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Fighting Foreign Intervention

Take your pick, the regime's story or that of the opposition in Syria:

"The international community should take the right position ... They should fully isolate this regime, pull out their ambassadors and expel the regime's ambassadors." Mohammad Shaqfa, Syria's Muslim Brotherhood.

"The country is capable of overcoming the current conditions and building a strong Syria." President Bashar al-Assad, addressing a delegation of the Arab People's Initiative for Fighting Foreign Intervention in Syria.

As for the Arab League, they're slightly nonplussed. Their brotherly advice to one of their own has been casually set aside, albeit with promises, signed and delivered, to respect their recommendations, to free protesters from prison, to withdraw tanks from city centres, to stop slaughtering the protesters.

With the Arab League-sponsored monitoring agents present in Syria, witnessing the actual and ongoing onslaught against Syrians and reporting back, the League is set to meet, and to ponder their next step. Of course the report from Mohammed al-Dabi, may deliver some relief for them, since he has a tendency to paint matters in the most positive of terms.

Where some of the monitors have left in aghast disgust at what they've witnessed, condemning the Syrian regime outright, and complaining that the Arab League monitoring mission is merely a cover-up for the regime, Mr. al-Dabi simply sees no evil and will report no evil. Just a regime attempting to secure peace. Sympathy required.

Much as Sudan itself conducted itself in its disagreements with the south, now an entirely other country and still the north and the south have their 'differences'; religious, ethnic, political tribal. And just as troublesome Darfur was pacified by Sudanese troops and Janjaweed, so too does Syria's Alawite ruler have a right to pacify his unruly Sunni subjects.

They, and the Islamists among them, the al-Qaeda sympathizers, the sinister foreign elements, the interfering Mossad agents, will be and must be defeated for the greater good and the glory of Syria. The armed insurgency will not be tolerated. They will be vanquished and peace and good governance will return to the country.

The Arab League and the world at large has heard it on the best authority; President Bashar al-Assad. There is no bloody struggle, nor is there any reason whatever for foreign intervention, and he will not have such interference in the sovereign affairs of his state.

What civil war?

Labels: Conflict, Societal Failures, Syria

posted by Pieface @ Friday, January 20, 2012