Syria's Rebels And Soldiers Agree: Military Strikes Will Change Nothing -- The Telegraph
Syria's rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's soldiers agree on next to nothing. They've killed each other by the tens of thousands in a war mired in stalemate. But they're now agreed on one thing. The military strike America is preparing will not change anything.
For the rebels, the attack will be too little, too late; a strike so long delayed that it will destroy only empty buildings and broken warplanes.
For the government and its troops, it would be a petulant volley of Western frustration, born of the lies America has told the world about Assad's responsibility for firing chemical weapons and of its determination to overthrow him.
The soldiers I meet on the front lines are defiant. "When they send their rockets we'll shoot them out of the sky," says one grizzled fighter, raising his battered Kalashnikov rifle in the air. When I ask them what weapons they have to take down the cruise missiles likely to be fired, they assure me they have secret weapons that will do the job.
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My Comment: I disagree with the argument that U.S. military strikes will change nothing. Gaddafi and his spokesmen said the same thing .... as did Saddam Hussein and his spokesmen. But bottom line .... if U.S. strikes are concentrated on key Syrian command and control centers and military installations .... and if they last for a few weeks .... they will have an impact.