I wouldn't believe that assessment at all unless Aleppo actually falls, which looks extremely unlikely. The FSA rats simply don't have the firepower to conquer Aleppo, wage war in Damascus, subdue the capital, and fight everywhere else eventually having to move through the mountains around Latakia and the coast. As long as Assad plays his cards right, it's an absolute impossibility.
Il Duce, I can't speak for anyone else in this discussion, but I am no "Ba'athist apologist", whatever this is implying, because the Syrian Ba'ath Party needs no apologies. It's the best distillation of political thought to yet come to power in that country, and Assad is not a figure who needs to be "apologized" for either. He is a
hero for defending his nation against terrorist scum who shout "Allahu Akhbar" while plotting to pull a Muslim Brotherhood and hand their country over to the Western-Jewish IMF in the event of victory. Muslims? No. Hypocrites, traitors, scoundrels, animals, filth.
One should think less when burrowing a slug into the undeveloped brain of a rat or rat sympathizer than when grinding a cockroach into a fine powder beneath one's bootheel. Contrary to popular belief, cockroaches are relatively clean. These rats are as dirty as they come, and the 23 million strong Syrian nation won't be properly cleansed until the last of their seed are disemboweled and hanging from a cross upside down to rot in the centre of Damascus. Upside down, like St. Peter. It will be easier for the lovely women of Syria to pass by and burn their mouth raw with excrement.
The TET offensive was great military victory for the US, but it was one of the final nails in the coffin for continued US involvement in the country.
Incorrect analogy. It is true that we won in Tet; won resoundingly. At the time, scores of middle-aged hippies and hopheads decided to go on the rampage and speak out of ignorance, thus sabotaging our effort, while they hadn't a clue what was going on. In the case of Nam, the first victory for NVA propaganda was the media victory, and all else followed. It was a distant war for the public and one in which we were losing too much.
Not at all the case here. This war is being fought
in Syria before the eyes of the population and in the courtyards across from their family's homes. They have
everything to lose and Assad has no such restraint of public war-weariness. Are they going to impeach him? This war won't be decided by such propaganda, but hard facts on the ground.
For the American public, even for Johnson and Nixon, it was "okay" to walk away from Vietnam in the end. Assad is fighting for both his life and the sovereignty and independence of his country in the face of a terrible enemy. They would have to defeat him militarily, because the Syrian government
won't, can't walk away, even if the rats were at the gates of the government quarter.
"I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work" - President Vladimir Putin
"Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin." - Muammar Qaddafi