Wednesday, August 1, 2012

How to leave a country in ruins

First you create chaos:
Syria unrest: Who are the shabiha? -
29 May 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14482968

Second you destroy the infrastructure and do a little ethnic cleansing and blame it on the West:
Syria's Threatened Christians -
Muzaffar Salman/Associated Press
By DANIEL BRODE, ROGER FARHAT and DANIEL NISMAN June 28, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/opinion/syrias-threatened-christians.html?_r=1

Third you retreat to the alawite Mediterranean enclave protected by the coastal mountain range and now buffeted by the newly devastated Christian corridor of Aleppo on the north, south into Hamah and finally Homs:
Breakaway Alawite state may be Assad's last resort -
ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press – Jul 25, 2012
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ijD37M7unPD2gM2dOsyR-StjiI2Q?docId=489c33ac7dfb46d58f0c5b61130f9685

Fourth always have a way out.
Peace in our time: Russian naval force in the Mediterranean - J.E. Dyer
[ National Defense ] July 28, 2012
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/07/28/peace-in-our-time-russian-naval-force-in-the-mediterranean/


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