Assad is a brutal thug who imposed neoliberal economic policies on Syria during the 2000s, and who is also a mass murderer, whose Air Force has dropped thousands of barrel bombs (completely inaccurate terror weapons) on protesting civilians in Aleppo, Damascus and other cities. Assad's thugs also used sarin-based chemical weapons on East Ghouta last year, murdering 1,000 civilians. His Alawite minority regime is waging a criminal sectarian war against Syria's Sunni majority, a war the Alawites are slowly but surely losing.
The thugs of the ISIS (the Daesh) are a medieval horror, of course - essentially a Sunni theo-fascist movement, the Sunni remix of Assad's nightmarish rule. But the rebels are not all ISIS - parts of the FSA in Deraa and Idlib are secular and sane, and the Kurds in northeast Syria are secular.
-- DRR
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
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> <http://www.blackagendareport.com/images/2014-08/iraq_isis_rebels.jpg>
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> "If Obama was serious about wanting to crush ISIS, the best and most
> logical
> ally would be Syrian President Assad, whose army has so far prevailed
> against every flavor of jihadist the U.S. has been able to throw at it."
> But
> the U.S. remains intent on overthrowing Assad, and will conjure up a
> pretext
> to attack Syria under cover of fighting ISIS.
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> Read this article on Black Agenda Report...
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> http://events.blackagendareport.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.ph
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