Syria Army Morale In Long Decline Since Soldiers, Unable To Shoot At Israeli Towns, Must Shoot Fellow Syrians

“We can’t even do that job by ourselves. We need Russian air power just to kill our own.”

Damascus, March 29 – Veterans and observers of Baser Assad’s forces have noticed a steady diminishment in the motivation of those forces over the decades, as the bravado of “we will push the Jews into the sea” in 1948 gave way to artillery and sniper attacks on Galilean kibbutzim and villages, which in turn, through territorial losses, left the Alawite-led country with no choice but to direct its fire not on the no-longer-in-range Zionists, but its own citizens.

Syria Arab Army commanders and aged retirees from the institution contrast the current degraded state of the organization’s equipment, supplies, combat-readiness, logistical capacity, firepower, manpower, and other crucial measures of military robustness, ever since the humiliating failure, following the establishment of the State of Israel, to defeat the bedraggled defenders of the Zionist Entity and to perpetrate a genocide of Jews that Arab leaders predicted would result form such a conflict. In the more than seven decades since that humiliating debacle, the SAA, with the exception of a handful of momentary flashes of potential anti-Zionist achievement, has gone from a potent fighting force that the IDF must view as a serious adversary to a joke of an army that cannot even defeat poorly-trained guerrillas in its own territory without Russian air support and Iranian logistical and financial support.

“We used to be somebody,” lamented Farouk Aziz, who served during the decades-long Syrian occupation of Lebanon, which ended more than fifteen years ago. “We were second only to Egypt on the list of whom the Zionists most feared, militarily. Even after the shortcomings of 1948, we could still put up a fight. It’s just that in 1967 we couldn’t even hold onto the Golan Heights, the whole point of which was its strategic position, in part because our political and military leadership has always been corrupt and stupid. We gave them a good scare in ’73 for sure, but even then they kicked our butts back to Damascus.”

“By the time ’82 rolled around,” he reminisced, “we were a shadow of our former selves. Destroyed a few tanks, captured some soldiers, but failed to take any territory, and have only weakened since then. It’s no wonder we have to expend our ammunition on fellow Arabs. Until ’05 it was Lebanese, but now we can’t even hit them, either. It’s a shame, is what it is.”

“To make matters worse,” added his army buddy Tarek Abbas, “we can’t even do that job by ourselves. We need Russian air power, Iranian supplies, and Hezbollah personnel just to kill our own.”

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