From the Reform Party of Syria:
Thousands of Syrians protest for 3rd straight day, call on Assad to end emergency law; gov’t promises to release 15 arrested schoolchildren.
Syrian security forces killed a protester in the southern city of Deraa on Sunday, residents said, as the authorities tried to contain three days of protests demanding freedoms and the release of political prisoners.
Raed al-Kerad was shot dead in the new part of Deraa, where gunfire is still being heard, residents said. He is the fifth civilian killed by security forces since protests against Syria’s ruling elite erupted in Deraa on Friday.
Thousands of Syrians demanded an end to 48 years of emergency law on Sunday…
More civilians being killed by yet another brutal regime. What will we do? We’re launched massive air strikes on Libya for this – so, in to Syria we go?
Not exactly, because we don’t have sufficient forces to strike everywhere at the same time. Still, we have to be ready for anything. Other reports I’ve read indicate that Iran (a long-time ally of Syria) has sent some of their best goons to help murder Syrians demanding an end to the Assad regime. The whole area over there is a powder keg and the temperature is rising.
While we cannot entirely control events over there and, in the end, the people there will have to largely figure it out for themselves, the inescapable truth is that our problem – the American problem – stems from Tehran. All of the enemy forces in that area are in some degree or another backed by Iran. The Iranian government hopes to ride the wave of discontent to increased power in the middle east…our ultimate job is to ensure that wave of discontent shows up in Tehran. Getting rid of the mullahs would be a major victory in our battle with Islamism…and that is what our efforts should be directed at.
Though, of course, we could leverage a Syrian revolution in to just such a downfall in Iran…
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