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 So Much for Progress in SyriaPosted on Nov 3, 2011
Just a day after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared to concede to an Arab League-brokered plan to decrease violence between government forces and protesters, it was clear that the opposition was right in maintaining a skeptical stance. By Thursday, the situation in Syria was back to full-blown crisis mode, if that actually ever let up as a result of the Arab League’s accord, and although reports varied, anywhere from nine to as many as 16 people were killed after tanks armed with machine guns rolled into the increasingly volatile city of Homs. —KA
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By blogdog, November 5, 2011 at 1:22 am Link to this comment
RE: ...never met a brutal dictator they didn’t love.. Pinochet was far
from lovable - guess it’s a matter of whose SOB he is - but, as for the co-called
Arab Spring… e.g.
Arab Spring: Revolutions, Lies, and Intervention
by Devon DB
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26302
[...]
For the past five to six years, the US policy toward Syria has used what could be
called a two-pronged strategy to push for regime change. The US has
supported “civil society” activists or external opposition organizations. It has
also worked to delegitimize, destabilize and isolate the country through the
application of sanctions and various other measures, which could be applied to
exploit vulnerabilities. [29] (emphasis added)
One “civil society” organization that is being used by the US is the Movement
for Justice and Development (MJD), which is “closely affiliated with the London-
based satellite channel Barada TV, which started broadcasting in April 2009 but
‘ramped up operations to cover the mass protests in Syria.’” [30] The Americans
may have wanted to work with MJD due to the fact that they are a moderate
Islamic group which wants to end the Assad regime via democratic reform. This
democratic reform may very well play right into America’s hands if the US does
intervene in Syria, they can back the MJD and argue that they are the same as
Libya’s rebels: people who want to end their oppressive regime and replace it
with a democracy.
The US is using US organizations such as “Freedom House, American Bar
Association, American University, Internews and work done by MEPI with the
Aspen Strategic Initiative Institute, Democracy Council of California, Regents of
the University of New Mexico and the International Republican Institute” [31] to
aid in fomenting regime change in Syria by working with and funding Syrian
“civil society” groups.
There have been many reports of the Syrian regime attacking unarmed
protesters, however, one should be quite skeptical of these reports. The US
media has reported that there are violent Syrian protesters [32], which should
make one question the official narrative that the protesters are peaceful. One
must also include the fact that there are absolutely no outside media sources in
Syria whatsoever. Journalists have contacts whom they can get information
from, but who says that these sources are being objective, much less telling the
truth? All the reports that are being shown in the mainstream media may very
well be half-truths, if not outright fabrications.
[...]
Report thisBy nefesh, November 4, 2011 at 7:12 pm Link to this comment
LOL
Report thisLook at these typical truthcrap comments - these guys
never met a brutal dictator they didn’t love.
By Andrew P Nichols, November 4, 2011 at 6:28 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
Yep Doughboy - I’m suspicious about all this too. Too much interference by outside forces and some woefully onesided reporting.
Report thisBy doughboy, November 4, 2011 at 5:25 am Link to this comment
Homs is considered the center of the movement to overthrow Bashar Assad.
Report thisCausalities on both sides have escalated—a recent slaughter of Alawites in a bus
did not make this report. Perhaps the Arab states could send in soldiers to
monitor—except that Saudi soldiers are in Bahrain suppressing protestors, Egypt’s
are consumed in making sure their will prevails at home, Jordan’s are needed to
keep a close watch on their own cities, Yemen’s are too busy shooting their own
people, etc. Our Arab allies do have one thing in common—the desire to punish
and remove Assad for being its alliance with Iran.