Posted on 12/18/2016 8:43:54 AM PST by Nextrush
I am the opposite of a war junkie, I loathe the sound of fireworks because they remind me of a bloody night in Lithuania in January 1991, where I lay down in dirty snow to save my skin from Soviet bullets.....
...the old cliché that 'the first casualty of war is truth' is absolutely right, and should be displayed in letters of fire over every newspaper reports of conflict....
Almost nothing can be checked. You become totally reliant on the people you are with, and you identify with them.....
.... we have been bombarded with colorful reports of events in eastern Aleppo, written or transmitted by people in Beirut (180 miles away and in another country), or even London (2,105 miles away and in another world). There have, we are told, been massacres of women and children, people have been burned alive.
The sources for these reports are so-called 'activists'. Who are they? As far as I know, there was not one single staff reporter for any Western news organization in eatern Aleppo last week....
This is for very good reason that they would have been kidnapped and probably murdered. The zone (rebel zone) was ruled without mercy by heavily armed Osama Bin Laden sympathizers, who were bombarding the west of the city (Assad government controlled) with powerful artillery they frequently killed innocent civilians (and struck hospitals, since you ask)......
The women are all but invisible, segregated and shrouded in black, just as in IS areas.......
British media refer to these Al Qaeda types coyly as 'rebels' (David Cameron used to call them 'moderates')....
....One of them, Abu Sakkar, famously cut out and sank his teeth into the heart of a fallen enemy, while his comrades cheered. This is a checked and verified fact by the way.....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
We could use a lot more of it considering these Al-Qaeda elements fighting in Syria against Assad and the Russians have too many friends in high places like John McCain and Lindsey Graham in this country.
Much truth here, but as the Latin phrase has it, Mundus Vult Decipi, the world wants to be deceived.
Syrian rebels have been firing on Assad’s refugee trucks which are trying to transport people out of Allepo. Of course you won’t hear that on TV.
In other circumstances I’d be happy to see Assad replaced.
But we chose as our proxies Al Qaeda, and Al Qaeda In Iraq.
And they have been systematically slaughtering Christians from the beginning. So it becomes impossible for any American to support this war.
It didn’t have to be this way, but through Obama’s sheer malevolent incompetence he has made it impossible to support the overthrow of Assad.
These proxies are our Frankenstein monsters. We have a responsibility to put them down like mad dogs. Trump has promised in essence to wipe out Al Qaeda In Iraq (ISIS), and let the Russians and Syrians deal with Al Qaeda In Syria. Too bad this leaves Assad in power, but if our brilliant plan was to replace him with genocidal monsters it is a plan that needs to fail.
Hitchens with Not Fake News. (#UnFake)
Are these “moderates” the same guys that McCain met with?
This has been a pet peeve of mine; news outlets bringing in people who couldn't know whats going on on the ground because they are no way near the action.
Fox news did this in the downing of missing flight 370 in Indonesia and CNN knocked Fox's ratings down by CNN actually putting on people close to the action, who knew something about the situation.
Another trick is to use people with British accents to tell Americans what's going on.
Like we don't have Americans gathering news anywhere.
Who knows maybe we don't anymore. - Tom
Hi, old timer. Good to see your post.
They are the friends of “McCain of Arabia”......
The budgets have been cut big time at many news organizations as ad revenue for television and newspapers dry up.
BBC brings in money from their cable revenues for “BBC World News” (the charge to the cable company for service every month) helping them to field a large force of reporters around the world.
CNN created worldwide service and coverage in its formative years including partnerships with local broadcasters in countries from Argentina to Turkey and many more.
And speaking of Juan ‘The Hanoi Songbird’ McCain, where are he and his constant companion, Linda Graham of SC, on the subject of their ISIS pigs slaughtering hundreds more innocents in Alleppo? Come on, Juan, you coward, why no response from you and your little companion?
Why did ISIS take back Palmyra despite BS stories the Russians were hitting them, now, we see the US has sent airstrikes to Palmyra.
Russia/Assad = ISIS
Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group fighting alongside Syria’s government, says the buses were burned during fighting between the al-Qaida-affiliated Fatah al-Sham Front and a rebel group that supported the evacuations.
Al Qaeda is there but they may not be the only militia there.
Excellent post. Agreed. And our own Sen. McCain was gleefully posing with those monsters including Abu Bakr.
“You become totally reliant on the people you are with. You identify with them” as Peter Hitchens wrote in this post.
CNN gave us the “Baghdad Bob” line.
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