The Blind Ophthalmologist

The world versus Bashar Al Assad


Josh Landis wrote a few weeks ago: “The US Wants to Get Bashar by the throat and Shake Him Hard to See What Change Falls out of his Pockets”.

This is by far the most appropriate description I have read for the current US pressures on Syria. Everyday that passes, something new comes up. The US is literally using all means possible to squeeze the Assad regime. There is talk of military operations inside Syria, There is diplomatic coordination between Washington, Paris, London and Moscow in preparation for the Mehlis report, There is pressure from Lebanon (Seniora speaks of embassies and border demarcation, Hariri’s newspaper starts to reveal the juicy stuff), There is pressure from Inside Syria in the form of a Syrian opposition meeting in Paris (Josh just writes however that it was bust). Even the carrot that America seems to have offered to Syria was poisonous.
America is not just putting pressure on Syria. America is playing with its food.

The fall of Bashar al Assad is looming; this once promising “Western educated” eye-doctor proved to be not only scandalously incompetent, but much more hardline than his father. If only Israel would let him go..