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I'm up 37 to 9 on The Independent

By Michael Collins, on August 7th, 2012

I’m up 37 + to 9 - on The Independent Comments for Ribert Fisks column yesterday, Robert Fisk: Assad’s merciless assault risks wiping out both his country’s future ”“ and its past .


The Syrian Army fought in Damascus for the same reason it is fighting in Aleppo. A proxy army outfitted by the US, UK, Turkey, and Gulf oligarchs invaded Syria, a sovereign state. Other nations, even august columnists, don’t have to like the leader or the state run propaganda institutions to respect sovereign rights. NATO and the gulf oligarchs are sponsoring an invasion of Syria, the act that is directly responsible for the destruction Mr. Fisk describes. Those are the perpetrators most deserving of the living history award for barbarism.

The voting shows that, at the very least, readers of this article are fed up with the same old and tired spin. The Independent and Guardian are really tanking with their editorializing on Syria. Even in the news section, their bias is shameless.

You do not have to like Assad or endorse much of anything that he’s done to find objection to a sponsored invasion featuring plenty of terrorist bombings since the start of the year.

August 7th, 2012 | Category: Levant

1 comment to I'm up 37 to 9 on The Independent

  • Anonymous
    August 7, 2012 at 2:24 am
    bogwart • 16 hours ago • parent

     

    The people of Syria did not want a revolution. Assad had a very high approval rating in the country, repressive actions notwithstanding, for the simple reason that Syria is a secular state. We’ve seen as recently as last year in Libya what happens to such a state when the dogs of war are let slip.

    Of course there is an invasion of Syria. Not in the conventional military sense, but when scores of thousands of mercenaries paid for by the USA, Qatar and Saudi Arabia descend on the place, causing the mayhem, slaughter and destruction we have seen, then how else would you describe it?

    It astonishes me how many people like you insist on coming out with this claptrap [referring to a pro FSA comment], even though we have been consistently lied to for the past 11 years. Time after time after time reports splash out about this, that or the other massacre, and then a couple of days later the “real” news emerges. Yet you seem to prefer to demonise those whose propaganda and disinformation tell you to. Joe Goebbels would be so happy if he could see his prescriptions bearing fruit now.

    The Americans formulated a plan in the mid-1990s for the Middle East – as reported by General Wesley Clark. Their intention was, and remains, regime change in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. Since then they have obviously added Yemen to the list.

    This is hardly a spontaneous uprising by an oppressed people, as you suggest. The same thing was said about Libya last year, and I have no doubt that you were cheering on the “rebels” with as much fervour then.

    It’s about time some people came to their senses, dropped this idiotically romantic notion of peoples shedding their chains, and began to realise that it is in fact US who are encumbered by those chains. We are surrounded by information, yet you choose to tread the narrow path prescribed for you by the traitors who call themselves our governments. Syria and the rest may be brutal places for dissenters, but at least you know where you stand with them. Here, we have the smiling face and the dagger hidden behind the back. I know which I prefer.

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