Editor's Note: The following is an edited transcript of my interview with Abu Fares, a Syrian protester in Homs (identity withheld), Muna Jondy, a human rights attorney and president of United for a Free Syria based in the U.S. and Khaled Saleh, a Syrian National Council (SNC) Foreign Relations Official also based in the U.S. In the video above, the guests focus on the question of whether the international community should impose a humanitarian corridor on Syria.
Civil war in Syria? And life in Homs
Amar C. Bakshi (CNN world producer; host): Muna, from your vantage point, what is taking place in Syria right now? Is it a civil war?
Muna Jondy (human rights attorney): It’s not a civil war. With a civil war you’re talking about two relatively equal forces fighting. That’s absolutely not the case. It’s government aggression against protesters.
Many of the Free Syrian Army members defected - generally at the lower midlevel but nothing in terms of high-level defections. But the military force that the Free Syrian Army has is not enough to even defend itself. So I definitely wouldn’t describe it as a civil war. But I do think that the longer the international community takes to take serious action to protect civilians, the more likely this is going to spiral out into a full-armed uprising.
Amar C. Bakshi: What is life like in Homs? Could you give a sense of what the day-to-day is like where you are?
Abu Fares (protester in Homs): We live a catastrophe here. Everyday we are exposed to the random killing of the al-Assad forces. Everyday we have dozens of murdered and wounded civilians.
We can’t take our wounded to the hospitals because hospitals are occupied now with the regime’s security forces. We can’t take them to the private hospitals because the checkpoints and the snipers target anyone moving in the street. The al-Assad security forces even started bombing the field hospitals.
It’s really too bad a situation here inside. There is a big shortage in food, fuel and medicines.
International action? Humanitarian corridor?
Amar C. Bakshi: Abu, what do you think the international community should be doing right now for Syria?
Abu Fares: We need urgent action. We need safe humanitarian corridors. We need the international community to send the Red Cross and Human Rights organizations.
Of course, we need to support all the international community, because this situation is too bad here inside. We face this brutal regime alone, and now we don’t have more time for more initiatives and conferences. We need urgent and soon actions.
Amar C. Bakshi: Khaled Saleh, what do you think the international community should be doing right now?
Khaled Saleh (Syrian National Council official): One of the other things that we – the Syrian National Council - are in discussions with the U.S. and the European Union is establishing a humanitarian corridor in Syria. The situation in Homs is beyond horrific. People are getting killed. It’s very close to what happened in Benghazi, if you recall, when Gadhafi decided basically to wipe out the city.
I believe the al-Assad regime has come to a decision that in the month of February they’re going to stop the revolution one way or another. They’re willing to do whatever it takes.
We’re looking for the international community to provide us with this humanitarian corridor so we can at least get medical supplies and food to the people of Homs and get the injured outside of the city. Really, otherwise you’re telling the people of Homs that “You’re on your own.”
Amar C. Bakshi: Can you explain what a humanitarian corridor means, and how it would be implemented? Does it require force?
Khaled Saleh: A humanitarian corridor is going to require force, but it’s defensive. It’s not going to require offensive force to attack. Basically, we’re going to declare a corridor from a certain area to Homs, Syria for people to leave Syria with safe passage.
We believe that’s an acceptable solution for a world that’s not truly ready. The world doesn’t have the stomach at this point to go ahead and have the offensive strikes against the al-Assad regime.
One last thing that’s really important for us also to recognize is we want the international community to recognize the rights of Syrians to defend themselves.
We have the 14th largest army in the world, with 340,000, using all of its weapons, including the latest T-90 tanks coming from Russia against unarmed civilians. We want to the world to recognize the rights of the Syrian people to defend themselves.
Amar C. Bakshi: Another viewer asks, how realistic is it to create and maintain a humanitarian corridor in the presence of the current regime’s brutality? Do you think that the al-Assad regime would not attack a humanitarian corridor?
Khaled Saleh: I think if you actually established that humanitarian corridor, that Syrian army will not dare to attack it, because they understand if they attack it, they will give a reason for the international community to attack them.
And in the big scheme of things, the Syrian army, the 14th largest army in the world, is only capable of attacking its own people. It’s not going to get into a war with another army. We understand that very well.
So I think if you establish that humanitarian corridor, the Syrian army, they’ll fuss about it and they’ll talk about it and they’ll complain, but I don’t think they’ll dare to attack it. They don’t want to have something similar to what happened in Libya or Iraq happening to them.
Arm the opposition?
Amar C. Bakshi: Do you think that the West or the international community ought to more aggressively arm the Syrian opposition – the Free Syrian Army and others?
Khaled Saleh: At this point, the West is not ready, and this is really the conversation that we’ve been having with them for a while. It’s not ready to get involved militarily in Syria. And, to some extent, I understand why this is a difficult decision to make. The only other option that remains is the humanitarian corridor.
I know that there’s also a voice that’s asking to arm the Free Syrian Army. At least this way you would allow those civilians and military defectors to protect themselves. We can’t just be sitting on the sidelines, having a theoretical discussion while hundreds of people are getting killed every day.
Amar C. Bakshi: One of our viewers asks if arming the opposition risks igniting a regional sectarian war or a sectarian war within Syria. Does that concern you at this stage?
Abu Fares: We are aware enough of this risk. The regime is trying to push us to be involved in a civil war. But it will not succeed. The objective of this revolution is to get freedom and dignity for Syrian people - for all Syrians. And the revolution, you don’t fight only the Sunnis. You fight also for the Jews and Christian activists in this revolution.
And if you notice, last week, there was a demonstration in a Druze city in the south of Syria. And the Druze issued a statement announcing that they are supporting the revolution.
There are also many Alawite activists who joined the revolution and participated in the demonstrations also. As I told you, we are aware of this risk, and we try our best to avoid being involved in a such a dirty game with the regime.
Minority rights
Amar C. Bakshi: Another viewer asks about post-Assad Syria. What guarantees do you have that Christians and Alawites will be able to participate in a new government and that their rights will be respected?
Muna Jondy: I’d like to comment on that. United for a Free Syria has a position paper on minority rights. And you know, there’s a couple of things I would talk about. First of all, it would be the historical realities in the region. And the historical reality is that Syria has actually been very proud of its pluralistic society.
And there isn’t a history of the majority oppressing the minority. The majority Sunni Syrians, you know, cracking down on the Alawites, Christians, Druze or Kurds. However, I would say that, OK, that’s historical.
But let’s look at the reality now. I mean, look at the Syrian National Council. The Syrian National Council found every possible minority to include under the umbrella of the SNC. And the SNC has representatives of all minorities in the body.
And listen to Abu Fares here. He’s in Homs. He’s being attacked by what is in large an Alawite regime. But on the ground, from the beginning of the revolution, the streets have emphasized that the Syrian people are one - no sectarianism. Alawites, Kurds, Druze, Sunnis, Muslims, Christians, we are all one.
And even now, despite the fact that the crackdown has increased, you’re listening to somebody who’s on the receiving end and is still saying that [sectarianism] is not a reality for us. So I think that there are sectarian politics that the regime tries to flame. But I don’t think that it’s that much of a reality.
Now, on the other hand, it just briefly about the arming and the concern about a sectarian war in the region, I think that it’s unfortunate that we’re having this conversation, Amar, because we’re having this conversation only because the international community is refusing to act. And inaction is not an option. People sitting back and just getting massacred is not an option.
So since the whole world sits back and doesn’t want to do anything, they say, “Well, we’ll give them weapons.” I just feel like if we take that road, then we need to recognize as an international community that that was a decision that we made. We had other options and we chose not to use them.
What can we do to help?
Amar C. Bakshi: Dennis Rygrand asks in situations like this, smaller nations like Sweden, Denmark or Norway, feel quite powerless. In what way can we help you? What kind of actions would help? And I suppose this would be an interesting time to talk, not just about at the national level, but at the individual level. What would you call on people around the world to do for Syria and Syrians?
Khaled Saleh: I think at this point political pressure helps tremendously. The Syrian government still enjoys political relations, formal relations with many of the countries around the world.
What we’re asking for is shut down these Syrian embassies, because I think that will delegitimize the current regime. It will send a very strong message to people who have been sitting on the sideline until now, that the world is telling you that you cannot continue supporting - even by being silent - this regime.
So I think that will be a tremendous amount of help. The other way is right now we’ve established a whole bunch of relief, humanitarian relief organizations, ShaamRelief.org is a non-profit organization that is trying to get some money and some humanitarian assistance to the people on the ground.
We estimate currently in the SNC that Syrians need about $20 million just to sustain themselves every month. We’re able to get about a million dollars into Syria. So no matter how much money we’re getting in, you can imagine, we’re getting about 5 percent of what the people need.
Muna Jondy: I’d like to add on the political pressure side: we live in democracies and we are constituents. As constituents, we have a voice. And so, like here in the U.S., for example, we have Senator Casey who introduced a resolution in the Senate. I feel in Michigan that what I need to do and mobilize my friends to do is to contact our senators and say, “Sign onto that resolution. “
Voices mean something. We shouldn’t underestimate the power of the people to tell their elected officials, you need to take more of an action.
Smaller countries can take action diplomatically. So, for example, when we’re talking about intervention, why are we talking about military intervention first? Why are we talking about arming the FSA? Why aren’t we talking about stopping Russian weaponry from getting into Syria? It’s not like they’re parachuting tanks from the sky. Russian weaponry is coming through other countries’ jurisdictions. There’s diplomatic effort that we can pressure any country that has good relationships and say, “Why don’t you tell them, ‘Not on my land?’”
Amar C. Bakshi: Let me just give the final word to Abu Fares in Homs.
Abu Fares: This regime ruled Syria for almost 49 years by one party, and Ba’ath party. The al-Assads ruled Syria for 42 years. These years were full of blood and corruption. These regimes supported terrorism in this region.
It sent terrorist groups to Iraq and Lebanon. By letting us be killed every day alone in Syria, you are helping the regime and creating a proper environment for extremism in this region. Please help us, because we want to live in a peace and in a free democratic state like the other nations in the civilized world.
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is this a political war because isreal doesn't like syria? is it an opportunistic war for air space or corridor to attack iran?
for oil?
This is a war waged by the Syrian government against its own people. It began when Assad's troops fired upon unarmed and peaceful protesters and has escalated into a vicious and stupid bloodbath.
If you are insinuating Assad is killing his people because of oil, then you are a loon
No its not in any way, you are trying to manipulate this situation with your incorrect bias.
You're trying to get us into a proxy war with Russia. Russia will not let the regime fall. They will give the regime everything it needs to survive. Their pride is too great to let it fall.
I notice a little lie here.
(The situation in Homs is beyond horrific. People are getting killed. It’s very close to what happened in Benghazi, if you recall, when Gadhafi decided basically to wipe out the city.)
Gadhafi never wanted nor decided to wipe out Benghazi, i believe from the other news networks sources that he just wanted to maintain order, Gadhafi wasn't that evil.
Yeah i can see how The New Libya is doing a pretty horrid place it is now, food prices rising buildings haven't been rebuild I guess The Syrian NTC wouldn't mind another Libya in there hands.
Actually, Gadaffi's son did say they were going to wipe them out. However, NATO stepped in just in time and prevented the slaughter from happening.
NATO is the one doing the killing and strafing of innocent Libyans. To them all Libyans friends or foes look alike.
just to remind people that when Russia and chine don't want something it would happen . go back in history and check Vietnam. we should also remember that we are broke country paying 4.20 a gallon of gas tell Syria propaganda mouth pieces to stop and just go and vote next elections in three month and and as for Hilary Clinton please is embracing to see her running around and screaming like a psycho .some must tell her that chine and Russia said no...
STAY OUT!
A simple declarative statement like that is an abnegation of all that america has stood for since the Henry Clay days. We have always financed if not stood by groups that have tried to transfer the sovereignty of their country to the people of that country. Syria should be owned by the Syrians and we should not allow the baser sort of Syrians who would slaughter them to win out. Not while we still call ourselves Americans. I hate what's happening right now and I wonder if American politicians would not be so timid if it were not an election year.
It is an election year and the politicians have heard from everyday Americans. We are tired of being the world's policeman. We can't afford it. As soon as we try they attack us. Maybe the Arab countries should handle their own regional problems.
Why is there no icon to Email a copy of this article to others? This article is posted to expose the problems the people of Syria are having with Assad and they are asking for help evinced by the questions posed by Amar Bakshi and the responses that the people of Syria are being slautered and need all basics like food, water, medical supplies, humanitarian aid of all kinds. Is this organization anti-Syrian? Most news organizations would post information where people could go to donate humanitarian aid...come on CNN....
If it is that important to you, just take 5 seconds and copy and paste the link into your email.
Are they manufacturing or harboring chemical weapons?
I don't know these people so I don't care. There are lots of bacteria dying in my laundry but I don't care about them either.
Your a disgusting human being...I only hope that in your life something doesnt happen that your children or family are being killed or hurt and as you cry and beg for help others tell you they dont care.
Fareed: Why don't you go over there and do some real investigative reporting ? We have enough opinion writers. It would be a chance to prove to the world how brave you are and give you some creditability.
No child should have to live like or thru this..What the hell is wrong with us..I dont know who is wrong or right on either side of this conflict and really dont care...Only thing that should matter is that children should not be suffering as they are.
Why doesn't the Arab League offer assistance or other countries in the region who are friendly to Syria? Seems everyone is waiting for US or Nato help.
we must stop this evil before it is too late, remember HITLER......
those shiia thugs have no value for life...they are killers with stupid thyology of islam the shiia are cult and
they breed evil, now they are killing there own people in syria UN MUST ACT, THEY ACTED ON LIBYA IN NO TIME AND THEY DID IT IN IRAQ , WHILE IN LIBYA AND IRAQ IT WAS ONLY FEW HUNDEREDS WERE KILLED NOW WE HAVE MORE THAN 12,000 CEVILIANS KILLED AND MURDERED BY BASHAR AL KALB IN SYRIA BY IRAN MONEY AND RUSSIAN ARMS, we must sanction russia and get red of all the embassies and cut any deals with them.
arm the resistant to fight russians on there land,and fight iran and syrians thugs we must not stand silenet when we see evil at action.
Yes let the Yanks in and they will kill a hundred thousands. After all they love to bomb brown people.
Laundry is done.
The Arab League hasn't offered any assistance because abstaining is what they do best and abstaining is what the Arab world does best when their brothers and sisters are being murdered by Israel's American war powered machines! There you have so many oil rich countries in the Middle East with influence and power, yet they wouldn't use that leverage to defuse the Israeli-Palestine conflict and try to get Palestine a home land. And what the Arab league and Arab world seem to be best at is depending on American sons and daughters to spill blood for their cause. No, its time you people get together and help one another!
يا أبناء شعبنا الصابر
يا أبناء امتنا العربية
منذ أن أُبتُلي العراق بالاحتلال الأميركي الصهيوني الفارسي البغيض نفذ المحتلون وحلفائهم الأشرار وعملائهم الأخساء سلسلة من عمليات الإبادة للشعب العراقي كانت حصيلتها اكثر من مليون ونصف المليون شهيد عراقي ، فضلاً عن ملايين الجرحى والمعوقين وخمسة ملايين مهجر ، ناهيكم عن عمليات التجويع والإفقار والحرمان من الخدمات بل وتدمير العراق أرضاً وشعباً وحضارةً واقتصاداً ، حيث شُلت الصناعة والزراعة وأستحوذ السراق من العملاء على التجارة والخدمات ووظفوها في خدمة مصالحهم الخاصة .
وبسبب ذلك كله والانهيار الأمني المريع فقد تتالت التفجيرات الإجرامية وغطًت أيام الأسبوع كله ، والتي سميت كلها بالأيام الداميات والتي تكررت فيها التفجيرات الدامية وآخرها وليس أخيرها تفجيرات يوم الخميس الثالث والعشرين من شباط الجاري والتي راح ضحيتها المئات من الشهداء والجرحى في بغداد وصلاح الدين وبابل ونينوى وديالى وكركوك وبقية محافظات العراق .
وكانت وما زالت وستبقى التفجيرات الإجرامية المتتابعة في العراق لطخة عار صارخة في جبين حكومة المالكي العميلة التي استمرأت عمليات ذبح الشعب العراقي بهذه التفجيرات الإجرامية والاغتيال بالكواتم وحملات الاعتقالات الغاشمة الواسعة النطاق المصحوبة بالقمع والتعذيب الوحشي ، والتي شملت الآلاف من المناضلين البعثيين وضباط وطياري وضباط صف الجيش العراقي الباسل وأبناء شعبنا الأبي في الشهور الأربعة الماضية والمضافة الى مئات الآلاف من المعتقلين على امتداد سنوات الاحتلال البغيض .
يا أبناء شعبنا المكافح
لقد حاول العميل المالكي وبطانته الشريرة استثمار ظروف هزيمة المحتلين الاميركان بفعل الضربات القاصمة والعمليات الجبارة لمجاهدي البعث والمقاومة بالإفصاح عن عمالته المباشرة لإيران الصفوية التي سلمها المحتلون الاميركان خسئوا العراق ، فراح هذا العميل الصغير المالكي يُصَعد من عملياته القمعية ونهب جلاوزته لثروات وأموال الشعب العراقي وتجنيد ( الميليشيات الإرهابية المرتبطة به مباشرة ) لتكريس سلطته القمعية الديكتاتورية في محاولة بائسة لتجاوز هزيمة العملية السياسية المخابراتية بهزيمة صناعها المحتلين الاميركان عبر تصعيد عمليات التصفية والاحتراب بين أطراف هذه العملية ، والتي بلغت ذروتها عبر فبركة الجرائم وتحميل هذه الأطراف مسؤوليتها والإمعان في شل أجهزة الدولة التي دمرها المحتلون وتعطيل حركة الحياة في ميادينها الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والسياسية والثقافية كلها .
وقيادة قطر العراق لحزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي إذ تستنكر ممارسات حكومة المالكي العميلة المدانة كلها فأنها تستنكر بشدة التفجيرات الإجرامية المتواصلة ، وتحمل هذه الحكومة العميلة المسؤولية الكاملة عنها بوضعها تحت قصاص الشعب العادل الذي لن يصبر طويلاً على جرائم المالكي وزمرته العميلة ، وسيواصل نضاله وثورته العارمة وحتى التقويض الكامل للعملية السياسية المخابراتية التي راح أطرافها يتلهون بمناوراتهم الخائبة دائرين ظهورهم لأبناء شعبنا الأبي الذي يرسفون في معاناتهم القاسية عبر اللعب على النغمات النشاز من قبيل السعي المحموم لعقد ما لم يتفقون على تسميته من قبيل ( المؤتمر ) أو ( الملتقى ) أو ( الاجتماع ) ، فالجميع يعتقدون واهمين أنهم يكسبون الوقت على حساب معاناة أبناء شعبنا الصابر الذي لم ولن يَبُت على ضيم وإنما يُواصل جهاده الملحمي وحتى الإسقاط النهائي للعملية السياسية المخابراتية وإقامة حكم الشعب التعددي الديمقراطي الشعبي المستقل والعادل ويمضي قُدماً على طريق النهوض والتقدم الحضاري والإنساني الشامل .
وإن غداً لناظره قريب .
My fellow Americans we are not the world's police man no should we or anyone be. Police arrest, then allow those that are to present evidence on their own behalf to a jury of their peers, who then decide true guilt or innocense based on evidence. Americans are simply the armed henchmen for a corporate media driven court of public opinion that they manufacture and create through editorialized reporting designed to emotionally manipulate people into doing just that. However when the accused turns out to not have the WMD they were accused of having it's opps sorry we meant well and built you a new hospital and school.
anti-Americanism is reflexive and mindless
Stay out!
can live with all the foreigners that hate us because I really don't care. What I can't live with are self-hating Americans!
destroy assad NOW
the UN is the world's policeman. to hell with china and russia, they don't want to set a precedent for their pown corrupt governments. and so, they sacrafice their concience for political self interest. YHEY ARE USELESS.
the UN must intervene in this genicide and destroy this demon assad
Geez. Get a grip and stop buying Fareed's propaganda. We can all see just how much improvement the "revolutions" have brought to the women and progressives of the ME. Maybe Assad is just trying to keep his country civilized and not turn it over to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The people in Homs have my sympathy and moral support. It's most important that the SNC is united in order to show that the world is not helping a bunch of fringe groups. Talking about staying alive, the Syrians need about $20 million just to sustain themselves every month. Shouldn't the rich GCC states like Saudi Arabia and Qatar help? They could channel the funds over Jordan. Try to establlish a stronghold in places near the borders, as the regime forces can't be deployed all over the country. Keep going strong!
Amar, thanks for the discussion! It's disheartening to see what an ordeal the people in Homs go through! It looks as if Bashar wants to have the Hama massacre in 1982 repeated in Homs and outdo his father's brutality.
I would establish a humanitarian corredor protected by a no-fly zone. The will of the world must prevail over two rouge nations, China and Russia!. The UN should give Russia and China 24 hours to back the humanitarian corredor protected by the UN forces, or all relations will be suspended and the embassadors withdrawn. 24 hours is for them enough time to choose: either they want good relations with the world, or they prefer to support a foul dictator with a sea of blood on his hands!
Nice that CNN censored my first comment. No Comment to freedom of media in US
PLEASE after months of corporate media coverage cynically blaming the al-Assad regime as murderous while ignoring reports of CIA and NATO snipers killing civilians.The Free Syrian Army is widely recognized as a creation of NATO. It is comprised largely of militants from the Muslim Brotherhood – itself an asset of British intelligence – and is funded, supported, and armed by the United States, Israel, and Turkey. The media for lending phony moral legitimacy to intervention in Syria. Syria has no choice but to secure every square foot of its territory. “Faced with the certainty of superpower-backed attack under the guise of ‘protecting’ civilians in “liberated” territory, Syria cannot afford to cede even one neighborhood of a single city – not one block! – or of any rural or border enclave, to armed rebels and foreign jihadis.” Read: http://globalresearch .ca/index .php?context=va&aid=29422 Read: http://globalresearch .ca/index .php?context=va&aid=29476
Wow...now who is a propagandist? You and Baghdad Bob should continue to spread the word.
Good Luck with that!
The Free Syrian Army is widely recognized as a creation of NATO......
Recognized by who ?
You ?
Thats one.
World Do something...Do Something.
There is one human right that is never thought of – and that is Nature and the escape from violent non-humanity back to whatever Nature is available – meaning that if I found myself in a place like Syria during such an oppression and such a violent uprising and downplaying from the moment's government – i would hide and run so far away – i would pick up my family (if possible) (but no belongings) and run to a free land: whatever free land and part of Nature i could reach – or i would submit to death in my non-violent flight to freedom – but i would never stand and kill my fellow people in any "civil war", even if enemies were perceivable
We are too broke to keep playing World Cop.
The Muslim Brothers / Islamists that have generated people like Al-Zawahiri and Bin Laden are now the good guys and the beacon for democracy and freedom … the Jihadi armed rebels are the peaceful civilians … And Saudi Arabia is helping the Syrians to get their “freedom” and “democracy” … Are we living in a crazy world or what?
There are lots of people here who need serious help – more than Syrians do.
I think they are in serious pain.
There is old Russian saying: When God wants to punish somebody, he takes away his mind.
It is unbearable to see so many mentally disturbed people here.
I do not know about you, but I am out of here!
Assad,
We get it. You're a ruthless and insane dictator, who is determined to cling to power, no matter how much blood you have to spill and no matter how many innocent men, women and children you must kill.
We get it.
The wickedest dictators who ever lived would be impressed by your complete disregard for human life, your greed, and your blood-lust.
We get it. You're a wicked man. And the generals who are conspiring with you are vile.
We'll see you at your genocide trial.
Assad and his family will be killed in Syria, their next steps will be very bloody
Dear peoples.
Me and my wife are sitting here watching television.
We are drinking tea.
The sky is sunny, and the day is bright.
There is a rumour that there is a war in my country.
We do not allow wars in my country, unless we start them
Our wonderfull friends, the Russians have kindly loaned us some tanks,
just to make sure no wars break out.
Ignore those pictures and videos you see around the world.
We are just turning some of the older parts of our country into farms.
Long live Al-Assads Syria.
I say, it is traitors like you that bring disgrace to the world! You are comfortable with a tyrant! Other people in Syria want to replace this Bloodsucker! Are they worse than you are?
This regime must go
To demand a Ceasefire from one side and not the other reveals the true intent of overthrowing yet another regime in the Middle East. Legitimate Patriots don’t fight behind women and children and use their deaths to bring about foreign intervention.
Way to go red cross doing the only logical thing to do .... getting people who dont want to die out.
I see no reason to assist the Syrian Rebel/al-Qaeda coalition.
How comes the Arab League just talks,talks, talks .. and killings go on ?!
Whenever there is a "western intervention" in a islamic country, all over the world there are milions of filo-arab outcries against it and everybody all those "brothers in spirit" condemn "the capitalistic interference" because it is "all about the oil" etc. If people are always ready to hypocritically protest .. why don't they care about their neighbours and brothers when it comes to do some action to help.. ?!
Humanitarian corridor sounds good. But the US and the west will use this corridor as a highway of heroes to be. It will be insanity if Assad allows this. Look at the situation, the west had been doing its dirty work for months, now you give them a highway to continue with more intensity. The problem is Syria is syria's internal problem, Democracy calls 51 percent majority. Can anyone of you out there tell me with some sense of accuracy if the insurgents surpass 8 percent of the populace. And what about the other much higher percentage of quiet law abiding citizens that Assad is trying to protect. Today is sunday, the lord's day. Just for today, try to think rationally.
I find it ironic that Obama could drop bombs in Libya without congressional, but has adopted a do-nothing (non-military) stance against the Assad dictastorship of Syria which is truely an enemy of the world. Perhaps, he's afraid of the Russians and Chinese or maybe its a fact that they don't respect this inept president at all! ...come to think of it, nobody here in the states respects him either!