If
any country, including the U.S., had armed terrorists embedded in
neighborhoods, and holding civilians hostage for years, and targeting
unarmed civilians constantly, it too would be using its own military
and security forces to fight the terrorists in order to liberate the
captive civilians.
by
Steven Sahiounie
Part
1
Juliette
Harkin, Associate Lecturer on Politics and International Relations at
Anglia Ruskin University, wrote an article dated May 1, 2018, titled:
“‘Assadism’ is destroying Syria – here’s where it came
from.”
Political
scientists from around the world have written on the subject of the
Syrian conflict, which began in March 2011 and is ongoing. In order
to understand the subject well, it is necessary to visit Syria, speak
to the people, and not depend on mainstream media to supply you with
the media-mantra chanted over and over again.
There is
a vast difference between reading a news article, and actually being
in Damascus, Aleppo and Homs during this period of conflict. As a
Syrian-American, my years of living in Syria have given me a
front-row seat to the tragedy, and allow me to see to the core of the
conflict.
Ruskin’s
article is based on the premise that President Bashar al-Assad is the
core problem, and Syria would be better off without him. However, he
is not the core problem.
The
beginning of the conflict was not about the president ordering a
brutal military crackdown on peaceful protesters. The fact that
dozens of Syrian security forces were killed in Deraa on the very
first night of ‘protests’ reveals the fact the protesters were
armed and willing to kill to advance their political aims. It was an
armed uprising from the first moment, and it was not grass-roots in
composition: it was the Libyan mercenaries in the employ of the CIA
who were in Deraa prior to the beginning of the ‘revolt,’ as they
stockpiled weapons in the Omri Mosque. Libyan mercenaries, armed with
weapons brought over the border at the Jordan-Deraa crossing, can
never be considered ‘grass-roots.’
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