ISIS gains are mounting in the Aleppo Province of Syria, with reports of heavy fighting overnight in which they routed the Free Syrian Army (FSA), seizing several villages and approaching the strategically important town of Marea, which is now a key base for FSA forces.
The capture is doubly inconvenient for the US and Turkey, as they have not only been backing the FSA in this region, but this area was a key part of the 60 mile “safe zone” they were intending to carve out of northern Syria, which is supposed to be “ISIS-free.”
It’s less ISIS-free than ever, and it’s largely the fault of the US and Turkey, as this territory was under the control of al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front earlier this month, but abandoned by them at the behest of Turkey, because it was to be a part of this “safe zone.”
The FSA moved into the area, with support from some of al-Qaeda’s Islamist bloc in the region, as a more palatable rebel faction to hold the region from the US perspective. That the FSA has failed repeatedly when confronted by other factions, however, meant they handed this region to a group who would never be able to defend it.
If the US and Turkey hadn’t started hyping this “safe zone,” the territory would never have been ceded by al-Qaeda, and they’ve been more effective at fighting ISIS, meaning the ISIS takeover would’ve been a much more difficult proposition.
We said it last time around, the Turkish Erdogan regime is hardly to be trusted in anything, the area has been bombed by USG and by Turkish to clear the way for ISIS to expend their territory which is a extension of Wahhabis and all other Als out there, this is their safe zone where Turkish Erdogan regime and NATO will pump what ISIS needs, rest is just talks by either USG or NATO or Saudis or Israelis.
The proof of the fact is the reasons for Turkish Erdogan regime killing Kurdish fighters on the ground where they are fighting these barbarians, the other is the fact that USG, NATO, Saudis-Wahhabis effectively looking to destroy more of Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and if they could Iran, countries that started the unification process within their regional , such unification is not good for either Saudis or the English or the German or the Swedish king or NATO in general, which is the reason for these government supporting the current situation in Middle East and supported the Yugoslavia war.
February 20, 2015 America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776
The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth
In 2011, Danios wrote: Below, I have reproduced a year-by-year timeline of America’s wars, which reveals something quite interesting: since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage any wars.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/america-wa…
Turkey helping ISIS is just another day at the office.
I suggest a moment of silence for the latest victims of Uncle Sam's barbaric policies, especially the 70 Syrians who died a horrible death in the back of a small truck in Austria.
Why does Antiwar.com use the SOHR, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a known MI6 propaganda operation, as a source?
Is this site really antiwar, or just a front like the SOHR?
Antiwar.com uses every source it can find, and trusts its readers to assign reliability to sources on their own.
As far as the "is Antiwar.com a front" stuff is concerned, you don't get three strikes on that. You get one warning to knock it off.
Antiwar.com should not use propaganda sources without explaining to it's readers that it
is a known propaganda source. As I said below, one of the most important antiwar actions is fighting the propaganda. Absolutely.
You'd prefer a State Dept press release?
Yes, it is compromised and questionable. Then there are all of the alternatives.
As judges will so often say, "take it for what it's worth."
Maybe they should at least warn people what they're reading. Most people don't know
about the SOHR which was outed in 2012 and the MSM continues to rely heavily on it. There's another one that popped up also, the Syrian something for Human Rights, can't remember. Again, one guy running it and obviously being funded by someone.
One of the most important fronts against war, i.e., being antiwar, is fighting the propaganda.
Double post, sorry.
Antiwar.com has mentioned, numerous times, that SOHR is a "rebel mouthpiece," not a neutral reporting source. This time, we didn't cite SOHR, we cited Business Insider and Reuters. THEY cited SOHR.
Maybe instead of assuming that "most people" are stupid, you should assume that "most people," like you, are capable of thinking for themselves and forming their own opinions as to the reliability of sources.
All right., my bad. I apologize.
I haven't been here in a while.
No problem.
Personally over at my own newsletter site, whenever I link a story that cites SOHR as its main source, I throw in a note to the effect of "take with a grain of salt, as this outfit is a London-based propaganda mill, not an on the ground, allegedly neutral reporting organization." But I link such a story maybe once a week, while Antiwar.com is constantly producing updates — and it's hard to FIND "news" out of Syria that doesn't use SOHR frequently.
This is funny. Not "funny ha-ha" as we said in the old fashioned way, but funny as in face-slapping "oh my gawd not again you morons."