SHOPS CLOSED…. ASSAD STARTING TO PROMOTE SECTARIAN VIOLENCE?
Two interesting and very important comments in the story need to be addressed.
- The concept of closing shops, businesses as a tactic to protest Assad’s government continues to grow.
I’m not sure most people understand the overall economic crisis the resistance has brought about in Syria
Every time people go to the streets in numbers talked about in this story, the business world comes to a grinding halt.
It doesn’t matter if your business is taking part or not.
When that many people rise up, everything is impacted.
Don’t lose site of the fact what town this sacked Mayor resided over.
Yep.. Oil is the issue here.
Placing a loyal Intelligence Officer in as the Mayor will not go over with the people there.
He will bring the ability and the willpower to kill more civilians and that is what Assad is banking on.
- For several months now it has not seemed logical Assad would support Secterian Violence and most of us really would have bet he was scared to death of the concept.
He knows it is one of the major triggers his business leaders as well as the UN have been worried about.
It has been seen as a sign he is losing control of the country.
It is understandable some of the groups would blame him for promoting the violence, but that doesn’t mean he had given the order for Sectarian based assaults.
Yes, using his ‘Homegrown Thugs’ could be interpreted as Sectarian Violence, but his concept there is more based on terrorizing a group into compliance, not promoting a larger Sectarian issue.
Here is the scary part.
Is Assad on the brink of actually supporting Sectarian Violence?
Could it be he is so convinced he is losing control of the country that he is contemplating a “ Scorched Earth / My way on No Way / plan?
It should be something that will have to be taken into consideration from here on out.
