With the Geneva II peace conference looming on January 22, Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander Gen. Salim Idris has announced his is dropping the demand for President Bashar Assad to resign before the talks, saying he’s content with talks toward an eventual transition at the end of the negotiation process.
That may not sound like much on the surface, but it points to what officials say is a significant shift in the secularist rebel perspective, as they consider merging with the Assad government to end their mutual fighting and instead focus on the war against al-Qaeda and the rest of the Islamist rebels.
Gen. Idris addressed the prospect very directly in his comments, saying that the growing FSA fighting with al-Qaeda has left them fighting a war on two different fronts. As foreign Islamists continue to flock to al-Qaeda factions like Jabhat al-Nusra, that’s a problem that’s only going to get worse, as some 5,500 foreign fighters in al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) alone look to dominate the rebel-controlled northwest.
The FSA is mostly military defectors, and re-merging with the military itself might not be particularly difficult, but with their fighters poorly equipped and struggling to cope with a surge in al-Qaeda forces, it isn’t clear how readily they will be able to turn the tide in rebel-held territory, even with the Assad government’s help.
Goons joining goons to kill religious freak goons…..
Religious goons, secular goons, American goons, European goons, eastern European goons, commie goons, capitalist goons, Muslim goons, Christian goons, Hindu goons, Jewish goons, banana Republican goons, non-state-affiliated mafia goons, free-lance goons-for-hire, goons to the left of us, goons to the right of us, goons as far as the eye can see. Step back from the forest of goons so that you can see it for what it is.
Human culture, a tyranny of goons, dating back into human prehistory. If you don't like the culture of goons that has victimized humans since before the awakening, since before the awareness of self in the universe, then step back from the forest, see it for what it is, and think about how to create a goon-free world.
Hint: abolish the state. Goons first create a "state" by conquest. Then they maintain the state by tyrannizing the people. They justify their "leadership" (ie tyranny) by the self-evident need to maintain their conquest from the other goons in a goon-dominated world.
That's exactly what TPP and TAP are intended to do. They essentially nullify any law invonvenient for any corporation. The goal is to abolish all sovereign states in favor of "total freedom" for corporations, or to bend the police functions of those states to the benefit of the corporations.
There will always be sociopaths eager to dominate and exploit the cooperative types. As soon as you "abolish the state" a group of those sociopathic goons will fill the power vacuum. The state thus can not be abolished. The best that can be hoped for is that the people somehow prevent the state from becoming the tool of this group or that, through some sort of truly democratic process.
imperialism has created such a sh*t storm in the middle east. their energy resources have been a huge curse for the population.