Syrian
government forces today [6/12] made dramatic gains in retaking the
last major population center still in rebel hands, eastern Aleppo.
First the Syrian army retook several neighborhoods on the eastern
side of the divided city, and then late in the day they re-took the
old city on the northwestern side of eastern Aleppo.
Though the
BBC spin on the victory of Syrian government troops over mostly
al-Qaeda forces in Aleppo is predictably biased toward the rebels,
even that British government mouthpiece reported on the residents of
Aleppo finally returning to their homes now that the jihadists have
been routed. According to some reports, more than a thousand Aleppo
residents have returned to their homes.
The rebels
are confined to less than 15 percent of the territory they once
controlled in Aleppo and although some have claimed they will fight
to the finish, hundreds have already accepted -- or are negotiating
for -- either amnesty or resettlement offers by the Syrian
government.
Yesterday,
Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution
calling for a ceasefire in Aleppo.
After more
than five years of US and western regime change policy for Syria, the
country is in ruins. The regime change has not succeeded, but the
destruction is near total. Will Washington learn from the
interventionist disasters in Iraq, Libya, Syria and elsewhere? Will
the Beltway interventionists ever apologize for the death and
destruction the policies they advocate have wrought?
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