward to Jerusalem with their jealousy of 1000s of years and their own worst kind of rebellion. The attitude has been intensifying and growing since about 2004. The largest Christian churches (and many of the small ones) in the U.S.A. and around the world have called for divestment from Israel.
oh now that is quote-worthy
and remember Kerry stepping aboard his $100,000,000 custom yacht this summer while Syrians (and Egyptian Christians) were being killed by “conventional” weapons
bump
There are no good guys in this.
Not even Obama is a good guy in this.
The rebels are the classic evil, they murder and behead and mass rape minorities, like the 2.5 million Christians.
I would not take either side, but I am definitely not on the side of Al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood.
Death by nerve gas = unacceptable.
Crushed to death in the rubble of a building destroyed by a conventional bomb (while sleeping peacefully in your bed) = the approved Progressive method of murdering children.
LOL
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