From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   - I don't know what their plans from the beginning of the war was, but   
   Syrian forces have been doing only retreating since the war began. If   
   their plan was (still may be) getting fighting forces of terrorists out   
   and away from Edlib, this was achieved days ago. But Syrian forces have   
   kept retreating, leaving every major city in the hands of the terrorists.   
      
      
      
   - Ok, now it's clear what's going on. Syrians cannot defend themselves.   
   They officially asked Iran today to "immediately" intervene militarily.   
   They want Iranians and Russians do the fighting for them. They have made   
   four official requests at different times today.   
      
   Hmm..   
      
   This situation reminds me of something that now I know is a key fact. It   
   is from a few years back when Soleymani was conducting the war against   
   ISIS in Syria. He had reported back to Iran's militia, "Syrian army is   
   useless. Give me one brigade of Basij forces and I clear the entire   
   Syria from ISIS with it."   
      
   That now rings an ominous bell. Cause another "Soleymani" may just not   
   be there for Syria. They may have to own their problems and solve them.   
      
   Even Russia asked Iran today to use military forces in Syria. Give the   
   work to a bunch of tribes and you cannot expect anything better than   
   that. I can't believe that in more than four years Assad did nothing   
   about correcting these tribal structures. At this point I don't know   
   what he was thinking, and what he was waiting for!...   
      
   It is realities like this, which entices USA, Israel, and even Turkey,   
   let alone Wahhabis, to take advantage of the situation of these backward   
   people who cannot learn and think outside their tribes' concerns fast   
   enough to defend their country. Like Israelis, who're tribal to their   
   bones themselves, Syria needs other nations to survive as a "country."   
      
      
   - We won't know Iran's decision till tomorrow when Araghchi meets Assad   
   in Syria. What a joke of a situation.. They can't resist terrorists at   
   least a few days to give time for Russian and Iranian help to arrive!   
   They all have retreated instead of fighting. If their soldiers think   
   their lives are better than their Syria, they're no soldiers. And for   
   same reasons eventually get killed by terrorists.   
      
      
   - There's a rumor of military coup in Syria. Many sleeper cells have   
   begun anti-government activities in various cities close to Syria's   
   capital. They think with the rapid southward movement of the terrorists   
   they'll get there sometime soon.   
      
      
   - Ok, time to step back and see the big picture. It is not actually the   
   Syrain Army that's at fault. It is the Syrian people. When war gets   
   close to their cities, just like Israelis they pack and leave the city.   
   In Iran, in the 8 year war with Iraq, Saddam many times defeated the   
   military forces of Iran but could not defeat the _people_ of Iran.   
   People didn't pack and leave as if they'd been on vaccation all these   
   years in a foreign land and now they should go elsewhere. They stayed   
   and requested arms and ammo and explosives of all sorts from the   
   military and they _defended_ their cities. That's how years of effort by   
   Saddam and the entire world could not result any success for those   
   bastards.   
      
   The people in Syria (and Israel) don't have it in themsleves to fight   
   for their cities. They're not true citizens. They're good times people.   
   Times get bad and these rats leave their lands for the enemy.   
      
   I think this is what's been happening in Syria.   
      
   Every Iranian has had a two-year mandatory military training under his   
   belt for the past 120 years! We created it as soon as superpowers   
   appeared. At war time, these ordinary people become soldiers, not   
   tourists who'd of course quickly go elsewhere. I can't believe Assad had   
   not prepared for this in that sensitive area. Shah of Iran may have been   
   currupt to his bones but he never, ever, allowed men to bypass mandatory   
   military service. Most mornings, he'd wake up at 2 am in the morning and   
   secretly flew to some godforsaken military base across Iran to be there   
   at 5 am sharp ready to observe military's routine morning exercises by   
   his own eyes and in his own presence.   
      
   My friends in the military would tell me they never were certain next   
   morning Shah himself would not be in their base. Even their top   
   commanders didn't know that. In this way Shah made sure _every_ military   
   training grounds in Iran is doing what they were supposed to do as if   
   next day Shah will be right there standing and watching!   
      
   Result was that even after his downfall, the entire world could not   
   defeat Iranians. Your lovely USA could not do it! Soviet bastards who   
   hated the Clergy regime could not do it no matter how much they helped   
   Saddam. West Germany who even supplied much of chemical weapons to   
   Saddam could not do it.   
      
      
   Did Assad do any of this for his country? Did he at least do as much as   
   Shah did? Evidently not! Now he wants Iran fight the war for him.   
      
      
   - Russian top commander in charge of Syrian operations has just been   
   fired. So he did nothing either while he was there. Must've received the   
   funds and shoved them up his cro-magnon ass and nose.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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