Why is the West so silent on the recapture of Palmyra?

by **GoranZ** on Tue Mar 29, 2016 5:45 pm

Why is the West so silent on the recapture of Palmyra from the clutches of Isis?

Probably the answer lies in the end of the article...

Aren't the West supposed to be destroying Isis? Forget it. That's Putin's job. And Assad's.

During the operation for liberation of Palmyra the Russians lost an officer who was killed on intelligence mission.
Russian Hero Who Died Liberating Palmyra Is Dad-to-Be Alexander Prokhorenko

by **waauw** on Tue Mar 29, 2016 6:52 pm

The west has been pretty silent on Syria ever since Putin and Obama struck a deal.

by **jgordon1111** on Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:13 pm

waauw wrote:The west has been pretty silent on Syria ever since Putin and Obama struck a deal.

by **Dukasaur** on Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:19 pm

Congratulations on the recapture of Palmyra. A tough fight, from all accounts.

by **Keefie** on Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:57 pm

Quiet ?

It's been on the news a hell of a lot in the UK.

by **waauw** on Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:58 pm

Keefie wrote:Quiet ?

It's been on the news a hell of a lot in the UK.

He means politicians.

by **patches70** on Wed Mar 30, 2016 1:15 pm

It's quiet in the US because the debacle is too hard to face. CIA backed rebels have been fighting Pentagon backed rebels. Full Metal Retard is the best way to describe the US efforts in Syria...
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast ... story.html

by **GoranZ** on Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:44 pm

patches70 wrote:It's quiet in the US because the debacle is too hard to face. CIA backed rebels have been fighting Pentagon backed rebels. Full Metal Retard is the best way to describe the US efforts in Syria...
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast ... story.html

Pentagon played much better... CIA backed terrorists give the weapons to Al-Nusra Front(Al Qaeda group), so they are not part of the peace process, but they are still supplied by Turkey and the gulf states.

Dukasaur wrote:Congratulations on the recapture of Palmyra. A tough fight, from all accounts.

First part only, liberation, second one, rebuilding might take decades...
‘Pearl of the desert’: RT visits liberated ancient ruins of Palmyra

waauw wrote:
Keefie wrote:Quiet ?

It's been on the news a hell of a lot in the UK.

He means politicians.

I presume western politicians dont want to add any more weight to the Russian achievement on the Palmyra front, but they(especially French) could have done much more for the liberation. And that would have been the correct answer to the terrorists.

by **DoomYoshi** on Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:08 pm

I already recaptured Palymyra:

A grammarian lost his balance and fell off his donkey
and, it was said, lost the gift of grammar too.
From that day on he lived an ordinary life as a private man,
without understanding anything he once had taught.
But with Assad it was the exact opposite:
he knew little of our spoken language
and even less of grammar, but by riding Libyan donkeys
and repeatedly falling off them, he became a grammarian.