This offense looks to have the same down side as did the Tet Offensive in its day, the destruction by regular forces of rebels who try too soon to hold ground in a failed expectation of a rising in their support. The difference is that Tet contradicted the American lies of earlier destruction of the rebels. Assad did not tell those lies, and so the destruction of the rebels does not buy them the humiliation of Assad as it did LBJ.
This was an arrogant, foolish move that will set back the rebels.
Unless it is seen cynically as a Western move to destroy Syria in an ever deepening civil war, in order to cripple it and remove its help from Iran. In that, it succeeded. But then, it would be aimed at harming the Syrian people, not helping them as Hillary claims.
Syria did not "lie about this." It refused to sign the chemical warfare Treaty, exactly as its neighbor with which it is at war Israel refused to sign the same Treaty, and it maintained the same "won't say" attitude as Israeli official policy. That changed when there were open threats from Israel to attack that deterrent.
Thanks for this. It is really well done, and much needed.
If our press were really what it always tells us it is, then this would be the mainstream take on these events.
This offense looks to have the same down side as did the Tet Offensive in its day, the destruction by regular forces of rebels who try too soon to hold ground in a failed expectation of a rising in their support. The difference is that Tet contradicted the American lies of earlier destruction of the rebels. Assad did not tell those lies, and so the destruction of the rebels does not buy them the humiliation of Assad as it did LBJ.
This was an arrogant, foolish move that will set back the rebels.
Unless it is seen cynically as a Western move to destroy Syria in an ever deepening civil war, in order to cripple it and remove its help from Iran. In that, it succeeded. But then, it would be aimed at harming the Syrian people, not helping them as Hillary claims.
Syria did not "lie about this." It refused to sign the chemical warfare Treaty, exactly as its neighbor with which it is at war Israel refused to sign the same Treaty, and it maintained the same "won't say" attitude as Israeli official policy. That changed when there were open threats from Israel to attack that deterrent.