Increasing Barbarity: Gaining a Clearer View of the Syrian Civil War

[sysop]

After spending months reporting on the conflict, a SPIEGEL journalist has pieced together a realistic view of the situation on the ground, and reports that dictator Bashar Assad's fall seems inevitable. But as the fighting grows more barbarous on both sides, he worries what the ultimate price will be.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-874027.html

[i9natz]

this article gives no clear view of Syria. In fact it adds to the general european and american political agenda. This journalist as the many who report the the western press find very easy to demonize regimes like in Syria and Lybia, but are unable to criticise the mayor regimes who kill thousands and perhaps millions of civilians, women and children: U.S., Britain, France, and yes Germany. They never dare to criticise the big ones who are obviously the reposible of bombarding Afganistan, Irak, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Lybia and now Syria. These journalists as well as the western media never accuse Bush or Obama and their NATO allies of the atrocities commited by their soldiers in these countries, the genocidal bombardement of Fallujah with depleted or rich plutonium weapons, Guantanamos and Abu Ghraibs. I would hope the Spiegel would be less a tool of the U.S./NATO criminal country occupying agenda that seeks only a geopolitical and strtegic presence regardless of human rights.

[SetarehSabety]

The article misses the point of Amir Madani's very thorough article on Huffington Post <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amir-madani/syria-a-tragedy-in-search_b_2082164.html> . It quotes not him but a Washington Post article that he quoted in his original article <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-syria-group-suspected-of-al-qaeda-links-gaining-prominence-in-war-to-topple-assad/2012/08/19/c7cffd66-ea22-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_story_1.> DW should make sure that if it is going to use a source it should properly quote and site it.