By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported today that the death toll in Syria has topped 80,000.
That 80,000 number should not come as a surprise. The Observatory is a British based pro-rebel - anti regime group.
According to the report, half of those killed have been civilians.
Now the math gets important. Of the 40,000 non civilians killed almost all have been rebels. Take away 10% of that number and you have 4,000 regime soldiers killed in the conflict. That means that 36,000 rebel fighters have been killed.
That is, if the 40,000 number is correct. Whatever the exact number is, many more rebels have been killed than regime soldiers. And that continues to be the case. Intelligence sources say that several thousand foreign fighters cross the border into Syria every month replacing the several thousand that were killed.
To prove the point of The New York Times ran a picture of a Chinese rebel fighting against the regime.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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