Henry Clay's Public House shared Greg Austin Band's photo. September 18 at 12:34pm Â·. Greg Austin Band. September 18 at 4:23am Â·.
Reminderâ¦Assad was democratically re-elected by a landslide in the midst of a war that began as an attempt to overthrow his regime & yet the opposition & their international backers denounced the election as a farce. Ironic how democracy is only considered legitimate if it benefits the aggressorsâ¦ (self.conspiracy)
He rejected suggestions that Assad is in league with Isis, which controls large parts of northern and eastern Syria as well as contiguous areas of Iraq. Assad's enemies accuse him of tolerating the group or tacitly cooperating with it to foment fighting between rival rebel units and present himself as a secular bulwark against al-Qaida and jihadi fanaticism.