Syrian Rebels Escalate, Shell Baath HQ

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The State cannot "crush" uprisings of this kind. When people become so dissatisfied with their lives and their situation, and they identify the State as the significant factor in that dissatisfaction, that they take to the streets in masse, State brutality only empowers the uprising.  It confirms the people's sense that the State is out of touch with them, out of touch with their situation, and not only doesn't care when confronted but is actively hostile ... against them. This has been going on in Syria for weeks and thousands have died and each and every death has been a citizen with a family, friends, associates ... all now farther along the road toward the kind of radicalization that drove that now-State-murdered citizen into the streets to begin with, building the numbers ... and the anger. The people rise from disatisfaction and anger, to rage.  The situation disintegrates into more and more fractious demonstrations and people who were PART of the State's repressive mechanism begin to become disillusioned and alarmed and THEY begin to join what then escalates from the state of "uprising" to be an "insurgency."  That's what happened that resulted in the "Free Syrian Army."  Thousands of defectors ... leaving the State's repression mechanism.  For decades we, the United States, have smiled into the faces of monsters and posed with them for pictures and supported their regimes with money and arms, all in the service of "stability in the Middle East."  It was "in our interest" for the region to remain "stable" even if the "stability" was under some of the most savagely repressive and brutally tyrannical despots on Earth.  We even exploited their savagery to "interrogate" certain "detainees" while we kept our hands "clean." It becomes ever more clear that that era of "stability" is over.  In Tunisia, in Egypt, in Lybia, and in Syria, Bahrain ... Yemen ... across the Middle East and north Africa ... for whatever their reasons ... the people are in the streets, and wherever the State has tried violent suppression, escalation has been the result.  The Egyptians are now in the streets again pressing their demands harder and farther and in Syria what started as peaceful protest in rural communities has escalated to armed resistance at the headquarters of the ruling party. It is hard to see where it will lead.  There are so many contentious "interests" in that region that outcomes are in doubt.  The people there, however, have already faced open attack by their government.  They have already been the targets of snipers from the rooftops and troops on the ground ... and they have persisted ... in fact they have inCREASED ... Whatever course politics and government may take in the region, the people there, it seems to me, are VERY unlikely to EVER put up with the kinds of rulers they have had for all these decades.  The Egyptians have shown us that, once the grip is broken, if true reform lags, they will reTURN to the streets to press their demands.  That should get the attention of any potential "ruler." It should also serve as a poke in the ribs to OUR "authorities," who should be watching VERY carefully to see what State violence to try and suppress uprisings ACTUALLY accomplishes.

"We have to prevent militants from doing what they are doing now, killing civilians doing massacres." Funny Assad. The rebels probably say the exact same thing about you and your regime's army.

Free Syrian Army = Lebanese, Jordanian, Turkish insurgents equipped with heavy weapons and backed by the west. "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad promised to continue his crackdown, saying, "We have to prevent militants from doing what they are doing now, killing civilians doing massacres, in different places in Syria."" That is exactly what these insurgents have been doing all the while the west and it's traitor arab puppets have been throwing the blame on Bashar al-Assad. Bashar al-Assad will crush these rats and US/NATO won't be able to do a damn thing unless they want to go to war with Russia, who has just deployed it's battleships to Syrian waters to prevent any intervention.