January 16, 2013—SnyderTalk Editorial: What will Syria’s generals do when Bashar al-Assad meets his Maker?

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January 16, 2013

What will Syria’s generals do when Bashar al-Assad meets his Maker?

Despite his bravado, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad’s days are numbered, and he knows it.  The latest reports suggest that he’s living on a warship in the Mediterranean Sea and that he’s being protected by the Russians:

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family have been living on a warship located in the Mediterranean, with security provided by Russia, Saudi newspaper Al Watan has reported.

According to intelligence officials, the family and Assad’s aides live on the ship and Assad travels to Syria by helicopter to attend official meetings and receptions.

Assad has lost confidence in his own security detail and lands at secret locations inside Syria from where he is transported to the presidential palace under heavy guard, the sources said.

Assad’s presence on the warship suggests he has been granted political asylum by Russia but there has been no official comment from Moscow, Al Watan added.

According to Inyan Merkazi, Assad has given orders to his top generals to launch missiles against Israel and Egypt when he meets his demise:

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has ordered his military to launch ballistic missiles at Israel if he is killed, according to the Israeli online newspaper Inyan Merkazi.

The website reported that Assad met with his top generals recently to express concerns that he could be killed by advanced American missiles recently provided to rebel forces, or by a violent mob similar to the one that violently murdered Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Should either of those scenarios become reality, Assad reportedly told the generals to unleash Syria’s considerable missile arsenal on Israel and Egypt.

Assad’s behavior provides a glimpse into his psyche.  As Syria’s leader living in the lap of luxury and attended by throngs of adoring sycophants, he would never have been foolish enough to put his lifestyle at risk by attacking Israel, much less Egypt, but if he’s dead, he has nothing to lose.  That’s why he’s willing to expose his people to inevitable retaliatory attacks.

That was Adolf Hitler’s attitude in the closing days of World War II.  Holed up like a rat in his bunker beneath the streets of Berlin, the führer continued giving orders that would have needlessly extended the suffering of his own people who were enduring the wrath of advancing Russian and U.S. troops a few meters above him at ground level.  Fortunately for the German people, most of Hitler’s generals were fleeing for their lives.  They were too busy trying to find safe havens to pay any attention to the death wishes of a demonic mad man.

What will happen to the Syrian people?  I don’t know the answer to that question, but I do know this: now is the time for President Obama to send a message to Assad’s top generals.  He should tell them that if they attack Israel or Egypt, they will be hunted down like Saddam Hussein and his henchmen and brought to justice.  The president should close by saying that their fate is in their hands.

Will that stop the generals from following the orders of a tyrant who thinks that he’s about to die?  I don’t know, but it’s worth a try since Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu will not sit idly by while his people and his cities are being attacked.  My guess is that neither will Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi.

If Syria’s generals are courageous and if they love their country, they will implement their version of Operation Valkerie and try to take Assad out before he can do any more damage.  Will they?  Again, I don’t know, but if Assad can see the end, it’s safe to assume that his generals can see it, too.  They must realize that they will face tribunals when this saga ends.  The more they do to limit the carnage, the better off they will be when that day finally comes.  The destiny of Damascus and their own fates are in their hands.

This SnyderTalk editorial first appeared in American Thinker.

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Ezekiel 41: 15-20

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9--Jerusalem Post

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10--Arutz Sheva

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11--Israel Hayom

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‘Netanyahu will work with Obama while safeguarding Israel’s interests’

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12--Other News

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Facebook Removes Journalist for Posting Articles on Palestinian Corruption

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Report: Bashar al-Assad Living on a Warship in Mediterranean, Being Provided Security by Russia

Gaza Border Authorities Close Smuggling Tunnels After Week of Heavy Rains

The Secret Palestinians Don’t Want You To Know…

Palestinian Poll: To Build a State, 60 Percent Say Hamas’ Way Is Best

U.S. Judge Backs PA Bid to Conceal Memo Linking It to 2002 Israel Bombing

F-16 Deal Redefines U.S. Relationship with Egypt’s Morsi Administration 

U.S. Envoy Says Iran Working to Destabilize Yemen

Mali Islamists Vow to Strike “at Heart” of France

Al-Qaeda’s Dangerous Play in Mali

Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali

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Obama weighing executive action on guns

New York poised to pass major gun law — first since Newtown massacre

Debt Ceiling, Round 106

New York set to pass tighter gun laws

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13--Perspectives

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Noah Beck: Only the US Can Effectively End the Iranian Nuclear Threat—With Iran stubbornly spinning its nuclear centrifuges, despite nearly a decade of diplomatic efforts and sanctions, time is short to avoid another Middle East conflict that could spin disastrously out of control, leave many dead, and send oil prices skyrocketing…

Ron Agam: Mali is France’s Gaza—France is now going to war in Mali because it says “we cannot have a terrorist state at the door of Europe,” but when Israel launches a…

Ruthie Blum: A lesson in left-wing hypocrisy— By controlling the discourse, the Left is able to place politically motivated blame where it chooses.

P. David Hornik: A Review of David Solway’s The Boxthorn Tree—Some of the most eloquent and impassioned pro-Israeli essays in existence are to be found in “The Boxthorn Tree,” David Solway’s new collection. Solway — who somehow also manages to write erudite essays on a wide variety of other topics, as well as poetry — shows a masterful conversance with Israel’s history and current dilemmas, along with a sweeping command of the issues facing the Jewish people in general in a world that retains much of its age-old inimicality toward them.

Michael Armanious: Is Egypt the Next Sudan?— In celebration of Egypt’s new Islamic constitution, President Morsi went before the newly assembled upper house of the parliament – the Shura Council – and delivered another one of his enthusiastic and disconnected-from-reality speeches. In response to Egypt’s economic troubles and high unemployment, especially among the youth (over 30%), he reminded the Egyptians that “God is the Provider” and because they are true believers, one day they will have their God-given income.

Washington Post Editorial: Egypt’s Climate of Intimidation—The most important measure of Egypt’s Islamist government will be whether it preserves the democratic norms that allowed its own rise to power. In recent months at least half a dozen prominent editors, writers and cartoonists have been the targets of criminal investigations, many of them launched by a prosecutor appointed by Morsi following complaints from the president’s office. And the government has not hesitated to impose its agenda on state-run media, installing its own editors and yanking unsympathetic news hosts off the air.

Qanta Ahmed: Israel’s Jihad Is Mine— While Gaza and the Muslim Arab world continue to claim victory in the recent Israel-Hamas conflict, for the sane observers among us, there is only the defeat of morality in the desecration of a great religion. While most Muslims laud Hamas and scorn Israel, for me, an observing Muslim, Israel’s war against Hamas remains my struggle – my jihad.

Will Fulton: Iran’s IRGC Shows Its Hand in Syria—48 Iranians held captive by Syrian rebels since August arrived in Tehran on Jan. 9, after a prisoner exchange between rebels and the Assad government led to their release. Iranian media revealed the names of some of the hostages who hold active positions within the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) ground forces. We can now confirm that Iran has been deploying training teams to Syria. Tehran is actively assisting and mentoring Assad’s military in the suppression of its people.

Gallia Lindenstrauss: Renewed Negotiations between Turkey and the PKK: Hopes for a Breakthrough?— The reports of a resumption of negotiations between Turkey and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan represent one of the positive developments of early 2013. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is highly popular among his public, and one of the major expectations of him is that he will be able to achieve a solution to this painful issue, which has already caused the death of 40,000 people inTurkey, including 700 in 2012. While under Erdoğan Turkey has made unprecedented progress towards a solution, recently, however, and especially since the 2011 parliamentary elections, it appeared that the “Kurdish Opening” had come to a halt.

William Sullivan: How Many Bullets Are Enough?—”The right to keep and bear arms” is not limited to the purpose of fighting government tyranny, but necessary for the broader preservation of liberty.

Neal Boortz: Obama’s Disarm the Victim Movement— So now we’re learning that Barack Obama wants to make the sale of high capacity magazines illegal. How nice. Nice – and easy to expose as completely absurd. Let’s just use one occurrence to address the dream shared by Dear Ruler and liberals of eliminating these high-capacity magazines in rifles and handguns.

Cal Thomas: Control Politicians, Not Guns— If laws were enough to deter criminal behavior prisons would be empty. The latest effort to “control” guns in America is as likely to deter someone intent on breaking the law as outlawing lust would affect one’s libido. What’s in a heart can’t be controlled by restricting what’s in a hand.

Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris: 2013: The Year To Strike a Blow Against Climate Alarmism—For too long, scientists who promote the hypothesis that man’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing dangerous global warming have been given a free ride by politicians and the press. With the upcoming release of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, 2013 can be the year governments and media grow up on climate change.

W.A. Beatty: Global Warming? Yeah, Right!—It seems that the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) crowd do some picking and choosing of data in order to try to support their position(s). Why don’t we set the record straight?

Jack Kemp: Dueling Documentaries: FrackNation gives the counter-argument to the anti-fracking Gasland—It’s time to put a lid on all the baseless hysteria surrounding hydraulic fracturing. Phelim McAleer has taken a big step in the right direction.

Thomas Sowell: Liberalism Versus Blacks— There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? San Francisco is a classic example of a city unexcelled in its liberalism. But the black population of San Francisco today is less than half of what it was back in 1970, even though the city’s total population has grown.

Christopher Chantrill: Liberals: The Necessary Delusion—There are only five things wrong with liberal thought and politics: its cruelty, its corruption, its injustice, its waste, and its delusion.

Michael Brown: An Inauguration to Make Orwell Proud— It was bad enough for the White House to disinvite a pastor from praying at President Obama’s inauguration because he expressed orthodox Christian views in a sermon delivered almost 20 years ago. But to disinvite him in order to reflect “this administration’s vision of inclusion and acceptance for all Americans” is enough to make George Orwell proud. Talk about a classic example of doublespeak!

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14--Blessings from Revelation

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  • Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming.  Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days.  Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall.  Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace.  With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head.  Click here to order the eBook.  Click here to order the paperback.
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