""I think they (Syrian government) are finally realizing that their Machiavellian strategy of working with the Islamic State group against the moderates did not work so well, and so they have started to fight it," said Andrew Tabler, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.""
This war reminds me of Monte Python’s Dandis Moore redistribution of wealth skit.
Utter propaganda to pretend that Assad instead of Obama worked with ISIS.
For quite a long time now, we’ve been told by Putin and Assad supporters on FreeRepublic that one of the reasons they supported Putin is that he supports Assad. As the story went, Assad was a real anti-Al Qaeda fighter. He was a defender of our Lord Jesus Christ, Christians in Syria, and a swell dude. Yet the reality is that Assad’s been in an alliance against with ISSIS againt the non-al Qaeda fighters. Assad’s been aligned with ISIS (the al Qaeda on steroids bunch) for a long time now. Obviously, Vladimir Putin, President for Life, retired KGB Colonel of 16 years, son of a secret police father who faithfully served Stalin, and all round neat guy without a shirt, as the story went was the great defender of humanity, the Russian Orthodox Christian Faith, and the dumbed down Russian chauvinism of the Putinistas. But he was also unconcerned that Assad was, to put it mildly, pursuing a war against those whose crime it is to want Assad and al Qaeda defeated. That’s why some of us oppose Assad, Putin, and Obama.
>>”I think they (Syrian government) are finally realizing that their Machiavellian strategy of working with the Islamic State group against the moderates did not work so well, and so they have started to fight it,” said Andrew Tabler, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
I guess they assume people really are stupid enough to believe this. They’re probably right.