What u posted? That US gave 6 million $ to some anti Assad news channel? And thats why Assad and Iran can barrel bomb towns? I dont understand what u are trying to say.
I made several points in my post. Let me summarize them,
1) Outside players actively were engaged in destabilizing the Assad government before the events & continued doing so as it happened. This escalated the the issue in an unnatural way. We have seen this happen in many other countries in the pass.
2) The government tried to appease the opposition by certain acts, such as releasing prisoners, making reforms, etc. This could have been a good opportunity for regional players to continue encouraging this to reduce tensions, instead of adding fuel to the fire.
3) The government claimed from early on that the opposition was Islamist who were trying to set a caliphate which later on turned out to be true.
None of this means I think Assad is the second coming of Jesus Christ. I think he badly handled the protests early on, he had taken little precautions against the possibility of outside players destabilizing his country, and he was always one step behind in taking decisive action.
However, if regional players had good intentions instead of being high after overthrowing Libya, they could have worked honestly on bettering the lives of Syrians. Iran wasn't against talks, Russia wasn't against talks, and Assad wasn't against talks. It was the opposition backed by Turkey & Qatar mainly which claimed that they wouldn't have talks unless Assad steps down. Such pre-talk conditions has never once, in the history of diplomacy, ever worked.
By seeing the whole thing in black and white, rather than looking at it in an honest, unbiased manner, is one of the reasons the world is such a terrible, chaotic place.
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So anyway,
Assad among the people released on Eid.
Shitty song, but interesting to see him among the people. Also, I remember thinking he was a bad wartime president (no charisma), but after 4 years, I bet his calm, dentist image makes a lot of Syrians tired of war warm up to him. On one hand its a boring and bland looking dentist and on the other hand, you have angry rebel leaders with beards screaming and shouting for the past 4 years.