#Mainstream_fairy_tales: #The_Good_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly #Western_mainstream_media claims that there are right now moderate and extremist rebel groups fighting against the Syrian government. The moderates in the understanding of the West are the militias of the so called “#Free_Syrian_Army” (#FSA), and the extremists are the militant Islamist groups with ties to Al-Qaida. Western leaders claim: “We have to strengthen the moderates with arms and supplies so that the extremists don´t gain more ground.” The German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel published on its website a reportage from the northern Syrian city of #Aleppo where the author of the article claims that the moderate rebels are doing now a better performance in battle thanks to the western arms delivery. https://ochsenreiter.squarespace/blog/2013/7/29/mainstream-fairy-tales-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly To distinguish between “good” and “bad” #rebels on the Syrian #battle_ground is an important element of the #Western_war propaganda. The #propagandists – Western politicians and mainstream media give the impression that it is possible to support moderate, #secular, #democratic, and #liberal_rebel_groups without supporting #extremists. The propagandists claim furthermore that the so called “good” rebels have aims other than the so called “bad” rebels. The #Syrian_reality has nothing to do with those fairy tales. The Islamist extremists are the dominating fighting groups among the rebels. “FSA” is just a type of brand name for some militias. The term “Army” is wrong since they don´t have an #army structure and hierarchy. Even the press releases of the different “FSA”-related groups contradict themselves because there is no such thing as #military_order...
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 05:12:31 +0000
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