3 thoughts on “The Alawi Massacres in Syria: A Blip or a Rubicon?”
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Where is Maher Assad? Is he healthy enough to move around, able to command the Alawite counter-rebellion?
(And by-the-way — the Umayyad Mosque, shown on the Blog home page, was arguably the first step in “erasing the signs”. The one thing I’d like to visit is Kurdish Saladin’s Mausoleum, which is just north of it.)
Theocratic Iran’s intent was always to establish a Shi’a Crescent encircling the hated Sunni south, and pointing toward Israel. Bashar’s regime and Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon were for that purpose. It’s a open question as to which Qom hates more: Sunnism or Judaism. (Fordow and the Jamkaran Mosque are aimed at Israel by bringing the return of the 12th Imam.)
The IRGC all but controls today’s Iran. Theological featherweight Khamenei got the Supreme Leadership by having gotten in tight with IRGC leaders during the Iran/Syria war.
If Maher’s in Iran, [a] who’s he ‘in-bed’ with, and [b] what’s their strategic mindset? If he’s close with the IRGC, could that be a large part of why the present Syrian establishment is playing things cautious? If that’s true, then [c] what’s the potential threat to Iraq, and [d] if so, then what might be Israel’s concerns? (Israel has worked with the northern Iraq Kurds in decades past.)
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Where is Maher Assad? Is he healthy enough to move around, able to command the Alawite counter-rebellion?
(And by-the-way — the Umayyad Mosque, shown on the Blog home page, was arguably the first step in “erasing the signs”. The one thing I’d like to visit is Kurdish Saladin’s Mausoleum, which is just north of it.)
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The rumour mill has it that Maher is in Iran … we don’t know, is the honest answer.
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Thanks for that, …. and “hmmmmmmmm”
Theocratic Iran’s intent was always to establish a Shi’a Crescent encircling the hated Sunni south, and pointing toward Israel. Bashar’s regime and Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon were for that purpose. It’s a open question as to which Qom hates more: Sunnism or Judaism. (Fordow and the Jamkaran Mosque are aimed at Israel by bringing the return of the 12th Imam.)
The IRGC all but controls today’s Iran. Theological featherweight Khamenei got the Supreme Leadership by having gotten in tight with IRGC leaders during the Iran/Syria war.
If Maher’s in Iran, [a] who’s he ‘in-bed’ with, and [b] what’s their strategic mindset? If he’s close with the IRGC, could that be a large part of why the present Syrian establishment is playing things cautious? If that’s true, then [c] what’s the potential threat to Iraq, and [d] if so, then what might be Israel’s concerns? (Israel has worked with the northern Iraq Kurds in decades past.)
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