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This was written before I saw the post above.
The armed fighting seems to be mainly in Daraa and Baba Amr. What does this imply for a popular revolt that it's not widespread?
Does it matter to the people which group of villains are in charge? What if the cost of getting the newer, shinier version is widespread death and mayhem (as is the pattern)?
Do you have credible reports of this? Narwani throws doubt on the casualty figure narrative and shows instances when the claimed defectors weren't. I also ask again where are the credible reports of the altruism of the rebels and of the Syrian government wilfully targeting civilians in its response to the armed rebels?
Even Stratfor [1], said "most of the opposition's more serious claims have turned out to be grossly exaggerated or simply untrue, thereby revealing more about the opposition's weaknesses than the level of instability inside the Syrian regime."
-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sharmine-narwani/stratfor-challenges-narra_b_1158710.html
The Arab League monitors reported that the armed opposition had committed violence against civilians. Is that a credible source?
So the FSA aren't terrorists, even when they've killed civilians with car bombs? US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said the FSA has been infiltrated by Al Qaeda. The same Al Qaeda assets who were prominent in the genuine people's revolution [TM] in Libya?
After their great success in hoodwinking the public over Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, what are the odds that the Western media are telling anything remotely like the truth about Syria? Of course the Syrian government has its own propaganda. However, when this matches with the same pattern of covert assistance and backing of out of country activists as in Libya, I'm inclined to believe it. That doesn't mean that I accept everything from RT or Press TV.
Was Marie Colvin killed in "a rocket attack", by an "an artillery shell", or "a mortar strike"? If the media don't even know how she was killed, are they likely to know who killed her?
1 - "a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency."
-- http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html