The Irish journalist recalled UN Secretary-General's, Ban Ki-moon, last week statement in which he confirmed that "nobody is discussing military operations," reiterating that "the "Free Syrian Army" has been driven out of strongholds in the central city of Homs, Idlib province in the north and, most recently, Deir el-Zour, in the east."
"Their retreat may make it more difficult to bring guns across the Iraq border from the overwhelmingly Sunni Anbar province," he added.
In an answer to the raised question on wrong al-Assad opponent's bets, "what went wrong for the advocates of regime change?" Cockburn answered "in general, they overplayed their hand and believed too much of their own propaganda."
"The experience of the US, EU, Nato and the Arab Gulf states in overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi turned out to be misleading when it came to Syria," he confirmed.
The "Independent's" report also mentioned that "conditions are very different in Syria...The regime has a radicalized core based on the Alawite community, a powerful army and security forces."
"The Syrian regime will not fall without a radical change in the balance of forces," Cockburn highlighted pointing out that "the appointment of the former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan as an UN-Arab League peace envoy is a face-saver to mask the failure so far of the regime's opponents."
Source: The Independent, Edited by moqawama.org
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