No Time to Waste

Tharwa Editorial

Maashouq and Qassir – two assassinations in the span of a week. Someone out there is making it quite clear for one and all that there is no room for dialog or negotiations. Indeed, a war has obviously been declared against the voices of reason and moderation in the Region, one that is likely to have disastrous consequences for the immediate future.

For the voices of reason and moderation in this bedlam Region have always been too few, a determined effort to silence them in this manner could produce the “desired” results in a relatively short period of time, leaving the Region to be torn apart by the dark forces of ignorance, avarice and extremism.  Continue reading “No Time to Waste”

Some thoughts on a mundane Baath event

Special to The Daily Star

Syria has been abuzz with all sorts of nasty and hopeful rumors regarding the Baath Party congress that will begin today. Some predict that a virtual coup will take place as a result. Others, claiming to present a more sober assessment of the potential outcome, assert that only a few, albeit important, reform measures will be adopted. But these measures, they argue, are simply bound to pave the way for more critical developments in the years to come. “Years” being the operative word here.  Continue reading “Some thoughts on a mundane Baath event”

Who’s Next?

Hariri, Maashouq, Kassir, all killed… Who’s next? In what pit of hell are we exactly descending?

 

While we go on with our eons-long slumber, the dark forces of chaos (not-so creative after all) are wasting no time. Soon, we will have nothing to wake up to. Soon we will be killed while we sleep. Now that is not my idea of a quiet death.