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(Frontline) Video Female reporter risks her life to report on conditions inside the uprising in Syria. The revolution will be televised   (pbs.org) divider line 27
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2011-11-13 05:59:55 PM
good luck, brave Syrians
 
2011-11-13 06:10:12 PM
Video doesn't load.
 
2011-11-13 06:34:43 PM
boochini: Video doesn't load.

Works fine for me. Check your Adobe Flash Player version. Might need to update.
 
2011-11-13 06:44:33 PM
+1 for the Gil Scott-Heron reference: Link (new window)
 
2011-11-13 06:49:32 PM
Sad that a revolution in Syria gets better coverage than an uprising here.
 
2011-11-13 06:50:15 PM
Scary stuff. Those are very brave people.
 
2011-11-13 06:50:46 PM
Why is the gender of the reporter important?
 
2011-11-13 07:04:36 PM
Hey, when the cops tell you to clear out, you clear out. Good luck Syrian military.

/Am I doing this right?
 
2011-11-13 07:44:54 PM
GAT_00: Sad that a revolution in Syria gets better coverage than an uprising here.

Probably because there isn't an uprising here. When cops, lawyers and politicians start getting shot regularly, then it will be an uprising.
 
2011-11-13 08:05:27 PM
quansem: Why is the gender of the reporter important?

Because FARK YOU that's why.
 
2011-11-13 08:53:52 PM
Wow. Those guys are serious scum. I knew the Syrian gov't was a bunch of dicks but I found that to be pretty surprising, even by petty dictator standards.
 
2011-11-13 08:58:59 PM
Also, if what these defecting soldiers are saying is true, Bashar's days are numbered. If the only way you can get your soldiers to follow orders is to have other soldiers standing behind them, ready to kill them for failing to obey, then your control of your own army is non-existent.
 
2011-11-13 08:59:30 PM
1) When can we help them?

2) Why was Saddam OK, but Qaddafi a bad guy when Saddam killed WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more people? Because Bush?

chaoswolf: GAT_00: Sad that a revolution in Syria gets better coverage than an uprising here.

Probably because there isn't an uprising here. When cops, lawyers and politicians start getting shot regularly, then it will be an uprising.


quansem: Why is the gender of the reporter important?

Because women are special. Brown people are also special.
 
2011-11-13 09:03:05 PM
apeiron242: 1) When can we help them?

2) Why was Saddam OK, but Qaddafi a bad guy when Saddam killed WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more people? Because Bush?

chaoswolf: GAT_00: Sad that a revolution in Syria gets better coverage than an uprising here.

Probably because there isn't an uprising here. When cops, lawyers and politicians start getting shot regularly, then it will be an uprising.

quansem: Why is the gender of the reporter important?

Because women are special. Brown people are also special.


So only some citizens count, depending on their occupation? If an engineer, student, professor, doctor, janitor, or fireman gets shot or if our own soldiers get beat up it's NOT an uprising? Congratulations, you're a retard.
 
2011-11-13 09:34:43 PM
Risks her life? That's unpossible. The religion of peace respects women.
 
2011-11-13 09:34:50 PM
GAT_00: Sad that a revolution in Syria gets better coverage than an uprising here.

Care to go into a little detail of what you mean?

Watched this last week. Pretty interesting but the truth is that these countries stand a very good chance of falling under theorcratic Islamic rule and THAT, folks, isn't what democracy or a representative republic looks like.

It always gets a rueful laugh from me when I hear the Lefties being afraid that America will fall under fundamentalist rule because they never complain when it actually happens in the Mid-East.
 
2011-11-13 09:41:11 PM
HMS_Blinkin: So only some citizens count, depending on their occupation? If an engineer, student, professor, doctor, janitor, or fireman gets shot or if our own soldiers get beat up it's NOT an uprising? Congratulations, you're a retard.

Regular citizens getting killed by cops is normal behavior for a fascist state. It isn't until regular citizens start fighting back that it becomes uprising. Thus the terms up and rising. Instead of down and trodden.
 
2011-11-13 09:44:49 PM
quansem: Why is the gender of the reporter important?

Because there are many countries in the world where a woman reporter is at especially high risk of being assaulted/raped/abused? It requires either guts or stupidity for a woman to report outside major visibility areas in the middle east.
 
2011-11-13 10:02:05 PM
gaspode: quansem: Why is the gender of the reporter important?

Because there are many countries in the world where a woman reporter is at especially high risk of being assaulted/raped/abused? It requires either guts or stupidity for a woman to report outside major visibility areas in the middle east.


Like Lara Logan from CBS. Not saying she was stupid for going there.
 
2011-11-13 10:53:36 PM
Spot on, she always is.

www.fourteeng.net
 
2011-11-14 12:37:33 AM
quansem: Why is the gender of the reporter important?

Becuase they tend to get all rapey when a female shows a lack of submissiveness out in that part of the world.

And before anyone goes all "religion of peace", that is a not a muslim religious tennant anymore than pedophilia is a Catholic tennant.
 
2011-11-14 12:40:49 AM
skinink: Lara Logan

Thanks!

http://images.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1121&bi h= 838&q=%22lara+logan%22&gbv=2&oq=%22lara+logan%22&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql= &gs_ sm=e&gs_upl=344l1881l0l2163l12l10l0l0l0l0l222l1619l1.6.3l10l0 -->

first 4 pages look alright (SFW) even though I never use safesearch...

/lets hope she has some journalistic integri... nevermind she works for CBS...csb
 
2011-11-14 03:09:02 AM
urban.derelict: quansem: Why is the gender of the reporter important?

Because FARK YOU that's why.


I see.

/problem?
 
2011-11-14 06:35:40 AM
Frontline is the best show on TV. IMHO.

/just thought I'd point this out.
 
2011-11-14 09:43:02 AM
This is what I first thought of...
www.yorapper.com
 
2011-11-14 10:44:44 AM
apeiron242: 1) When can we help them?

2) Why was Saddam OK, but Qaddafi a bad guy when Saddam killed WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more people? Because Bush?


1) We're already helping them attack their government in soft ways like sanctions, which are often accused of lacking teeth but considering how much money they make off of Europe in exports they do take their toll. It's unlikely that you'll see us attack them directly since they're so close to Israel and so likely to spark a regional war. There's also a good chance that US money is funding the uprisings in Syria right now but that's obviously not something you admit if you don't want to de-legitimize the movement.

2) I can't think of any serious person of any political stripe who thought Saddam was "okay". Everyone knew he was a horrible dictator, but that doesn't mean you engage in a destabilizing war to oust him. The war in Iraq distracted us from Afghanistan, empowered Iran's regional influence, caused a sectarian civil war, the deaths of over 100,000 civilians and soured many Iraqi's view of America.

As we've seen from the Arab spring, concerted diplomatic and clandestine anti-government efforts can help create an environment where the people oust their own repressive regimes. Once the people's rebellion is in full swing then limited military measures proved effective in Libya, but military should always be a last resort.
 
2011-11-15 02:33:06 AM
dehehn: apeiron242: 1) When can we help them?

2) Why was Saddam OK, but Qaddafi a bad guy when Saddam killed WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more people? Because Bush?


1) We're already helping them attack their government in soft ways like sanctions, which are often accused of lacking teeth but considering how much money they make off of Europe in exports they do take their toll. It's unlikely that you'll see us attack them directly since they're so close to Israel and so likely to spark a regional war. There's also a good chance that US money is funding the uprisings in Syria right now but that's obviously not something you admit if you don't want to de-legitimize the movement.

2) I can't think of any serious person of any political stripe who thought Saddam was "okay". Everyone knew he was a horrible dictator, but that doesn't mean you engage in a destabilizing war to oust him. The war in Iraq distracted us from Afghanistan, empowered Iran's regional influence, caused a sectarian civil war, the deaths of over 100,000 civilians and soured many Iraqi's view of America.

As we've seen from the Arab spring, concerted diplomatic and clandestine anti-government efforts can help create an environment where the people oust their own repressive regimes. Once the people's rebellion is in full swing then limited military measures proved effective in Libya, but military should always be a last resort.




The short answer was timing. It was simply a bad time to go into Iraq, it could of happened 5-10 years later with international support. Afghanistan had not resolved it self and as a result of Iraq it has still not resolved itself.


Point is timing is important. You don't walk up to a girl who is way out of your league right when she shows up, you wait till she has had a few drinks, until you can safely slip her a roofi...you know what I should probably just go now.
 
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