Syria Called Eager to Be Rid of Chemical Arms – NYTimes.com.
But of course, the Assads have always been eager to please… the United States and the international community. In exchange, they only demand the right to repress and massacre their own people. Is that too much to ask? Judging by current global reactions, it doesn’t seem to be. Meanwhile, international officials press on with their campaign to rehabilitate the Assad regime, even as it remains committed to its genocidal venture.
The Massacre in Syria That Wasn’t | The Interpreter.
Muddying the waters was the Assad regime tactic of choice from the very onset of the revolution, a trick Assad’s security apparatuses learned from their KGB and Stazi mentors. So, they lied from the beginning, they spoke about infiltrators and terrorists in order to justify their uber-violent crackdown that soon mushroomed into a full-fledged genocide. At first, only those segments of Syrian society already predisposed to fearing change, that is, the country’s confessional minorities and certain segments of the Sunni community that have long thrown their lot with the Assad regime, were willing to embrace the “salvific” lies.
Syria’s Assad: Still the wrong choice – latimes.com.
It’s absolutely shameful that we still have to make this argument, that Assad is the wrong choice, even now, even after so much death and mayhem. How can a genocidal maniac ever be the right choice? Look no further than Ambassador Ryan Crocker who keeps making this argument to his dying shame. People like him whose voices were silent when Assad started his genocide now speak loud and clear, their realism offers nothing by way of preventing genocide but is good at accommodating a fait accomplit. People like him are not just the Devil’s advocates, they are his enablers, for all their good intentions.
The end of human rights – The Washington Post.
Indeed, the psychological contract that has evolved at some point in regard to human rights and the necessity of moving continuously forward on this matter has collapsed. We are moving into a very dark epoch in our collective history, and judging by the caliber of available leaders around the world, it’s bound to be a long one.
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 