Government on offensive outside Syria's capital

[Adsos Letter]

Source: AP
By SARAH EL DEEB
Associated Press

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces stepped up their attack against rebel strongholds north of the capital Damascus on Saturday, while opposition fighters declared their own offensive in the country's largest city Aleppo.

Both sides intensified operations as an 11-nation group that includes the U.S., dubbed the Friends of Syria, began meeting in Qatar to discuss how to coordinate military and other aid to the rebels seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on an extensive network of activists in Syria, said the shelling of the district of Qaboun has killed three children, including two from the same family, since Friday.

Activists reported heavy shelling on many fronts on districts north of Damascus, apparently an attempt to cut links between rebel-held districts that have served as launching pads for operations against the capital.

http://news.yahoo.com/government-offensive-outside-syrias-capital-113710792.html

[jonkyo]

1. syria and the west: hangover of colonialism

I do believe that the Western media on Syrian conflict is supportive of US Military intents to get involved in this war.

Democracy is a word that as of recent decades, is spewed forth from the mouths of politicians, just before shelling and bombing of innocent people occurs.

This is the pollution that is emitted from Western media, and clouds the minds of the already dumb spoon fed adult toddlers who sit with cable TV.

We do not have a correct assessment of the situation, here in the west.

And this excerpt from a blog explains my understanding :

There is a very horrible account in the New York Times of (www.nytimes.com/2013/.../grisly-killings-in-syrian-towns-dim-hopes-for-p), what the war in Syria has done to the fabric of diversity.

Sectarian divides have become manifest in mass killings, and more.

That is the results of Western Colonial Rule last century.

The West did this to the entire Middle East!

The dictators were the glue that kept things in order, however a bit imbalanced due to sectarian favoritism.

Read what Desmond Tutu stated about this, last year, “The Iraq war “has destabilized and polarized the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history,” wrote Archbishop Tutu.” ( The Associated Press, September 2, 2012). The Guardian of the UK have his statement and address in full on line.

If you have a difficult time understanding this, you could do a bit of historical reading into the bloodshed in The Congo, a place that has been endemic with mass murder and killing since the Belgians left. The Belgians cut up and divided land, property, and mixed up the well formed historically rooted-ness of places and the people living there. Because of this colonial recontouring of land and people, the ethnic divides have clashed for decades, with the death toll directly related to what Belgian did, in the hundred thousands.

(See: Congo Free State, 1885-1908 Yale University: http://www.yale.edu/gsp/colonial/belgian_congo/