Posted on 05/08/2013 9:03:07 AM PDT by chessplayer
(Reuters) - The Syrian army captured a strategic southern town from rebel fighters on Wednesday after a ferocious two-month bombardment, in an advance likely to result in President Bashar al-Assad's forces regaining control of an international transit route, opposition sources said.
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Assad has a loyal base in the Alawites and other minorities in Syria, who know they will be massacred if the Sunni-islamists
take over.
He may have his back to the wall, but he is not alone.
Go, Assad!
Obama wants the rebels to win.
Go Assad.
Too bad both sides can’t kill each other off.
On 13 February 2013, the United Nations put out an estimate of 70,000 that had died in the war. Source
The Great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign Nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled, with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. . . .
George Washington on Foreign Affairs September 19, 1796
Assad has a loyal base in the Alawites and other minorities in Syria, who know they will be massacred if the Sunni-islamists
take over.
He may have his back to the wall, but he is not alone.
Exactly.
Or basically we have dimwits and traitors in DC who want to assist in genocide.
Obama and his cult want to arm jihadis with AKs and heavy machine guns, train them to install a muslim hellhole government, but at the same time want to disarm American citizens while demonzing in language that usually gets people sent to the Hague for war crimes, something is wrong here.
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