Quote Originally Posted by Tukhachevskii View Post
Rod Liddle, The Syria Delusion, The Spectator, 1st March 2012
OK lets look at this piece. This Ron Liddle person asked the following question:

What proportion of the Syrian population is fully in support of the continued uprising against the country’s authoritarian leader, Bashar al-Assad?
...then he pontificates for 930 words through which one must sift for what he sees as the answer to his question in 79 words:

...the Free Syrian Army has claimed that ‘50 per cent’ of the territory of Syria is no longer under government control. However, this 50 per cent does not seem to include any towns apart from Homs — just vast swaths of that reddish scrubland they have out there. On the other hand, the Syrian government’s referendum on a new constitution claimed a turnout of 57 per cent and a vote in favour of the constitution of almost 90 per cent.
Does Liddle answer his question?

Not close. Maybe he passed journalism school with junk like this but would not pass staff writing at any half decent army college.

If decisions are made based on crap like this little wonder so many policy decisions are a screw-up.