Bashar Assad is not in an iron cage and is not yet under death penalty threat, mainly because he was never a US ally in the age of Obama or any other age. As a free tyrant, Assad has called in the tanks to crush Syrians who simply want a better life.
Ignoring global condemnation, Syria ordered its military to storm through the rebellious city of Hama on Wednesday after three days of shelling. Activists and residents there said that tanks, armored vehicles and snipers had seized the central square, in what appeared to be a decisive step by the embattled president, Bashar al-Assad, to crush opposition to his rule.
The activists and residents of Hama, a historically important center of anti-government resistance in Syria and an incubator of the nearly five-month uprising against Mr. Assad, said the city was under nearly continuous gunfire in the early hours of the day, and they reported many casualties. They said some residents had tried to stop the advancing armored columns with barricades but stood little chance against such superior military might.
For what it’s worth, Syria buys its military hardware mainly from Russia, and has one of the largest militaries in the Arab world.
And Assad is, among other things, a true cynic.
There was some speculation that the Syrian forces deliberately timed the invasion of Hama to coincide with the trial of Mr. Mubarak, which was being held in Cairo and covered live by most satellite news channels, some of which have given heavy coverage to the Syrian popular uprising that started in mid-March.
“It’s obvious that they used the Mubarak trial to distract the public from the attack,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human rights, reached by phone in London. “We might be witnessing another massacre in Hama.”
Not so different than what an O’Reilly, a Shultz, a Bachmann or an Olberman would do if they had their kind of government… of power and control. America has NO shortage of political motivated zealots in any party of the same mindset.
Wow. Way to minimize Assad’s crimes and draw moral equivalence over to innocent people.
I didn’t “minimize” any crimes! Nice try though!
No, you didn’t minimize them. You completely ignored the reality that a mass murderer is using legal means to slaughter unarmed civilians. That’s what people like Assad do when their victims are disarmed. But if you admitted that reality, your libTroll fantasy of all the disarmed sheep hugging and singing Kumbaya would crash. You’d have to wake up and admit that your hallucination of what’s real is a sham, that you are a sham, that everything you wrote at PJM is a sham. So you continue out of vanity and anger, because being wrong consistently is better than admitting you made a mistake, accept it, and start growing. That’s vanity, and it goes before the fall. Wake up, brother.
Hey TrollTroll: We live in a country whose main legal principle is innocent until proven guilty. To equate political rhetoric with the mass murderer in charge of the Syrian government requires a major stretch of the old Depends.
Sounds like you’re getting ready to move to Syria, where you’d be more comfortable.
You and Bryan must have gone to the same online universities for your educations.
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See that little tiny word “if” in there?
Nice try though!
Hey Trollie: I am glad you have torn off your fake intelligence mask again and are showing us the real enraged libTroll you are. Keep it up. You may make laughing stock of the century.
Once again, you prove your smug, high sounding verbiage is nothing more than a put down for everybody else. You’re just sooo much smarter than those racist redneck Tea Partiers, aren’t you? And you’re sooo much more enlightened than those ignorant neanderthal conservatives, aren’t you? You’ve said as much in every post you’ve ever tagged here. We get it, so why don’t you stop repeating yourself every time you grab your keyboard and shuffle back to HuffPo now?
Nope! I’m a really simple man. However, I’ve been on the south end of enough cows to recognize a pile of dung when I see it..or in some cases from reading ones writings. I’ve been in enough ‘political’ wars and seen the price paid in blood and maiming all because of arrogant, Narcissistic self ordained intellectuals. I’ve been around long enough to have witnessed more grassroot bowel movements than you’ve had birthdays. I’ve been around long enough to witness radicalized politcal zealots divide and destroy a once great nation.
One thing for certain! This nation, when you die will not care a hoot about you or care about anything you wrote or how you self ordained yourself as some arrogant, Narcissistic intellectual. In other words, you’re irrelevant just like the other billions of us!
Get over yourself Howie!
It shows.