Another week has come and gone, and another deadline has been missed by the Assad regime. Still no deal in place on ending their violence against protesters, or allowing international observers into the country, the Arab League is expected to impose even more sanctions on Syria in response.
The latest deadline came after a flurry of last second reports that the regime was still hammering out a last second deal with the Arab League, and was expected to endorse Arab League monitors. The endorsement never happened.
Of course the Syrian government had already promised to admit the monitors in November, but never actually let them enter the country. At the time they insisted the monitors would prove that violence was nowhere near as high as it was claimed in the international media, but then called off the deal when violence soared in the first few days after the deal.
Syria’s state news agency insists that the killing of civilians, despite being well documented, is a myth fabricated by “terrorists” aimed at forcing the regime out of office. They’ve also accused the Arab League of plotting against the government on behalf of the US and Israel.
More warmongering propaganda from antiwar.com…
This website continues to blame the Assad “regime” for the continuing violence, while completely overlooking the armed insurgents on the other side…
The fairy tale storyline here is the bad guy Assad versus the good guy pro-democracy demonstrators…never mind that it has been a foreign-sponsored insurrection from the beginning…
Antiwar continues to condemn Syria for dragging its feet on the Arab League deal, as if the Arab League is pure as the driven snow…being in fact dominated by US and Israel stooges like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc…
And monitors…?…well how many times have we seen this Trojan Horse before…?…I don’t know where Mr. Ditz was during the Kosovo crisis, but when Milosevic allowed the monitors in, they turned out to be nothing more than Nato spies and agitators who were openly aiding the armed rebellion…and preparing the groundwork for the coming Nato military intervention…
We will see the same thing here if Assad is stupid enough to allow in any kind of “monitors…”
Astute observers will have begun to notice now a shift in the propaganda line…shifting focus from the Assad crackdown on “civilian protesters” to the emerging civil war…
yesterday this website ran a piece from the Wash Post headlined “25 Killed in Syria, Most in Battle Between Defectors, Government…”
This is the cookie cutter propaganda template that was used in Kosovo and Libya…first we have innocent civilians being massacred by the government…then when these poor people have had enough, naturally they start standing up and fighting back, all the more reason to give them our support…
As if on cue, this illustrious website is following this template to a T…the other day we saw a news story by this same writer where he all of a sudden mentions the civil war for the first time, but stresses that this civil war is completely “independent” of the protesters…Riiiiiight…
I would have never believed that this website could fumble an important story so badly…
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Gordon, I think it's a little over the top to say that Antiwar spreads "warmongering propaganda". At worst, it could be ignorance, but I definitely stand by Antiwar.com. On the other hand, I agree with you in that NATO and the US in particular want this to go the way of Libya.
I regard this article and headline as warmongering. As if the Syrian government (why actually a "regime" when democratically elected and so strongly supported by the people?) would have failed to do anything. Meanwhile it can be regarded as clear, that at least some arab league countries are responsible (!) for sending terrorists and weapons to Syria. Those terrorist were urged by muslim brotherhood of Lebanon to shoot as defectors claimed – also at peacefull civilians, children and protestors has been shot as false flag operation. I guess the Jihadists got a similar agreement with USA as in Libya: In Libya it was – we get the oil and you get the sharia, accoding to a well known French defense analyst.
So the Arab league belongs to the side that is responsible for the killings, also when CIA does conduct this, they at least do help.
As attacking war party, of course, they are no acceptable as "peace" monitors. One who knows how UN and OSCE did cheat in Yugoslavia, can immagine what it would mean to call such monitors: Protecting terrorists from being catched, using the staged reports of the monitors to created and "justify" a war against the victim of this dirty campaign of media lies and terrorism.
Some Links that proof what I did write here:
Peaceful unarmed civilians? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=pbdZR-GzWZ4
Al qaida-Armee proud of 1000s of killings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-gGJW4YHRw
Attention ! Graphic, Al Qaeda brutality !-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES_Rs5ljRK4
beheading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=952o1DJhcbQ
Huge Pro-Assad-Demonstrations in all cities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlgDXP411w
the people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1CRpGlaPsU
Syria war planned 1991 in US: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-TZxI8m8ss
Revolution makers http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=lpXbA6yZY-8
Weapon delivery for peace/democracy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oLXJDyGHLE
Recent report about Syria from investigative reporter and analyst Webster Tarpley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quCxHMMo0I0 (engl.at 0:39)
Who are the decent people Assad or Mc Cain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUIV_d7lz7o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2_lKfwrv1Y
Mc Cain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWBL57JBW6c
Jason Ditz wrote that the killing of civilians would be well documented. BUT WHERE ? Death civilians alone does not proof who did it. Does it proof that terrorists did shoot on them or the Syrian Army?
Where should be the motive to kill their own people for the Syrian Army or the Syrian government? A huge majority of Libyan people does support Assad and people even are protesting for more Army actions. The Syrian government has issued very restricted use of weapons. E.g. even when attacked it is not allowed to shoot at Terrorists, when civilians could be harmed.
What’s the difference between Jason Ditz and John McCain?
Arab League deadline? Oh…you mean Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Those paragons of human rights protection and tolerance for political opposition parties (which are of course all outlawed).
Well done, Jason. You are a top analyst of international affairs. Somewhere there is a NATO uniform with your name on it.