Posted on 09/10/2013 4:48:12 PM PDT by Third Person
Even before President Barack Obama put his plans to strike the Syrian regime on hold, he was losing the battle of public opinion about military intervention. Part of the credit, no doubt, goes to a successful media blitz by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and its supporters. In an interview aired on Monday night, Assad himself advanced his government's case to Charlie Rose, saying that the United States had not presented "a single shred of evidence" proving the Syrian military had used chemical weapons.
Assad has always been able to skillfully parry Western journalists' criticisms of his regime -- and, at times, it has won him positive international coverage. Before the uprising, the U.S. media often described the Assad family as Westernized leaders who were trying to bring their country into the 21st century. The most infamous example was Vogue's profile of Asma al-Assad, which described Syria's first lady as "a thin, long-limbed beauty with a trained analytic mind ... [with] a killer IQ." But even experts in the field went along: Middle East historian David Lesch wrote a biography of Bashar describing the president as a modernizer, before changing his mind during the uprising.
The carnage over the past two and a half years put an end to much of this praise -- but now pro-Assad media outlets have found a new way to influence the American debate. Assad supporters' claims have repeatedly been republished unquestioningly by right-wing commentators in the United States, who share their hostility toward both Sunni Islamists and the Obama administration. It's a strange alliance between American conservatives and a regime that was one of America's first designated state sponsors of terror, and continues to work closely with Iran and Hezbollah.
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It’s not adoration, just an acknowledgement that whatever would replace Assad would be even worse.
The jackasses who said that al-qaeda would take over Libya if we bombed Kadaffy are the same ones who now prophesy that al-Qaeda will take over Syria if we bomb Assad. They were wrong. Al-qaeda didn’t take over Libya. In fact the Libyan leader told us the truth that it was al-qaeda that attacked us at Benghazi when Obama lied and tried to say it was an angry Libyan mob. The terrorist Kadaffy killed scores of innocent Americans and Libya is better off without him.
“How Assad Wooed the American Right”
Yeah...here’s proof of that right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGU0bE4GKVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRhu4kSIwk
Assad din’t woo me, honestly, but Prince Jones Dimka from Lagos, Nigeria did, I readily admit, and for my cooperation he will deposit a substantial sum into the bank account number I forwarded to him last week.
The Foreign Policy Magazine is the CFR’s propaganda medium.
I thought Assad was a dentist?
When on reads on they’re blaming Rush Limbaugh, the Vatican, Jihad Watch - calling Robert Spencer an Islamaphobe, Mother Agnes-Mariam de la Croix...and lots more...
Duh.
No, he is by training, and I expect by inclination, an eye doctor. He was never meant by his father to succeed him, and I fully expected that no good would come of his doing so, and I have thus far not been surprised at the outcomes...
the infowarrior
What is a “Teabagger” anyway?
Whenever liberals use the term, they giggle like it means something dirty.
Stopped reading right there. It's a false premise.
Assad is not a “good guy”
But contrary to what the press says about him, he is not “in bed” with Iran. Iran hates anything but total subjection to the mullahs. Assad is surrounded by much more openness and people who enjoy living and appear prosperous.
Assad is closely connected the the Russians. Putin is doing all he can to protect him, and appears to be doing pretty well at that.
Is Putin a good guy? H No. But Putin is sane on some level and Obozo’s masters are not.
It was a long time ago, but wasn’t the MB behind the killing of the Shah? Or was it the Red Tudt Party?
I’m doing fine.
A little tired. Have been working hard days getting ready for fall planting season.
Thanks for asking my FRiend.
I don’t see supporting Assad and Putin in this as being any different that fighting alongside the Russians in WWII.
BINGO - neither side in this civil war are worth a rat's ass... or a drop of American blood.
George Orwell would need to write a few more chapter in 1984 to cover this latest turn of events.
The Leftists never had a “peace movement” or “antiwar movement”. Tell them Obama is going to send some missile strikes on Israel and they’d back him right away for standing up against the abuse of Palestinians.
We didn’t even have a declaration of war against Libya when Obama sent missiles in and supported the war crime torture, abuse and MURDER of a POW named Mommar Gaddafi.
“WE came, WE saw, HE DIED”
Obama then declared “mission accomplished” at the United Nations. How’s that working out for us? Here on the 1 year anniversary of the Benghazi terrorist attack?
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