Assad: Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerate​d...............................from Dan Friedman

[Many notables have predicted that Assad would be gone by now, but one of those seers sticks out in my mind. That honor belongs to Israel’s Ehud Barak, the most overrated idiot the country has produced since Shimon Peres. Read Barak: Assad will be toppled within weeks, and then read the story below from the Washington Post. df]

 

 

WaPo, 5/11/13

 

Assad forces gaining ground in Syria

 

 

BEIRUT — Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are beginning to turn the tide of the country’s war, bolstered by a new strategy, the support of Iran and Russia and the assistance of fighters with Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement.