Blood Ba’athist
February 24, 2012 | Filed Under Editorial Cartoons
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I drew a similar cartoon about a year ago before the real carnage began. I was never really happy with that rendition and so, with some changes, I’ve redrawn the cartoon. I think this one is much better drawn , more powerful and poignant and much more appropriate now, given the current bloodletting in Syria.
Blood-chilling truth.
What I find interesting is this administration was all happy to aid the earlier uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet, this one they just sit back on their heels and do nothing!
Jim: With Libya, you had a more organized opposition, Arab league backing, less AA and a clear objective. Not all revolutions unfold the same.
OK, G&G, what I’m saying is it seem there is a lack of the same diplomatic commitment in the Syrian Theater than the other locales. Libya was just as dis-organized when they started their overthrow. Remember the US reporters in the desert interviewing “rebels” who just showed up with themselves and no weapons? They’re increase in firepower was by means of overrunning a town or military position or in the soldiers going over to the side of the revolution. We got involved in the front end and then handed it over to the French, Brits and Italians to provide air cover to knock out armor and strong Libyan Army positions. The Syrians have cornered the rebels in their own towns and are shelling the places into rubble. The rebels are fighting tanks and ZSU-23 AA carriers with AK47 and some RPGs. They’re “objective” seems to be the overthrow of Assad.
The world just watches.
Check your facts Jim. Libya was not as disorganized as Syria is now at this point in their revolution. The revolutionary forces were controlling whole towns and were already advancing on the ground withing the first 2-3 weeks. The no-fly zone came after that. Protests in Syria have been going on for almost a year now.
It took ten days from the Day of Revolt for the National Transitional Council to be formed…who are we talking to in Syria? Where’s their political arm?
Plus, you forgot to factor in the Arab League and U.N. support (two resolutions) which established the no-fly zone. On top of that: Russia has a military base in the country, which just *might* explain their reason for vetoing any and every security council resolution.
Don’t get me wrong, this cretin Assad needs to go. Just don’t make it sound like it’s going to be a cakewalk.
What I’m trying to say here is Libya didn’t start out as well planned as one would think. The North African theatre started in and around Libya. Eygpt, Tunisia were the first to erupt; then it rolled across the other areas.
The rebels in Libya were fighting tanks and artillery with whatever means and methods available. The US and other western countries furnished and supplied aircover. OK, so now, there’s this “No Fly” zone. The world sits and watches because Assas isn’t going to give it up. He, and his “political arm” have a long history of taking out the opposition. They work in the same vein as Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
I don’t think the engineers at Toyota and Nissan ever designed their small trucks to be used a AA gun or rocket platforms. They worked effectively in Libya becasue there was room to manuver. In Syria, the opposition is fighting from the streets and alley-ways. The Syrian are dealing with same Soviet-made tanks and long-range heavy artillery and asking for arms from the outside. OK, so let the Arab League furnish them the needed equipment. We both know that’s not going to happen nor will any assistance from the UN.
I don’t know where in my response you got this idea I was making it “sound like a cakewalk.” If things in that part of the world were that easy, Assad, and his father, would have been done in a while back. This “cretin” is entrenched with all the cards. Syrian blood will continue to be spilled by a socio-path who cares not for his people or the rest of the world!
>I don’t know where in my response you got this idea I was >making it “sound like a cakewalk.”
When you said:
>What I find interesting is this administration was all happy
>to aid the earlier uprisings in the Middle East and North
>Africa. Yet, this one they just sit back on their heels and
>do nothing!
You compared the current situation in Syria to the uprising in Libya. They’re not the same.
G&G -
To quote Richard Brinkley Sheridan’s “The Critic,”:
“Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!”
Say “Good Night, Gracie!”
“Good Night, Gracie!”
Alas, we would only spoil this quarrel by trying to explain it.
Adieu, my pineapple friend, adieu.