Cooperating with Assad « Commentary Magazine.
It’s clear by now that the Obama Administration and other Western governments are slowly inching back towards a position that would re-legitimate the Assad regime. Forget about morality, when you are not willing to do what is right, that is supporting the pro-democracy activists and the moderate rebels, you will eventually do the wrong: doing business with Assad. Furthermore, doing wrong is often either more rewarding or less expensive.
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Whenever he needs them, Assad’s allies are there for him. Well, they are there for their interests really. But their interests dictate that he should stay. Judging from the kind of support, moderate rebels, and before them the nonviolent pro-democracy activsits have received from their “allies” rebels, we are forced to conclude that their interests also demand Assad’s survival, and probably even, the breakup of Syria. Well, the deed is done. Bravo. Now, we have another Middle Eastern Diaspora that we need to cater to. The early waves of “immigrants” from Syria assimilated all too well in their host countries, to the point where their origins no longer matter. The challenge will be to prevent such a development from taking place again, without falling too much into victory mentality and ghettoization. But, early signs indicate that we will fail in this challenge as well. No, Syrian refugees will not forget where they come from this time around, but most will live in ghettos, and rather than except, they might settle down all too comfortably in the role of victims. I want to be wrong in this prediction. I have to be wrong in this prediction.
It’s really strange how everything conspired from the very beginning to undermine moderates and support the rise of extremism among the protesters. Assad and his allies needed this, and they worked assiduously for it, but what did the others, Turkey, Saudi, Qatar, U.S., hope to achieve? What do they hope to achieve? Perhaps exactly what’s happening today. The “mistakes” that led to this are simply too numerous and consistent to be ascribed to chance. No, I am not endorsing some conspiracy, but the political agendas that crisscrossed the Syrian map have always been intricate and complex. There is always a bargain involved in supporting regime change in a country like Syria. In this case, there were simply too many of them. The opposition failure to understand this and to be more proactive about it helped pave the way as well to this worst of outcomes. And it’s far from over.
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And of course, in one’s fight against Aliens from Outer Space, everything is allowed, including supporting genocide. This would be laughable had it not been real. I wonder where the Sunnis would fit into this worldview? Are they supposed to be demons from the lowest depth of hell, demons that need to be fought and eradicated? Talk about Cosmic conspiracies. I wonder what Assad would say? He’ll probably believe it.
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