Syrian officials are expressing growing confidence in their ability to defeat an escalating number of protests calling for democratic reform. A top regime spokesmen today said she believed the “most dangerous moment” had passed, and that the “end of the story” was near.
The comments come as the nation’s military is becoming increasingly proactive in taking to the streets of major cities, with thousands reportedly arrested between the cities of Homs and Baniyas.
The mass arrests and hundreds of deaths in the protests have so far not had a deleterious effect on the anti-regime rallies, and indeed many of the largest marches come in the wake of major violence.
Officials seem quite certain that they can weather this storm, but it does not seem their crackdowns will be able to stop the calls for reform. Even more serious is the long-term resentment the death tolls have caused across the nation, which could make this an issue for the Assad government for years.
Is anyone questioning what kind of reform the opposition is asking for or in this stage demanding.
Let put it into prospective.., Muslims Brotherhood is a Sunni fundamentalists group whom are behind the unrest in Syria and they are supported by US and EU governments.., their primary reform is to split the people into group-ring of Muslims (Sunni and Siiet) which first of all is a direct support of Israel and its social politics in keeping the Palestinian people separated. Their second reform is taking over the government by imposing the new rules in religious dictatorial regime.., third reform is to become a buffer zone against the Shiiet supporters in Middle East.., Saudis and others are supporters of this new trend in religious in Middle East.., by their action they are supporting the Saudi and Arab Emirates Tyrants in the region.., otherwise the social aspects of the Syrian regime is based on free educations for all, free medications for all like in Libya. This is a politics played and orchestrated by the EU and US governments which are not going to have any reformed Medicare or educations for its own people at home.., but they are going to take what people have and making the poorest pay for what they don’t have ., it is happening all over E.., these governments of and by capitalism taking or reducing the peoples healthcare, retirements and educations giving it to Goldman Sachs alike company to steal it from people.