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"We don't know for sure yet"But one thing that stands out quite clearly, and which is very important, is that the methodology, this type of killing - of beheadings, of slitting of throats, slitting of throats of children, too, and of this mutilation of bodies - has been a characteristic, not of Levantine Islam, not of Syria, not of Lebanon, but really of what happened in the Anbar province of Iraq.""....what we're looking at here is a deliberate and cold-blooded attempt to cast Syria into civil war, to initiate civil war, to bring Western intervention, if possible. But simply, again, to bring down the regime."
"And it is clearly, I think, perpetrated in the interests of those external parties and groups at the end of the spectrum of the opposition, which are jihadi groups, who want no part in the peace process but who want to bring down the system and for Syria to turn into civil war."
Daily Mail contributor John Bradley said:
"The expressions of outrage over Houla and the consequent threats of military action all feed into the conventional Western narrative of the Syrian crisis whereby Assad is portrayed as a bloodthirsty tyrant and the rebels as heroic freedom-fighters trying to liberate the Syrian people from oppression."
"It is a picture that has been sedulously cultivated by the anti-Assad opposition, who are masters of manipulative propaganda aimed at gullible Western politicians, broadcasters and protest groups."
"But the truth about the violence in Syria is far more complex than Assad's enemies would have us believe."
Unfortunately, a tsunami of media deception and lies drowns out these type thoughtful commentaries. Massacres, false flags, drumbeat propaganda, and other ways are used to launch imperial wars. Preventing them is daunting.
America's 2010 US Military Special Forces Unconventional Warfare (UW) Manual states:
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