Nations of Virtue bay for blood after alleged Syrian gas attack

The "red-liners" are making a concerted effort to use this chemical weapon issue as the lever that will directly engage the US and some of the me-too nations in the euphemistically tagged "Syrian Crisis."

News sites across the western world are at this very moment unanimous in blaming Assad for the attack.

The source of this info seems to be William Hague, who apparently gets the straight skinny directly from George Sabra of the UK-US sponsored Syrian National Coalition.

Therefore this is an obviously impartial verdict coming down the chain of a whole lot of folks with no irons in the fire.

Bullshit!

It's almost impossible to imagine that Assad's military brain trust would choose to deploy chemical weapons on the very day that UN chemical weapons inspectors arrive in the country.

The entire "red line" issue is a bit of a red herring to begin with. Why has it been decided, and by whom, that spending a half hour bleeding to death while trying to push your intestines back where they belong after being collateral damage in a Hellfire missile strike is a perfectly acceptable death, but dying in your sleep in a gas attack is a red line, the crossing of which marks a war crime?

But politics being what it is, it looks more and more as though the red-liners will have their way.

The blow-back will come soon enough, and once again the pundits will scratch their collective heads and wonder aloud why "they" hate us.

Nations of Virtue leave Syrian opposition twisting in the wind

It's pretty much over for the dupes who dared rise up against Assad.

They are now sitting ducks, waiting to be mopped up by Assad loyalists. And you know what that means.

All the big talk about how Assad will crumble is pretty much forgotten now, especially in those countries most vocal in their condemnation of Assad.

Today SNC acting President George Sabra made a pathetic and desperate plea for more military assistance.

That won't be happening, my friend.

And it's partially the fault of Sabra and his minions, who allowed their "revolution" to be hi-jacked by parties that everyone always knew could never be countenanced by the Nations of Virtue.

Jabhat al Nusra might find sympathy in Saudi Arabia, but so did Bin Laden. They won't find much in the NATO nations.

True, you've still got Hague and Fabius clamoring for more arms to the Syrian rebels, but those are marginal men running from their domestic issues. Fabius in particular has no credibility whatsoever. France more than has her hands full in Mali. If they can't see that through, they shouldn't even dream about Syria.

And Hague is just running a diversionary campaign to take the British electorate's eye off Cameron's foibles at home.

The future of  Syria has been decided in Washington.

And in Washington they seem resigned to Assad staying on awhile.

Syrian opposition needs $60 billion in aid in next six months

That's according to George Sabra, the former communist who is now the leader of the old SNC, which is not to be confused with the new SNC, but is a part of the new SNC...

Anyway, George is making headlines today with his call for 60 billion in aid for the six month period after the fall of Assad, which he is pretty sure will be tomorrow or maybe the day after.

60 billion over six months might be a little steep for the Nations of Virtue. After all, half of them are courting financial collapse themselves.

According to the CIA World Factbook, $60B was Syria's GDP the year before the revolution started.

I know that commies are notoriously incompetent at budgeting and all that stuff, but how is such a number even conceivable?

I think George is figuring on a chicken in every pot every day and a Volvo in every garage to come up with 60 billion.

Maybe it's just his opening gambit. Maybe they'll settle for 60 millions instead of 60 billions.

Hell, this is all contingent on Assad going somewhere, which he doesn't seem to be in any great rush to do.

In fact, now that Assad is taking the lead in fighting al Qaeda, maybe we should keep him around for awhile... and save 60 billion bucks!

Uncle Sam's bum-boys assume mantle of "only legitimate representatives of the Syrian people"

Without discounting the sincerity of their love for Syria, it is obvious that the gang of four who now lead the official Syrian opposition after this week's Doha summit have one other thing in common.

None of them are on the ground in Syria leading the fight against Assad.

And as al Jazeera reports, the lobbying has already begun to have this puppet group recognized as the only legitimate representative of the Syrian people.

It's quite a coalition leadership Hillary's minions have assembled.

A feminist, a commie, a businessman, and an appropriately "moderate" imam. That's clearly an assemblage designed to appeal to the Western public. Hell, they got everybody on board except the proverbial one-legged black lesbian!

Unfortunately, matters on the ground in Syria are way past a point where this bit of theater is going to make any difference. The hardcore Islamists who are the driving force behind the revolution won't be taking orders from any of these folks or their coalition or their paymasters in Washington.

What this exercise does is attempt to legitimize a US-friendly counter revolution on the ground. This will emerge in the coming weeks and will be heavily supported in western media and the Nations of Virtue.

This will ensure a lengthy war of attrition between the al-Qaeda friendly Islamists who have carried the fight thus far, and Hillary's hand-picked Washington-approved Western-friendly Doha "rebels", a war that will continue long after Assad is gone.

Life-long Communist becomes Uncle Sam's bum-boy in Syria

Ya right!

You know from the get-go that this is a marriage that will last until the shipments of Stinger missiles are cut off.

George Sabra knows that Uncle Sam is not his friend. In fact, as a committed commie, George Sabra knows that Uncle Sam is his avowed enemy.

Anyone with a brain should be able to figure out that a secular Christian communist isn't going to last long among the Salafist extremists who are doing the heavy lifting in Syria.

But at this point in time, Sabra is Uncle Sam's best bet in Syria.

This does not bode well for American designs on Syria.