tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1621663264582084771.post8476831153126692357..comments2024-03-02T10:08:52.059-08:00Comments on The Boresight: The Plunge: Syria’s Decsent Into Civil Warobresciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09909484551945847103noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1621663264582084771.post-10049406917550928052013-04-27T12:25:21.006-07:002013-04-27T12:25:21.006-07:00Hi Anonymous,
The anti-Assad elements fighting ag...Hi Anonymous,<br /><br />The anti-Assad elements fighting against the government is indeed fragmented. By definition authoritarian regimes (sometime even democratic governments) often fail to recognize when to ‘ease in’ political reforms to avoid a worse problem, like what the Assad family has done to Syria now (with too many entrenched Alawite interests supporting the status quo). <br /><br />Now Syria faces a bloody and uncertain future – that could include external military intervention. <br /><br />Even when Assad falls, anti-government elements will almost certainly begin fighting one another.<br /><br />Some say Assads response to the peaceful protests nearly 2 years ago was throttled by Assads mother – Anisa Makhlouf (wife of Hafez al-Assad) - who urged her son to crush descent - like his father did in 1982 against the Sunni in Hama. <br /><br />Very bad advice indeed. You must ‘ease in’ political reform(s). Old fool.<br /><br />- Boresight<br />obresciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09909484551945847103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1621663264582084771.post-70349373315289897802013-04-27T12:20:30.862-07:002013-04-27T12:20:30.862-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.obresciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09909484551945847103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1621663264582084771.post-67910667078770144472013-04-26T17:11:48.062-07:002013-04-26T17:11:48.062-07:00I want to second the sentiments against the so-cal...I want to second the sentiments against the so-called FSA, and the elements which support it. It may very well be true that the Syrian leadership is corrupt and is not a commendable entity that deserves to endure (most or all governments fit that mold at some point or other), but I assure you that should the FSA succeed in ousting the government, Syria will be far worse off than it has been with Assad.<br /><br />Do not forget that much of the drive behind the FSA seems to be the overly-violent, radicalized brand of Islam that Western media would normally demonize as evil, which is by no means an injust response to their actions. However, that sentiment seems to be lacking in the case of Syria. Elements of the FSA are guilty of the murder and persecution of "undesireable" religious and political groups within the nation, including branches of Islam itself, and other groups such as Christians and Jews.<br /><br />Therefore, I think one must be immensely careful when picking sides in this conflict, as details are often very far from transparent. It would be foolish to side with the "rebel elements," which in so many cases are foreign fighters brought into the region to fight the Syrian government, or to dismiss the government of any potential wrongdoing when fighting the FSA. Without an immense degree of scrutiny, the outside observer may either blindly cheer for "freedom fighters" or a government which seeks to combat a "terrorist insurgency." Without a clear view onto the conflict (which is in itself an impossiblity, given the nature of conflict), the individual reader has a very hard time seeing what is actually going on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1621663264582084771.post-68773646150615110632013-04-02T23:36:33.621-07:002013-04-02T23:36:33.621-07:00Hi.
We think our reporting has been very accurat...Hi. <br /><br />We think our reporting has been very accurate and objective. <br /><br />I quote from this post:<br /><br />“However with the brutal crackdown in Bahrain (host to the USN 5th Fleet) this year, which included direct Saudi military intervention there, authentic calls from the United States for Russia to halt whatever support for Assad – seems somewhat disingenuous.”<br /><br />“In January 2013 Jihadists reportedly gunned down a top Syrian rebel commander near the Turkish border. This indicates (strongly suggests) that the FSyA are not (are not) 'Islamists' or 'Jihadists.'”<br /><br />Also there are powers that be in the Middle East that have strong US backing - that would frankly prefer the status-quo (of dictatorships) in Egypt, Libya and Syria. These dictatorships have a history of looking the other way regarding what has been happening to the Palestinians for some 50 odd years. <br /><br />- The Boresightobresciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09909484551945847103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1621663264582084771.post-18183169664691191452013-04-02T15:00:18.175-07:002013-04-02T15:00:18.175-07:00Are you kidding me the FSA & Al Nostru Front a...Are you kidding me the FSA & Al Nostru Front are a bunch of Terrorists"<br /><br />Since 2007, the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel have been documented as conspiring to overthrow the Syrian government by way of sectarian extremists, including groups "sympathetic to al-Qaeda."<br /><br /><br />While the West has attempted to portray the full-scale conflict beginning in Syria in 2011 as first, a "pro-democracy uprising," to now a "sectarian conflict," recent atrocities carried out by US-Saudi-Israeli proxies have shifted the assault to include Sunni Muslims unable or unwilling to participate in the destruction of the Syrian state. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1621663264582084771.post-26159827794874340182012-08-31T23:23:40.723-07:002012-08-31T23:23:40.723-07:00Why is assad a "monster" for defending h...Why is assad a "monster" for defending his government and nation from a group of foreign backed,in some cases actual foreign,terrorists,its funny that the countries that are supporting these people like saudi arabia not so long ago invaded and crushed the peaceful protests in bahrain,they don`t give a damn about democracy in syria this is about striking back at iran.Show me one government that wouldn`t do what the syrian one is doing if it was under threat by a rebellion composed of ethnic separatists and religious nutcases[wahabists].The people of syria saw what happened in lebanon in the 70s and what almost happened in iraq in the 2000`s and they don`t want a bar of it.Assad is no angel thats for sure but unless he can be peacefully replaced by a genuine democracy and not simply a pro western dictator brought in at gunpoint and kept there at gunpoint then the real losers will be the people of syriaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com