ANOTHER REAL BAD SIGN FOR ASSAD.
As I start this post tonight, there is news of yet another massacre
in Homs !
The finger pointing has already started, but the court of
public opinion will come down on Assad, rest assured.
Ok, back to my real discussion tonight.
The attached article speaks to an issue most of us have
agreed on would be a reliable sign Assad's support was in real trouble.
It's been known from the beginning the business class, Sunni,
members of the capital has been the
major factor in Assad holding on.
The idea of the people who have the most to lose, business
and trade, have feared what would come after Assad more than what Assad was doing.
Looking at pictures of virtually piles of dead children and
knowing you are backing the person who followers conducted this act, is more
than most of the " businessmen" can stand.
Fear still rules the day, but anger and a even greater fear
of Assad fall and being left behind labeled as a " supporter" is starting
to take it's toll on the real Middle Class of Syria.
Damned if you do and Damned if you don't... that's where
they stand and they know it.
As the article states, this closing of the stores is a major
challenge to Assad's power.
Kicking down the doors and forcing the stores to open, will
only help these fence sitters make up their minds.... Yep.. a real dumb move on
Assad's part.
If this second massacre is true, and it looks as if it is,
then these business class member of Syria may be pushed over the edge.
Russian and Iranian support is not going to make them open
their doors and be seen as supporters of a government that stacks children like
firewood.
