Who, what, where, when, how, and most important, why?
In one instance, toward the end of this post, I’ve noted footage posted over the weekend but actually at least two month’s old.
The YouTube search strings were “Syria, combat, today” and “Syria, refugee crisis, today” and similar. Those yield the most recent uploads on the system, but, as suggested, not necessarily the most recent footage.
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I don’t know the posters of the above data — and it would be nice if they provided more information, not to give away their positions, but to fill in other puzzle pieces.
Whatever they — whoever — are doing Out There, the consequences of the military tit-for-tat may be other than these more notable, definite, predictable, and dispicable ends.
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Note the sectarian aspect in Lebanon as Hezbollah appears to be mobilizing and keeping Sunni and Shiite Muslims become a part of neutral humanitarian security concerns.
As noted in the previous post, some 3.4 million Syrians have been displaced by the civil.
It’s impossible, I think, to look at a MIG bombing run against a town or a rebel hit on a tank and feel any kind of hooray for one side or the other (although Maher al-Assad has probably made the best case for rebellion and revolution ever).
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Nick Paton Walsh’s piece showed up earlier on YouTube on March 6, 2013 . . . .
I haven’t the (uncompensated) energy to track each of these pieces back to their first appearance, and with the combat footage, only God knows who’s collecting and posting those recordings. Still, the principle holds: whatever the fighting may be doing for the Assad regime and for the rebels, whatever either imagine they are fighting for, what the civil war has produced is a civilian catastrophe beyond comprehension.
The numbers — those 3.4 million displaced — provide the barest frame to a story that for each displaced person has only begun.
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