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“The armed insurgency against the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has become more organized in recent weeks, with defectors launching attacks that have become bolder and in some cases more sophisticated, according to activists and residents inside the country and in exile. The latest attack took place on Thursday at dawn, when military defectors killed at least 27 soldiers, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in one of the largest attacks yet on troops loyal to the government. The observatory, which is based in London and has a network of informants inside Syria, said in a statement that clashes erupted in and around the city of Dara’a, where the antigovernment uprising began in March. It said the attackers, armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, hit two checkpoints in the countryside and a military base inside the city, suggesting a level of coordination that had not been seen there before………”

The number of government soldiers killed each day now is approaching the number of the ‘opposition’ or ‘protesters’ killed each day. That is a sure sign of a transformation of the Syrian uprising into a civil war. It seems to be heading that way.
Surely Mr. Assad should make an iron-clad deal to get the hell out of the place: he and his family and his Ba’ath Party have looted enough of the country. He can settle in some other place: UAE or Iran or Europe, with some guarantees of not being prosecuted. After all, most Arab leaders currently in power should be prosecuted, and nobody is prosecuting them. I don’t particularly like most of the forces that could replace the secular Ba’ath, but history will have to run its course.
Cheers
mhg


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