Wednesday May 2, 2012

I've Been Thinking:

The head UN international observer in Syria made a very important observation yesterday.

He said that both sides are violating the ceasefire.

Yes, Assad's men are violating the ceasefire - but so, too, are the rebels.

This conflict is more complicated than it appears. Most of the rebels are from al Qaeda and most of the recent attacks have been perpetrated by them.

The observers will increase their number over the next few weeks from 28 to 300. But this will not bring a ceasefire. The job of the observers is to observe.

Most of the real rebels have gone back to school, fled, been killed or arrested.

The Syrian army has successfully cracked down and destroyed almost all local rebel movements. Now we are witnessing a new style of attack - car bombs and suicide bombs and attacks at large populated hangouts.

These are all al Qaeda tactics.

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