When one is watching a magician it is always important to keep a close eye on what both his hands are doing. He will flourish one hand while clandestinely using the other to effect the trick, confident that you are busy looking the wrong way. Assad is attempting the same thing in Syria. Reuters reports that he quite publicly announced the end to a 48 year long emergency law (half a century, that is one heck of an emergency) while at the same time having his security thugs arrest Mahmoud Issa, a prominent anti-governemt activist and gunning down twenty or so people since the weekend. He apparently hasn't caught on to the whole electronic media thing and doesn't realize that things get reported as they are happening these days and can be broadcast across the globe from a single cellphone.
I am sure that The Resident and old Moonbat Pelosi (our wonderful burka-wearing ex-Speaker) will praise that "spread of freedom" while completely ignoring the slaughtered protesters. It is hard to spot the truth when you have an agenda stuck in your eye.
It really is too bad (particularly for the protesters) that Syria doesn't have at least a little bit of oil, then the UN/NATO would instantly authorize a "humanitarian relief operation".
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