Is this the point of the stories that you keep posting? You think that the US is going to intervene on behalf of the rebels?
Is that what I said? Because I didn't. The Syrians rightly believe much of the world has abandoned and failed them.
The writing's on the wall; the rebels are going to lose this fight. Soon Aleppo will fall, the heart will be cut right out of the FSA, and the operations against ISIS in Syria will be a mere mop up. Inshallah.
So you're basically hoping to God that the regime continues to commit its genocide. K then. You can continue to turn a blind eye to the bombing of babies' hospitals by Russia but I will continue to give a voice to the dying and expose the world's hypocrisy.
As for the article, what an idiotic, irresponsible piece. And an ironic title given that his article is misleading (though I hope most of the public has the good sense not to fall for it). He's obviously on the wrong side and history will prove that even though it'll be too late for the victims.
COVERAGE OF the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press. Reporting about carnage in the ancient city of Aleppo is the latest reason why. For three years, violent militants have run Aleppo. Their rule began with a wave of repression. They posted notices warning residents: “Don’t send your children to school. If you do, we will get the backpack and you will get the coffin.” Then they destroyed factories, hoping that unemployed workers would have no recourse other than to become fighters. They trucked looted machinery to Turkey and sold it.
Terrible journalist; either he's lying through his teeth or is willfully ignorant about what he has the audacity to write about. This article (2/15) is from a few days before Stephen's article:
Here is what school is like in Syria's Aleppo: Amid Russian air raids and the advance of pro-Assad forces, some students persist in going to class.
"Majid Marai has around 50 students in his four English language classes at the Sakhar Halaq school in the rebel area of Aleppo. While his school has not been directly attacked, he said his students' behaviour has changed since the war. "Many of them behave…like men. This is nice at first glance, but it's a risk to their childhood," he said.
Some students have left school altogether. "About a year ago there was a bombing campaign against schools and several students left [the school]," he said."
Bombing campaign....obviously by the regime/allies. Where's the concern for Aleppo's schoolchildren now? Or will Stephen be thanking Russia for putting more kids in coffins?
Here's another article showcasing Stephen's lie/idiocy:
"Hamza, a young doctor in an Aleppo hospital," said, "On one day, we had 22 dead civilians. The day before that, it was 20 injured children. A seven-year-old died and an eight-year-old lost his left leg." The Russians attacked in the morning, he says, as the children were on their way to school.
..."But here in the center of Aleppo," the doctor says, "there aren't any Free Syrian Army positions. Only civilians. They are bombing us to soften us up for the regime." Assad's troops, he explains, have already taken many surrounding towns and villages and he is afraid that Aleppo will soon be completely surrounded. One thing he is no longer hoping for is external assistance, saying the international community abandoned Syria long ago. "After all, the US supports the attacks," he says.
The War of Western Failures: Hopes for Syria Fall with Aleppo
Astonishingly brave correspondents in the war zone, including Americans, seek to counteract Washington-based reporting. At great risk to their own safety, these reporters are pushing to find the truth about the Syrian war. Their reporting often illuminates the darkness of groupthink.
Ahh, like this:
or this
Washington-based reporters tell us that one potent force in Syria, al-Nusra, is made up of “rebels” or “moderates,” not that it is the local al-Qaeda franchise.
No, I'm pretty sure everyone knows and mentions that Jabhat an-Nusra is al-Qaeda affiliated
and they are considered rebels. But guess what? No matter how much you dislike them, the local populations in the cities they helped free from regime control were generally thankful to have them and the other rebels instead of Assad. They were furious when the US targeted Jabhat an-Nusra because one of the strongest groups against Assad was being attacked while the regime was left alone and it is the regime that has killed about 95% of the civilians killed so far in Syria.
Saudi Arabia is portrayed as aiding freedom fighters when in fact it is a prime sponsor of ISIS.
Er, okay. What does he have to say about the regime being ISIS' biggest customer? Most of the oil falls into regime hands. And what about the article I posted earlier of Russian engineers working at a plant in ISIS territory? And what about the fact that the regime and Russia leave ISIS alone for the most part and target the very rebels that fight against ISIS?
Turkey has for years been running a “rat line” for foreign fighters wanting to join terror groups in Syria, but because the United States wants to stay on Turkey’s good side, we hear little about it.
Turkey has allowed people and supplies to cross its borders but that does not mean that they were condoning people joining ISIS. Whoever thinks this is blind given how ISIS has attacked Turkey multiple times and given the fact that Turkey has stopped hundreds from crossing over to Syria to join ISIS.
Nor are we often reminded that although we want to support the secular and battle-hardened Kurds, Turkey wants to kill them.
The same secular and battle-hardened Kurds who were/are listed as terrorist organizations by even the US (even though we're basically backing them in Syria?)? The same ones who are listed as terrorist organizations by Turkey?
The same ones who took responsibility for the bombing in Ankara last week that killed 28 people?
The same secular & battle-hardened Kurds who are seizing rebel territory under the cover/support of regime/allies airstrikes and essentially ethnically cleansing these towns of Arabs? The same ones who are renaming captured Syrian cities into Kurdish names? The same ones who threatened Turkey with Russian aggression should Turkey respond to those Kurds' aggression in Syria?
Everything Russia and Iran do in Syria is described as negative and destabilizing, simply because it is they who are doing it — and because that is the official line in Washington.
Um, or maybe because everything they do in Syria is negative and destabilizing.
In 2012 Secretary of State Clinton joined Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel in a successful effort to kill Kofi Annan’s UN peace plan because it would have accommodated Iran and kept Assad in power, at least temporarily.
Do they think anyone on the ground would have accepted these conditions? Even though civilians are being targeted deliberately, just as they have been since the beginning, they will never accept that their sacrifice had been for nothing. They will never accept the man who intentionally targets a religious community in a genocide.
It is also likely to prolong the war and condemn more Syrians to suffering and death.
You know what's distant from reality? Supporting Assad and his allies (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, and other terrorists like the Shi'a militias) and in the same breath feigning concern over the suffering and death of Syrians. Nearly 95% (at about 200k) of all civilian casualties are due to the regime and its allies.
