Wednesday July 6, 2011

I've Been Thinking:

Israel's Director of Military Intelligence Major General Aviv Kochavi delivered a remarkable and extremely insightful briefing yesterday.

Kochavi said that Assad of Syria is promising reforms and granting incentives so that Syrians will remain loyal to him. The incentives are working. According to MI (military intelligence) there have been only 20 to 30 Syrian officers who have defected and abandoned their positions.

According to Kochavi Assad needed more than the army to stop the uprising. The incentives he is offering include increased salaries to the military and subsides on staples for everyone.

If this phenomenon continues to take hold then Assad will have successfully quieted the revolt which threatens to topple his reign of power in this Middle East police state.

We will know more by next week.

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