New Pressure on Syria
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-02-27/new-pressure-syria
In Syria today, more of the same: artillery pummeling parts of homs, the city that has already endured weeks of bombardment. Reports of seven more people killed there today in the shelling. Against that violent backdrop, the Syrian government is set to announce the results of its referendum on a new draft constitution. That vote yesterday was ridiculed by critics of the government inside and outside Syria as a sham and a farce. But the opposition is divided, and a meeting between western and Arab leaders in Tunisia on Friday, the so-called “Friends of Syria”, ended with little prospect of changing the situation on the ground. As the bloodshed in Syria continues hopes of a quick resolution to the conflict are fading.
Guests
David Schenker
Aufzien fellow and director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former top policy aide on the Arab countries of the Levant including Syria at the Pentagon.
Kim Ghattas
State Department correspondent for the BBC.
Marc Lynch
director, Institute for Middle East studies, George Washington University and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, also writes for Foreign Policy Magazine
Radwan Ziadeh
spokesman for the Syrian National Council and executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies
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It's hard to believe that the lie that Iran said they "want to wipe Israel off the map" is still spouted as fact. check these out.
http://antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/450-why-neo-cons-hate-ron-pauls-hones...
As an American Syrian Physician , who’s closely following the situation in Syria, and who has blamed the sluggish underestimate response from the Syrian government from the first beginning , and supported the peaceful , at first, demonstration in Syria, now finding myself withdrawing my support and becoming more sympathetic to the government position in fighting the terrorists in Syria , arms and fighters under the name of jihadists are fleeing to country from everywhere to acclaim it a new Islamists state, people who have just arrived from Homs to The US last week , who I know and trust confirmed that in some places in papa Amro, fighters from the "free" Syrian Army were keeping families (children and women ) hostages in the neighborhood to use them as heroes of their new online videos, both sides are acting horribly , they have to set to the table , this is politics , and the US State Department has to work with Russians for the best of all .
As an American Syrian Physician , who’s closely following the situation in Syria, and who has blamed the sluggish underestimate response from the Syrian government from the first beginning , and supported the peaceful , at first, demonstration in Syria, now finding myself withdrawing my support and becoming more sympathetic to the government position in fighting the terrorists in Syria , arms and fighters under the name of jihadists are fleeing to country from everywhere to acclaim it a new Islamists state, people who have just arrived from Homs to The US last week , who I know and trust confirmed that in some places in papa Amro, fighters from the "free" Syrian Army were keeping families (children and women ) hostages in the neighborhood to use them as heroes of their new online videos, both sides are acting horribly , they have to set to the table , this is politics , and the US State Department has to work with Russians for the best of all .
I feel very frustrated every time I hear news of Syria. I am a Syrian American who visits the country every year. The majority of Syrians support their country and the regime. I've only heard it said once in all these months that the largest cities in Syria support the regime, the majority of the Syrian people support their country and government. The revolutionaries represent a small population of syrians, and with international backing... from countries who have a strategic interest in syria. This is not the road to democracy where the people of that country rule and have a say in what happens. The people of syria do not need the protection of the international community, and definitely don't need interference from people who have a strategic interest. Most of the Syrian people are well educated, and are capable of drawing up and following through on this new constitution. There is great progress, and Syria a step closer to being able to elect a parliament of the people and setting a 6 year term limit for president. Allow the Syrians to Govern their country. I haven't heard anything on the US media regarding the foreign fighters that are being arrested, including fighters from turkey and France, who are not looking out for the best interest of the majority Syrian people. This is no more than a political game. It isn't about protecting the Syrian People at all... It is about destabilizing the region to benefit the US and it's allies.
How any one can be siding with a policy of non intervention to topple this brutal dictator who is torturing and killing even children when the people themselves have finally risen up against this 40yr dictatorship is beyond what anyone who believes in universal human rights can accept.he is mass murdering his own people even as we speak.if alquada,hamas,muslim brotherhood etc,are helping the rebels-that just shows that our narrative about how these movements are pure evil is a false one. people are finally rising up against dictatorship and are being murdered en masse for it.that is all that matters now. we havean obligation to stop this virtual holocaust-i don't care what religion or idealogy these men women and children have.This is outrageous that we watch mass slaughter my a dictator and come up with reasons why we should let the slauter continue.i believe we are complicit with these massacres and this regime at thispoint.We can't say we believe in universal human rights and take the position that out of fear of the unkown future in a pos tassad syrria-we will do nothing when people who rise up against dictatorship finally rise up and the regimes engages in mass murder against them.Where is our humanity.if alquada is with the people-that shows their humanity.maybe otr narrative about groups we have been warring with needs tio be examined-Turning our back on mass murder because the reality on the ground conflicts with our narrative about alquada, hamas etc makes us unethical.I feel like i'm in the twilight zone watching these reports for almost a year now and the narrative of why we allow mass murder by a regime we labeled part of the axis of evil to continue.Now that the people themselves oppose him we don't.
ASSad is the head of a Shia mafia, that is why the islamic/mullah mafia of Iran , which is Shia has been helping him to kill the Sunnis. The Sunnis may be worse than the ASsad mafia or better, nobody knows. What is known is that if the ASSad mafia falls, the next mafia to fall is the islamic/mullah mafia of Iran.