Posted on 08/26/2015 7:29:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
On the day in May when Islamic State militants raised their black flag above the ancient city of Palmyra, the Damascus Opera House featured a singer in a rumpled black suit belting out traditional Arabic ballads.
Members of the audience were herded together so the half-empty auditorium appeared full on state television, and the crowd whistled, clapped and danced in the aisles for the benefit of the cameras. This week, as the extremist militants blew up a 2,000-year-old temple in Palmyra, the opera house in the capital 150 miles to the west prepared to open an art exhibit.
“It is great that we still have these activities despite the war,” a man in his 50s was overheard telling his wife during the performance in May. “Syria is always strong.”
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I'm not sure who should run Syria or if it should continue as an entity, but he needs to get out and live in the South of France.
Have no sympathy for the secularists in the middle east. They are either Marxists or Iranian puppets. Both are hostile to Israel, the only nation worth anything in that region. May be Kurdistan is another, but they will always be subjugated by others.
Yup.
“Dunston Woods comes to Assad”.
“Double bubble, toil and trouble”.
“Alas poor Assad, I knew him well”.
Hamlet to Yorick’s (aka Assad) skull, “What’s the matter poor fellow, tongue tied”?
Assad can say “never say never”, I check out this website that gathers stories widely from there:
Just two headlines from today.
“Warplanes carry out more raids on villages and towns in Sahl al-Ghab at the countryside of Hama”
“The death of a colonel in the regime forces during an attack on Abu al-Duhur Airbase”
I personally think the Regime (which is what most newspeak calls it) is holding on when they increase their bombing missions more and more (including barrel bombs which has been used in Iraq too). They hold on, that doesn’t mean it is working to their benefit.
They may be able to hold on, as it is, to what is the trade route from Iran through Syria to funnelling weapons to their allies in Palestine and Lebanon.
The Shia crescent: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0JUqv0c7j4I/S8Qhc9dq5TI/AAAAAAAAABw/H8fm7B-VmD4/s320/Shia_Crescent_sm.jpg
Okay, long answer, these threads don’t get much participation but those are my observations.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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