Posted on 05/01/2014 7:05:11 AM PDT by marshmallow
But Agreement Between Jihadists and Kurdish Militia May Bring Hope
Attacks have intensified in recent days in the Syrian city of Aleppo due to military retaliation and incursions by rebels.
The central districts and the Old Town, where rebels are trying to advance, were devastated on April 27.
“It looked like an earthquake,” Armenian Catholic Archbishop Boutros Marayati told Fides. He said it was the "biggest explosion" he had witnessed and was aimed at the local government headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce. The organisation "was once one of the driving forces of the economic dynamism," he said.
The archbishop added: “The explosive device was placed to hit the building, and stones and debris were thrown at a great distance. The effect was also strongly felt in our neighborhoods, terrorizing everyone.”
Rebels fired mortars against Aleppo’s districts, which are controlled by the government’s army, killing more than 21 civilians.
Responding to the attack, military units loyal to Assad increased their operations in insurgent-controlled areas in an effort to stop their infiltration in rural and urban areas under regime-control.
Yet news of an agreement between Islamist anti-Assad factions and Kurdish militias might affect the development of the conflict in many areas of northern Syria, Kurdish sources reported.
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When it’s all over Assad will inherit a country that is devastated and demand the West help him rebuild.
How does it go—sudden terror and then in one hour gone?
I could have looked it up but I am sure everyone is familiar with the reference to the burden on Damascus...
“When it’s all over Assad will inherit a country that is devastated and demand the West help him rebuild.”
AND WE SHOULD. We CAUSED this civil war, so we might as well compensate for all the damage.
Syria was actually doing VERY WELL economically before we (actually Hillary) started that war. Now they’re a WRECK. It is time we make them whole.
Umm. Huh? Satire, right?
“Umm. Huh? Satire, right?”
What part. I think that I stated FACTS. Syria was doing fine economically, and we started the civil war that we (now) don’t even want our side to win.
Who’s fault is that?
How?
You need to read-up a bit on the situation in Syria, particularly before the civil war, if you have trouble understanding what I’ve stated.
I think it’s fair to say we were backing the “rebels” for a while, but then pulled out (support), for some winds of doctrine reason only Hillary! knows, but before we realized (or really the dummies in charge realized) the mistake of withdrawing support, all the “good” rebels (i.e. Pro West ones) were killed off and/or dispersed. Then just as about the last of them were gassed by Assad, Obama draws his red line (ooo, scary), the Al-Queda backed “rebels” picked up the fight against Assad and before the Boy-Wonder President realized it, he had the worst “lesser of two evils” choice ever, in the history of the world to make: back Assad or back Al-Queda loving rebels.
That’s how.
From the MSM?
In any event Syria is almost totally destroyed.
“From the MSM?”
No, actually if you look at the pictures from there in areas that haven’t been damaged, you see a VERY WEALTHY society, with most apartment now having split-system air conditioners. Those are NOT CHEAP to buy or install and certainly not cheap to operate. If people now have them, then they are doing quite well.
The question is whether ANYTHING AT ALL has been accomplished by starting a civil war there. I say not.
The “good rebels” would have gotten their BUTTS KICKED, just as they did in Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt.
If it happens enough, then our government should be able to figure out that, while we may be able to topple a leader, we have NO POWER to choose who winds up taking over. Not even close. Like Libya and Egypt, the “good guys” never stood a chance. It’s only good that they were defeated, this time, BEFORE the government was overthrown. I am sick of seeing people ENSLAVED as they are now, even in Iraq (since we left there).
Well from Syria to Benghazi. Will be interesting how the MSM and Hillary will spin all this.
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