Syria Disintegrating: Part 2

[Ed Anger]

So why shouldn't the rebels shell Turkey with mortars ad inifinitum? It is in their interest to harass Turkey, not the military's.

Most modern armies have counter-battery radar they can use to shell the spot an incoming round came from.

Damn, that would be very useful in World of Tanks. 

Recorded in case you run for office.

[jimmy olsen]

Rebels have a 9K33 Osa!

:22 seconds in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKEGZLmVPiI

Rebels capture a  checkpoint and  tank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt8-q9arEQ

[DGuller]

Wow, all those RussiaToday videos in the related links of the second video.    Russian propaganda networks, with their useful Western idiots, are up and running again.

[FunkMonk]

I like that this is the first war I've seen primarily via Youtube.

This is YouTube's Persian Gulf War. 

[jimmy olsen]

Looks like the government may be able to retake Homs.

Blood is gonna run like a river.

[Sheilbh]

I found this map from Hurriyet useful/interesting:

[CountDeMoney]

I wonder if Mittens has identified which ones he wants to arm.

[Viking]

I wonder if Mittens has identified which ones he wants to arm.

I'd arm the beduin and kurdish communists.

but.. also.. find baathist deserters, make your own free syrian army.

[Razgovory]

I wonder if Mittens has identified which ones he wants to arm.

I'd arm the beduin and kurdish communists.

but.. also.. find baathist deserters, make your own free syrian army.

I think the Kurdish communists are on our terrorist watch list.  I don't think they are real communists anyway.  Fuck this shit.  Lets not arm anyone.

[DGuller]

We need to lead from our behind.

[Viking]

I wonder if Mittens has identified which ones he wants to arm.

I'd arm the beduin and kurdish communists.

but.. also.. find baathist deserters, make your own free syrian army.

I think the Kurdish communists are on our terrorist watch list.  I don't think they are real communists anyway.  Fuck this shit.  Lets not arm anyone.

The reason I picked the first two groups is that they have an affinity with two of the west's most important allies in the region. The Kurds of Iraq and the  Hashemite Monarchy. They don't have an association with the Ba'athist regime and have revolutionary bona fides as well as an ability to supply and defend themselves if armed properly.

I added the Ba'athists for the simple reason that they are very very much worried about being murdered and the Arab Dawn movement from Iraq can help them understand how to behave.

[Darth Wagtaros]

The Kurds have committed numerous acts of murder and terror against our NATO ally: Turkey. Screw 'em and the PKK.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

The Kurds have committed numerous acts of murder and terror against our NATO ally: Turkey. Screw 'em and the PKK.

that probably because that nato-ally has committed many many acts of oppression and murder against the kurds. At some point it's enough and bad stuff starts to happen.

[Darth Wagtaros]

The Kurds have committed numerous acts of murder and terror against our NATO ally: Turkey. Screw 'em and the PKK.

that probably because that nato-ally has committed many many acts of oppression and murder against the kurds. At some point it's enough and bad stuff starts to happen.

One is our ally and the other isn't.  It would be better to have Turkey as a friend than the Kurds.

[Grinning_Colossus]

The PKK is actually hostile to the Peshmerga-allied militias and is fighting in support of the regime.