More championing of that which undermines Western and/or Christian civilization. We are to believe Assad is to blame for the deaths in this civil war (more accurately jihad), not those in the West and its Gulfie and Sunnite allies who fomented and fostered it. Syria has been on the radar of the neocon (”endless war for endless peace”) types well before the Iraq war (Operation Clean Break). I wonder how Syrian Christians must feel, especially those with children. They see the formerly Christian countries of the West essentially supporting jihad and terrorism to overthrow the secular government which protects them. Women in Damascus can walk around the streets without a head covering and can go to universities and be professionals. Yet they see women like Hillary Clinton and other Western feminists effectively side with those who would turn the life of woman in Damascus into a hellish existence. It must be baffling. But I’m sure they also know that radical Sunnite jihadism has been the disastrous weapon of choice for Western neocons and will continue to be so in the future. But, alas, they are merely the frog trying to understand the scorpions logic.
Tangentially, there is an aspect of this Syrian conflict that will never be discussed in open. Consanguinity or inbreeding. I think it was bogger/geneticist Razib Khan (fired from NYT for believing in human biodiversity) who put it bluntly, ISIS is a result of banging your sister. ISIS and jihadism in Syria is found among the population is the highest consanguinity. And higher consanguinity is inversely proportional to IQ. Areas with the lowest consanguinity, such as Damascus, have the highest support for Assad and greater levels of secular attitudes (women should be allowed to vote, got to school, etc.). Interesting subject and explains a lot.
It’s not even close. I know who I side with in Middle East. Anyone fighting the Sunnite Islamists. Specifically R+6.
I pray that Trump’s national security advisor is Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. #MakeTheWorldSafeAndSaneAgain. And peaceful and prosperous for us and for them.
Yep. Not just Syria either. In Egypt Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood boys were murdering Copts and burning churches until Al-Sisi took over. The Muslim Al-Sisi showed up at Christmas Mass and proclaimed a united Egypt and solidarity with the Copts, and he wished them a merry Christmas to wild cheers.
And now Obama is complaining that al-Sisi named the Morsi folks/Muslim Brotherhood terrorists and is excluding them from Egyptian politics. Seems to me he is doing nothing other than the equivalent of de-Nazification.
I’m sure Putin is angling for power in Syria. But the fact is, that with him propping up Assad, you can be guaranteed that the rights of Syrian Christians, especially Orthodox ones, will be respected.
Middle Eastern Priority #1 for every Western nation should be to it that the rights of Christians there be defended.