Jets Pound Aleppo: It All Smacks of Desperation
Syrian fighter jets have bombed Aleppo, according to the BBC’s Ian Pannell.
Separately, ITV News reporter Bill Neely has caught on camerawarplanes bombing Douma, in Damascus.
This is possibly the first time jets have been used in this conflict (although this is disputed, with some saying they were used in Rastan).
Using jets stinks of desperation, and shows just how hard the regime is having to fight to keep hold of Syria’s two biggest cities, Aleppo and Damascus.
It is a desperate move, because it is so flagrant. When the army sends in plain-clothed thugs to massacre women and children in their own homes, it can blame the opposition. When regular soldiers kill civilians in cold blood, it can accuse rebels of donning army uniforms. But when Syrian jets are in the skies, it has no-one to blame but itself. I wonder how Russia Today will report this.
It is also desperate, because it risks losing pilots and planes. It’s hard for a soldier on the battlefield to go AWOL. It’s a different story when you are at the controls of a plane that can fly at 1,000MPH.
The Syrian regime is bringing out the big guns. For Bashar, it really has got that bad.
It All Smacks of Desperation.- No it is the same as it has ever been.
“Their own people’ The foundation text does not allow for the existence of differing views so although you may be in the same State boundary you are still not ‘one’ people.
Both sides of this conflict have at their heart and ethics intolerance of Other ‘Deaf dumb and blind’ destined justifiably for ‘grievous harm’.
Under such a paradigm there is no such thing as ‘Their own people’ there never has been.
Why so shocked. Each of these sides since the seventh century have been at each others throats claiming the moral high ground based on an immoral text which defines Other as less. Pausing only because they are physically/politically exhausted only to resume once again when the time is ripe for renewed genocide.
Once the Sunnis are in power the non-Sunnis are for it and vise-versa justified by exactly the same text – insanity passes for normality.
Until the foundation text has vilification and justification of genocide against Other removed both sides as they are doing at this very moment, and as they have since the seventh century continue to kill men women and children in the cause of Allah the most forgiving and gracious.