>>Can’t really give the Syrians any grief on this. I think everybody would like to use some heavy weapons on the UN...
I’ve said for a while now that there are no good guys here, neither the Syrian gov’t, nor the “opposition”. The only possible good guys are some of the regular citizens hunkered down in their basements. The UN just makes it three sides we’d like to see lose, and not just two.
Daniel Greenfield wrote a nice piece on the news reports, truth, and the status of things in Syria here:
THE DEAD BABY MEDIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2890642/posts
“Anyone who has spent time in the Middle East knows quite well that parading around dead bodies is part of the Muslim ceremony of rallying for the next attack. These aren’t funerals, these are corpse parades and the corpses are often of unknown provenance, accompanied by calls for vengeance.”
I have been saying that myself through this entire “Arab Spring” garbage.
The choices were between corrupt bloodthirsty secular dictators and corrupt, bloodthirsty, Al Qaeda affilliated Islamic “Republics.” All things considered, we should have either supported the dictator, or supported the weaker side and prolonged the fighting until the entire country collapsed completely into civil disorder. When Moslems kill Moslems in large quantities, usually the whole world benefits.