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Monday, March 24, 2014

The Syrian Nightmare

A recent article in the Times shows just how bad the situation is in Syria.

The government bombards neighborhoods with explosive barrels, missiles, heavy artillery and, the United States says, chemical weapons, then it sends in its allies in Hezbollah and other militias to wage street warfare. It jails and tortures peaceful activists, and uses starvation as a weapon, blockading opposition areas where trapped children shrivel and die. 

The opposition is now functionally dominated by foreign-led jihadists who commit their own abuses in the name of their extremist ideology, just last week shooting a 7-year-old boy for what they claimed was apostasy. And some of those fighters, too, have targeted civilians and used siege tactics.

I can barely imagine how awful the situation is there for any average citizen that stayed behind. We were very smart not to get involved and I suppose it's just going to continue until so many people are dead that there isn't any country left.

This terrible thought led me to wonder what kind of a country will be left for Assad or someone else to govern. Who would want to rule such a place?

2 comments:

Nikto said...

He and his cronies just live in idyllic little compounds, surrounded by fences and guards.

Sort of like the gated communities rich Americans are building to wall themselves off from the realities of life for everyone else.

People who isolate themselves like this seem to enjoy the suffering of the little people. Feeling superior makes life so much more enjoyable.

Larry said...

And feeling smugly superior to others is a way of life for Little Marksie and Nikki. At a guess, neither of you two stooges live in a ghetto, either.