Heartbreak of a Nation
It is really all too sad. This noble man, so dreadfully beleaguered with a handful of friends and supporters in the world, has to plead for his cause in the most demeaning and humiliating of venues; the very broadcaster that represents the political ideology and interests of Great Britain. When it is Britain itself that presents as one of the great problems that Bashar al-Assad must deal with.
This is truly insupportable. The level of hypocrisy that President Assad must deal with would infuriate the most patient of people, but he is calm and reasoned and capable of explaining the situation from his perspective to enable him to reach the sympathies of listeners wherever they happen to live. This is clearly a man devoted to his country and his people.
"The British government wants to send military aid to moderate groups in Syria, knowing all too well that such moderate groups do not exist in Syria; we all know that we are now fighting Al-Qaeda or Jabhat al-Nusra which is an offshoot of Al-Qaeda, and other groups of people indoctrinated with extreme ideologies. This is beyond hypocritical! What is beyond hypocrisy is when you talk about freedom of expression and ban Syrian TV channels from the European broadcasting satellites; when you shed tears for somebody killed in Syria by terrorist acts while preventing the Security Council from issuing a statement denouncing the suicide bombing that happened last week in Damascus, and you were here, where three hundred Syrians were either killed or injured, including women and children – all of them were civilians. Beyond hypocrisy when you preach about human rights and you go into Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and kill hundreds of thousands in illegal wars. Beyond hypocrisy is when you talk about democracy and your closest allies are the worst autocratic regimes in the world that belong to the medieval centuries. This is hypocrisy!"How fortunate we are that a man of his impeccable reasoning is capable of enunciating his opinion and deciphering the true issues; unquestionably Britain is guilty as charged. Yet British Foreign Secretary William Hague disrespectfully disagrees, succumbing to an undiplomatic rudeness that characterizes Syria's embattled president as "delusional", as "presiding over this slaughter", as a dictator.
On the other hand, much of what Bashar al-Assad claims does have truth to it. A self-serving truth, clear to anyone who keeps abreast of the trainwreck that is Syria. On the one hand, the terrorist entity that is the Islamic Republic of Iran and its Quds division of the Republican Guard, along with its creature militia Hezbollah are operating in tandem with the Alawite regime's military to retain possession of as much of Syria as possible, damn the corpses left behind.
On the other hand, it is also true that Prime Minister David Cameron's government is "naive, confused, unrealistic" in seeking to aid "terrorists", for terrorists of the Sunni stripe are certainly there represented by Islamists flooding in to aid the Sunni Syrian protests. Jabhat al-Nusra is a well-armed and well-practised killing machine; perhaps an equal match for Shia-led Hezbollah. And this is Islam at its very finest.
The troubling conundrum that assails the West as it observes Arab Muslims slaughtering one another with grim abandon is the plight of the civilian populations, families desperate to escape the slaughter they have no will nor wish to be involved with. And it is this issue that troubles outsiders; how to react to help diminish the growing numbers of men, women and children being sacrificed to sectarian hatred and tyranny?
The traditional "bullying and hegemonic" Britain has decided, along with the United States, to offer the kind of assistance that the Syrian opposition views with disdain; food, medicine, shelter. At a time when the opposition and the Syrian Free Army demands advanced weaponry to place them on an even footing with the well-armed Syrian military so skilled at helicopter gunships and artillery firing on civilian enclaves; funerals, bread lines.
"How can we ask Britain to play a role while it is determined to militarize the problem? How can we expect them to make the violence less while they want to send military supplies to the terrorists?" implores poor misunderstood President al-Assad.
Labels: Britain, Chaos, Communication, Conflict, Islamism, Revolution, Societal Failures, Syria
posted by Pieface @ Monday, March 04, 2013
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