Syrian troops have reportedly retaken the rebel-held town of Saraqeb, a strategically valuable town along the highway connecting the capital city of Damascus and Syria’s largest city, Aleppo.
The town is the latest in a string of losses for rebel fighters, who have seen considerable gains evaporate since the beginning of the month, with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) blaming a persistent ammunition shortage.
The latest fighting comes as UN special envoy to Syria Kofi Annan tries to arrange peace talks between the rebels and the regime. The Assad government agreed to such talks yesterday, but so far don’t appear to have any sort of partner.
The Syrian National Council (SNC), the putative leader of the rebel movement, has claimed today that “all but one” rebel faction has agreed to unite under their banner. The SNC doesn’t seem likely to do anything even if this is true. Some of their leaders have rejected the idea of talks on general principle, while others have simply expressed “skepticism” at the talks.
What i want to know is what is this Syrian National Council, who are they and what is it that they are challenging and what is it that they want to reform or change, what is their background and what is their social politics agendas, are they socialist, communist, getting order from Uncle Sam and or from Wall Street so that they are capitalist, are they from a religious sect or tribe and if so what, why they are supported by Saudis – UAE and some EU countries and US, what is it that US and EU are after if Assad regime is removed what they would get out of all this. Beside all that and any answer from SNC the entire matter seams to be smelly like no other smell, a work of terrorists, mercenaries, those whom are after power not knowing what they are fighting for or want, those who just want to change a regime to an anarchism and destruction regime like in Libya, and above all what is their banner stands for and what is represents for Syrian people.
So the "rebels" are falling on the ropes and Annan is there to save them? The old Assad, brutal killer that he was, wiped out an entire town about thirty years ago that had the temerity to make a ruckus. And for all that time nobody dared do the same until recently. Coincidence? Not hardly. The miserable thing is that innocents with no desire to get involved are being sacrificed.
Yes. It seems it's reached a point where if the "international community" stays out of it, it'll be over real soon – which is why McCain is howling about arming the rebels.
And yet notice how Johnny-on-the-spot doesn't say a word about what's going on in Bahrain, eh? His is a most selective indignation.