Short Comment on Syria Is not Iraq.

10 Feb 201317 Jul 2017

OBSERVER, one of my favorite commenters on SC posted a link to an article in the Atlantic blog titled Syria is Not Iraq by Shadi Hamid. Observer asked for feedback…

Incoherence!

30 Jan 201317 Jul 2017

Coherence of thoughts is illusive. It lies behind the scenery of death, now so common as to fade into the background of long-threatened destruction that has become us.  The hearts…

Bashar Is bombing us.

11 Dec 201217 Jul 2017

I am not good at that. I mean, I don’t know how to collate news round-ups despite of  all helpful modern blogging tools  that make such task easier. May be…

Lost Pleasure and Other Ramblings (by SYRIAN HAMSTER)

26 Jul 201226 Jul 2012

I was told in argument on SC that it is no longer pleasurable to read my posts. As if I care,… this is not a competition for the most pleasant…

Of Interns and the Boy-king

18 Mar 201218 Mar 2012

 I have not posted over the past four weeks. In the meantime, the Assad’s army entered Homs, and then Idlib.  As FSA withdrew from both cities, massacres have taken place…

Olives, Ironies, and civil war

11 Jan 201220 Jan 2012

On Jan, 5, 2011, Subhi Hadidi, a journalist termed by many in the opposition, including myself, as a moral compass for being fiercely independent in his criticism of the Syrian…

Of Bombs and Fake web sites

25 Dec 201126 Dec 2011

I tend to agree with Maysaloon (the boy who cried wolf) , Robin Yassin Qassab (Now the Bombs) ,  and few others who were very rational in withholding judgement  about who was…

Keep your nationalism, Buzz-off mine, By SYRIAN HAMSTER

29 Nov 201120 Dec 2011

A Word from OFF THE WALL I have been having some exchanges with Syrian Hamster, we both have felt depressed over the past couple of days as we have been…

The “Half-men” respond to the Boy-king

12 Nov 201119 Nov 2011

In 2006, and during the Israeli war on Lebanon, Bashar Al-Assad, claiming leadership of the Arab resistance camp, and using the popularity of Hizbullah's struggle against Israel to burnish his…