[Eleutheria5]

Now the Kurds will gain that independent state they always wanted, and the UN will be really upset. Silly Kurds, self-determination is for Palis, (and some times for tricky ethnic minorities).

[NormsRevenge]

How you say in
Arabic ‘Toast”?
Assad is short-lived..

but what waits in the wings?

[EGPWS]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday that his country, in the grips of an anti-regime uprising now in its 16th month, is in a “real situation of war.”

Seems to be a normal situation in the mooselimb world these days.

It's quite the coincidence....

Nothing to see here, move along now. /s

[tet68]

“Are you ready for totaler kreig?”,the state news agency SANA quoted Assad as telling a meeting of the new Syrian cabinet.
“Yea, hail Victory!” they cheered.

[ScreamingFist]

“We are witnessing a real situation of war

No Sh@t Assad. Perhaps you should have contemplated a little more before shooting down a TAF Recon F-4. The Turks have been itching for a reason to kick your a@@ for years because of Syrian support for the PKK......now they have it. And if your buds, the Iranians get in the way, they will mow them down like a power mower in short grass as well......Have a nice day.

[justa-hairyape]

However, he insisted that “when one is in a state of war, all our policies and capabilities must be used to secure victory.”

That appears to be a veiled threat to use his vast quantities of biological and chemical WMD.

[catfish1957]

In the Muslim world, the Turks are probably the group you’d least would want to mess with.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

God help us if islamists take over Syria.