Syrian government forces, backed by Hezbollah fighters, have finally taken control over the strategically important border town of Qusayr, effectively ending weeks of fighting over the area.
Both sides have thrown a lot of forces into the battle for the town, owing to its location along an important highway connecting Damascus with the northern portion of the country.
Rebels confirmed the town had been lost but were light on details. Syrian state media claimed a number of rebel fighters had been forced to surrender and captured when the town finally fell.
While this certainly gives the government some sense of momentum, analysts are quick to note that there is still a lot of war to fight. Hezbollah is sending its forces to Aleppo, a much bigger city and a much bigger challenge, where a stalemate has lingered for almost a year.
Hear Hear!
Ditz finally have to acknowledge that there is such a thing as a "Syrian state media" that might have a better or more balanced information of events,without any links of course not to give us any ideas, but then resorts to his usual "trustworthy" sources of information in the "Assad will fall any day now Bagdad-Bob-kind-of, yes you are right, the USA corporate and very much state media.
How about some good old fashioned journalism Ditz? The way it should be done.Parroting governmental and corporate hand-outs is sooo 90`s. Go to Syria and see for yourself! Speak to those over 70% supporting the government and Dr.Al Assad (and those figures according to non less than NATO, another "reliable" and not very Syrian friendly source, mind you!) Then a quick move over to the 10% head chopping sharia "freedom fighters" McCain recently sneaked in for a minute or two, to see…
You're entirely right. Antiwar as a whole has been steadily moving away from its onetime role as a media outlet for anti-imperialism, and towards a cross between libertarian propaganda and looking, basically, towards its funding. The very fact that Thomas L Knapp rushes around bullying dissenters is proof enough of the fact that this site has lost any claims to even-handedness it might have had (Yoohoo Knapp! Are you reading this, Knapp? Come over and tell me how it's all my imagination, Knapp. I dare you, you coward.). Antiwar's been losing readers, not just contributors – and since there are many other sources with equal or better coverage of anti-imperialism available online, there's no particular reason to keep backing it.
These "analysts" (many of whom predicted that Assad would be gone……a year ago) are shilling for the US government. I haven't see a single mainstream establishment publication in the US do anything but spin away the butt kicking that was given to their Al Qaeda flunkies by the SAA & Hezbollah.
According to the news and a picture by RT.., a jeep belonging to the Israeli army is seized by the Syrian army.., http://rt.com/news/qusair-strategic-syria-rebels-…
this shows that Israel is been helping these Saudis mercenaries with logistic if nothing els.., I am waiting to see what the Jordanian king is been supporting these mercenaries sent by the Saudis – wahabbis and other terrorists organizations.., beside what we know about CIAs training camp in Jordan.
"According to the news and a picture by RT.., a jeep belonging to the Israeli army is seized by the Syrian army"
Um, no. According to the news and a picture by RT, a jeep THE REGIME SAYS is Israeli, a jeep THE REGIME SAYS was being used by the rebels, a jeep THE REGIME SAYS it seized.
Maybe all three of those things are true. Or maybe only two, one or none of them are.
What do you mean by the term "regime", Knapp? Is that the *legitimate government of Syria*? What do you mean, Knapp, you contemptible little bully?
I mean the same thing by "the regime" with reference to Syria as I do when I refer to the Obama regime here in the US (and that's almost always the terminology I use) — the ruling state bureaucracy.
There's no such thing as a "legitimate government."
Oh, is that so? Then you should be on the side of the terrorists, openly. In fact, you shouldn't be part of this site at all, since it still claims to be an anti-imperialist site, and imperialism has focussed on overthrowing national governments it doesn't like.
I'm not on the side of EITHER set of terrorists (the regime's terrorists or the would-be regime's terrorists).
Antiwar.com is an anti-imperialist site. It opposes outside intervention in Syria. That doesn't mean that its personnel have to pretend that either side of the fight in Syria is "legitimate."
So, you have "moral equivalence" between cannibal headhunters and the "regime's terrorists"?
I think you've just exposed what you are. But then your campaign to bully dissenters on this site is too well-known to leave any doubts about you anyway.
I always wondered what Assad's counterpart to hasbara would look like. Thanks for the demonstration.