Syria has long been dictatorship, but a secular one that refused to take part in the fundamentalist jihad. The Christian minority has been able to live and worship in peace, exactly as in the old Iraq. You would think that might endear it to the US and Israel, especially since they are pro-dictatorship in the Muslim world. Quite the reverse, of course, since empires foment chaos to facilitate control–divide et impera, as the Romans used to say. So every Muslim country in the region is to be wrecked. But, but, the Syrian government is using violence to resist the foreign-funded color revolutionaries who want to overthrow it. Now there’s something unique in world history.
Christian communities almost 2,000 years old have been destroyed in Iraq, and that will be their fate in Syria, too. As the opposition openly says, Christians are to be expelled and their property confiscated, and Alawites are to be massacred (the tiny Muslim sect that the Syrian rulers belong to). The empire is about to have even more blood on its hands, if there is room.
Need I add that there is quite enough injustice in the US to worry about, without intervening in another country? Of course, one reason the US does, is to distract Americans from the crimes, economic and otherwise, of the US state. Let me also note that, just as in the run-up to the aggression against Iraq, we cannot trust the pressure-group propaganda coming out of DC.
12:06 pm on August 18, 2011
