29-Mar-15 World View -- Syria's al-Assad regime suffers major military setback in Idlib / Arab League positions harden

[John]

29-Mar-15 World View -- Syria's al-Assad regime suffers major military setback in Idlib

Arab League positions harden against Houthis and Iran

** 29-Mar-15 World View -- Syria's al-Assad regime suffers major military setback in Idlib
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e150329



Contents:
Syria's al-Assad regime suffers major military setback in Idlib
Arab League positions harden against Houthis and Iran


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Idlib,
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Nusra Front, Busra Sham, Raqqa,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Arab League, Yemen, Houthis, Saudi Arabia, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi,
Egypt, Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi,
Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud

[Trevor]

One thing that does occur to me is that the Clash of Civilizations world war may not happen everywhere at once. For the U.S., the war started in 1941, but the war between China and Japan started in 1937, arguably in 1931. It's looking like the Middle East will be the first region, since while the situations in Russia and China are growing heated, it hasn't progressed nearly as much.

Iran and Russia are not going to let Assad fall from power. 18 months ago, he looked to be on the brink of defeat, but they redoubled their efforts to supply him. If it's within their capabilities to keep him there, they'll do it, so saying he's about to lose power may be premature.

Even some commentators are beginning to call Syria a "Geopolitical Chernobyl". http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wor ... m-in-iraq/

[Anonymous1]

"until this gang [the Houthis] announces its surrender, exits all occupied territories in the provinces, leaves state institutions and military camps."

I always amazes me those fighting the Houthis or ISIS or Al Qaeda or FARC and also Hamas for that matter, that once defeated, these hoodlums will go back to their lives as teachers, students, doctors, philosophers and roofers. Its not like they have anywhere to go after defeat. They kinda wrote off their country of origin and burned their passport which was a stupid move in itself since they could have used it to terrorize their home country later. Its victory or death! That is a great motivator.

Hamas took over a territory that had a weak governing body and security force. They say they are legitimate because they were 'voted' into power, but if voted out, they'd stay in power. Charles Taylor/Liberia, Robert Gabriel Mugabe/Zimbabwe, Gaddafi/Libya, Idi Amin/Uganda amongst and widely known PLO dupe Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa with dozen of others were all red-blooded terrorists that were successful in their overthrow and sadly gained legitimacy in their political stature.

Some leaders like Salva Kiir Mayardit of the SPLA was able to get southern Sudan to break away. Otherwise him and his group would be hunted down until assuming room temperature. My point with this and with all of this is the losing side that has no fallback country will need to be imprisoned or slaughtered. They will not go quietly into that good night. The eventual victors fighting the losers need to figure out how to quietly muffle the resistance without media focus so they themselves are not labeled as being blood thirsty, but it needs to happen.

Looking back through history, all leaders/peoples who took power by force or even just lead the initial invasion are glorified starting with Chris Columbus & George Washington with his US revolutionaries. Two great related quotes: "History is always written by the winners" & "What is history, but a fable agreed upon" Japan is still getting into hot water with putting the 'comfort women' in positive light. They lost the war so revising that will never go over well.