Syrian ceasefire

Assad indigestion

A peace plan comes into wobbly effect

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Reluctant Polluter

It becomes clear when reading other reports from Syria that there is no civil war or just a governmental wholesale assault on the population over there.
What's happening, is the armed conflict between two sides: rebels, who represent themselves, not "Syrian people" (they aspire to rule them exactly the way Assad does), and the currently ruling Assad regime. There is no doubt that sectarian and tribal rivalries are behind the conflict which has nothing to do with any thrust for democracy.
Thus both sides kill civilians, and right now are violating the so called cease fire, though the aspiring rulers are still weaker, can't kill of the populace as effective as Assad's forces can, and because of this are seen as more "humane".
Libya.2, in other words.


Now there is a wobbly ceasefire, the UN should come up with a quick and dirty plan to balkanise Syria into Sunni controlled area, Alawite controlled area, Christian majority area, Kurd majority area etc. to avert repeats of future Bosnian bloodshed as the Salafist theocrats are being prepared to take over the rein from the Assad Titoists.


All that sent Kofi Annan to Syria should be blamed. He was a suspect of Oil-Food corruption. Nobody will not believe him in middle east. Those counties who sent him to Syria should be blamed.
U.N. and security committee member countries plus Germany. I wondered why Germany was addes as the member.

Maximiliano Herrera

No,man. Don't waste your time. Don't let yourself been added to the list of people been fooled by Assad.
There is no ceasefire at all, in fact, the "joke" has lasted 3-4 hours at most and right now Assad genocidal regime is massacring dozens of people as always. Spare your time,man. We know there will not be any solution in this way. There will be no peace, no democracy as long as this monster regime is not smashed into pieces. There is no possible transition, only Assad joking and playing with you, than laughing in his conversations and e-mails, about how fool you are. Do you like to be fooled by this guy ? I don't.So, let's speak clear: that civil war and that horrible massacre is going on and that regime must disappear. There are no other ways.


Assad is fighting a losing battle. Unless his military is able to crush the armed oppositions within days, he will soon find out all the possible future scenarios look very much dim to him. If the battle continues and prolongs, NATO and other Arabia countries will have time to militarily intervene. Perhaps Turkey's armed forces are already ready. Once this intervention begins, Assad will be bound to lose. If the battle is halted, as it is right now, the oppositions will begin to rally fervently to protest against Assad, until the limit when Assad can't help but shooting guns again...

This is the battle for which both sides want a decisive result!


UN's Ban has reluctantly admitted that some peace and stability were restored to the restive areas by clearing out the so-called freed Salafist elements. Now the Wahhabi bros have now made another desperate call to the Zionist bros in Washington to decisively "Cut the Head of the snake ... and we will lubricate your indigestion with Oil."

Connect The Dots

In an Arab Culture based for over a thousand years on eye-for-an-eye justice, I predict this cease fire will not hold.

Over 10,000 mostly civilian deaths at the hands of the government will not be soon forgotten.

Peace will come in a process similar to neighbors like Beirut, Lebanon, Iraq, Kurdistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Gaza Strip, and Palestine-- which is brutal civil war, sectarian strife, tribal revenge attacks, family feuds and terror.

A simple UN Peace Treaty does not work with this culture. It is a pie in the sky dream.

Bosnia had about 50 UN cease fire declarations over 5 years. None held. It was a charade. Snipers kept snipping and civilians kept dying while fetching water buckets and firewood. Concentration camps, systematic rape, and mass genocide-- all a stone's throw from Italy.

Syrian forces and rebels are actively rearming during the lull. And it will proceed with renewed vigor and brutality even worse than before.

Target Syrian leadership if you want to end this conflict and bloodbath. It was the same way in the Balkans. The UN thought the could use a soft approach and negotiations. The conflict lasted half a decade and over 100k deaths.

The silence of the guns is not peace, but the calm before the storm.

Kurds, Turks, Turkmen's and Bosnians are not Arab. Blaming this on "Arab Culture" is sort of naive in my mind. Speaking of eye for an eye, isn't the supposed reason for our military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan a response to 9/11? If "Arab culture" teaches eye for an eye, then our cultre teaches an eye for a head.

Aly-Khan Satchu

It is clear that President Assad responded with overwhelming Force to what was a peaceful [initially] Rebellion. He had evidently seen The Tahrir Square Moment and vowed to prevent the Tipping Point. However, it also clear that Saudi Arabia and Qatar saw an Opening with which to stab the Alawite Regime in the Heart and better still grab Khamenei's Beard via slicing Bashar. It really is a Big Joke [except apparently n the Western Press] that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and The Emir of Qatar are talking Democracy and Human Rights. They have funded and weaponised the Opposition. They are seeing the Conflict through a narrow Sectarian prism. That is as plain as day.
I return to the FallOut after the Expulsion of the Shah of Iran from his Peacock Throne and whose consequences we are still wrestling with. We are placing a very poor bet, by backing Narrow Dispensations who just dont get it and who have successfully dragged us up a Cul De Sac.
The Reality is never black and white. Libya is a Debacle. At this Rate, so will the rest of the Maghreb and Middle East.
Aly-Khan Satchu



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