"Brutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West"

"The Syrian rebels posed casually, standing over their prisoners with firearms pointed down at the shirtless and terrified men."

The prisoners, seven in all, were captured Syrian soldiers. Five were trussed, their backs marked with red welts. They kept their faces pressed to the dirt as the rebels’ commander recited a bitter revolutionary verse. The moment the poem ended, the commander, known as “the Uncle,” fired a bullet into the back of the first prisoner’s head. His gunmen followed suit, promptly killing all the men at their feet.

This scene, documented in a video smuggled out of Syria a few days ago by a former rebel who grew disgusted by the killings, offers a dark insight into how many rebels have adopted some of the same brutal and ruthless tactics as the regime they are trying to overthrow.

The NY Times article includes part of the smuggled video, warning of "graphic scenes some viewers may find disturbing".

Chip Ahoy said...

It is stunning to observe how naturally the responsibility for spouting off his big fat loose stupid mouth is shifted to the whole world and how smoothly and naturally responsibility for taking the country directly where the entire country says "don't do this" is shifted to congress, and how naturally and smoothly and seamlessly all observable mechanisms fall into place to make that possible.

The world did not draw that red line, he did.
He tried to backpedal and could not. His supporters are doing this. It is not right.

The man has done this his whole life, and his enablers positively surround him and keep him inflated and carry him along as big puffy Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade balloon, Party arms holding ropes, steering around corners, never tiring.

And then contrast that with the observables of responsibility falling flatly upon the shoulders of a single individual irrespective of the coalition established, you don't have to be partisan to be deeply and truly appalled.

I do not hate the man. But I am hating the Party that holds him aloft and instigates so much trouble constantly for its own subsistence more and more each passing day. Each day it resembles the Nazis more and more closely. This is a brilliant example. The DNC is taking our country directly to a place where it absolutely should not be, and saying otherwise. And they're doing it because the president they put and maintain in place did what he does, flapped his lips aggressively imagining no real world consequences. That entire government Departments will swing into action to activate the golden words of their idol. So that he can actually say and actually believe that the world is hooked up directly to his mouth, and that he does not fully control what comes out of it when the world speaks through him. Truly demented.