Crackdown?

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Bashir Assad, right now, must be biting his nails, pacing endlessly, asking himself: "is the whole thing coming apart?" Those Syrian troops and his hard-core supporter "head-knocker" elite units, the individual troops of which seem to be having second-thoughts about shooting down their own people. The hand-writing is on the wall and the name of Assad is noted prominently?As reported on the news this evening:

BUT - - not a wholesale mutiny - - not units fighting other units - - at least not yet. Cracks showing, a sign of a weakening resolve, the "head knockers" themselves having grave misgivings about their actions and what they are being required to do!

That "head knockers" are no longer willing to follow the dictates of an authoritarian and oppressive government is surely a sign that "things" are getting out of hand, the despot no longer in control of the situation! Fifty years [?] of rule by the Assad family is coming to an end?

"Activists: Syrian army units fighting each other over crackdown"

"A witness and human rights groups reported clashes between Syrian army units over the crackdown on anti-government protesters in the southern city of Daraa"

"individual Syrian soldiers who refused to fire on demonstrators were executed on the spot . . . some units pulling back from the fighting and siding with civilians . . . a few officers and soldiers, perhaps 20, have refused to shoot at civilians and defended them. Reports that whole section of the army have split up are incorrect"

Normally - - the two indications that a nation is coming apart, that a collapse is at hand are:

1. Elites begin to move their money and possessions out of the country.

2. The "central government" makes "liberal" and unprecedented use of the death penalty, far beyond normal. Lots of executions of the opposition, beyond the nor!

Add the unwillingness of the most elite and politically loyal military and police contingents to follow further orders, SHOOT-DOWN THEIR CITIZENS or outright rebellion!

This situation is unresolved and unstable. A collapse of the regime in Damascus will have profound ramifications the like of which cannot be predicted with even the slightest degree of certainty? If and when a total breakdown occurs, watch out!

coolbert.