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It didn’t take long for Syria’s and Russia’s concern trolls to give props to the dictator right in this thread. Thanks TonyInOhio.

I suspect for most people, it's not about Syria or Russia. During WWII, the West actively rooted for the Soviets not because they were these great humanitarians, but because they were cutting Hitler down to size. If the Soviets had played the role of aggressor instead of the Germans, we'd have been rooting for Nazi Germany.

In the post Cold War-era, Sunni Arabs have been the largest killers of Americans in the world. As far as I'm concerned, it would be no great loss to the planet if they were teleported to Andromeda.

The reflexive sympathy in the media for Sunni Arabs is nauseating. They have engineered large scale massacres of ethnic and religious minorities, including Christians, for over a thousand years. What I don't understand is this sudden show of concern for them - where was it when they were slaughtering Alawites, Christians and Druze off and on for 1000 years?

Then there's the issue of Sunni Arabs being simultaneously wicked and pathological liars. Take Houla, for example. Here's the latest from the National Review:

“According to eyewitness accounts,” the FAZ report continues, the massacre occurred during this time. Those killed were almost exclusively from families belonging to Houla’s Alawi and Shia minorities. Over 90% of Houla’s population are Sunnis. Several dozen members of a family were slaughtered, which had converted from Sunni to Shia Islam. Members of the Shomaliya, an Alawi family, were also killed, as was the family of a Sunni member of the Syrian parliament who is regarded as a collaborator. Immediately following the massacre, the perpetrators are supposed to have filmed their victims and then presented them as Sunni victims in videos posted on the internet.
The FAZ report echoes eyewitness accounts collected from refugees from the Houla region by members of the Monastery of St. James in Qara, Syria. According to monastery sources cited by the Dutch Middle East expert Martin Janssen, armed rebels murdered “entire Alawi families” in the village of Taldo in the Houla region.
Already at the beginning of April, Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix of the St. James Monastery warned of rebel atrocities’ being repackaged in both Arab and Western media accounts as regime atrocities. She cited the case of a massacre in the Khalidiya neighborhood in Homs. According to an account published in French on the monastery’s website, rebels gathered Christian and Alawi hostages in a building in Khalidiya and blew up the building with dynamite. They then attributed the crime to the regular Syrian army. “Even though this act has been attributed to regular army forces . . . the evidence and testimony are irrefutable: It was an operation undertaken by armed groups affiliated with the opposition,” Mother Agnès-Mariam wrote.

Bottom line is that the majority Sunni Arab inhabitants of Houla are still there, celebrating (1) the deaths of the Alawites they slaughtered in the Koranic manner and (2) their success in pinning the murders they committed on the Alawites themselves. It's like 9/11 all over - on the one hand Sunni Arabs get to kill thousands of infidels, and on the other, Sunni Arabs like Thierry Meyssan (described as "French" in every media article you might read) get to convince half of the world that the atrocity wasn't planned and carried out by Sunni Arabs. And every rebel fighter killed by the government is described as a demonstrator or a civilian. The Communists were amateurs at propaganda, compared to Sunni Arabs. The pro-rebel Ennahar on the way Sunni Arab rebels count casualties:

Those killed since March last year comprised 9,862 civilians, 3,470 soldiers and 783 army deserters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britain-based watchdog counts rebel fighters who are not deserters from the army as civilians.

Note that these are also the numbers being used by the Western media.