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  1. 02-16-2017, 21:19 #1
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    Most recent Assad interview.

    Maybe I'm being too harsh, but I got the feeling that the interviewer couldn't handle Assad and wasn't properly responsive regarding crucial evasions and rhetorical sleights.

    As for Assad, his voice and accent remind me of someone...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    Most recent Assad interview.

    Maybe I'm being too harsh, but I got the feeling that the interviewer couldn't handle Assad and wasn't properly responsive regarding crucial evasions and rhetorical sleights.

    As for Assad, his voice and accent remind me of someone...
    Yeah, the interviewer wasn't good enough. Poor choice of questions didn't help.
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    What questions were permitted? What was the venue? What constraints in terms of time or content were placed on the journalist at the outset?

    If I go on "Hardball," Mathews can ask me almost anything and ridicule me if I don't answer. I doubt this journalist was in anything like such a position.


    Note Monty/Sarmation, that my comments do not undercut your qualitative assessments of the interview. I just put them out there as a reminder that many interviews have constraints that limit them from the outset.
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    Palmyra liberated!

    Great news, I don't think that they will be dumb enough to lose it for a third time. The V Corps regrouped by Russia and Iran marched over daesh quite easily. The first pics of the freed archaeological site:




    Who can recognize the patch in the soldier's shoulder?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crandar View Post

    Who can recognize the patch in the soldier's shoulder?
    "Novorossia" flag.
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    Or was it a rhetoric question?
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    It was a rhetoric question, but still congrats on recognizing it.
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    I thought he was either Scottish or a Confederate, but thanks for clearing that up.

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    I'm joking, but I really didn't know what flag it was.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Crandar View Post
    It was a rhetoric question, but still congrats on recognizing it.
    I've been observing this flag for close on three years now.

    Meanwhile Kurds yield what they have gained to Assad. To avoid an encounter with the Turks?
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39140880
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