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DECEMBER 29, 2013
This picture is haunting and it’s
been floating around the internet with the sentence:
The last sentence a 3-year-old
Syrian said before he died: “I’m gonna tell God everything”
And that’s equally haunting.
It’s impossible to verify but the picture tells a story about the pain
and suffering that exists in Syria right now. There are many in the media
who would like to say this is because president Bashar al-Assad is a ruthless
killer. And that’s half true. Like other government leaders – he
has engaged in war and with that war has come the death of tens of thousands
and the displacement of over 1 million Syrians now living in refugee camps.
But this hasn’t always been the
case. This is the inevitable result of a covert war being waged by the
U.S., Israel and other Sunni countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Our
interests in taking down the Syrian dictator al-Assad are all about
geo-politics. If we take out Syria – we neuter Iranian influence in the
region. It has gotten so bad that al-Qaeda is now fighting on the same
side as the United States government and Bashar al-Assad and his government are
fighting al-Qaeda. And Syrians are all the victim of this massive global
covert proxy war.
It has gotten to the point where
we don’t even know if the chemical weapons that were used in Syria were the
result of al-Qaeda or the Syrian government. When it comes to matters of
intelligence and propaganda – it’s very hard to discern truth from fiction.
But no one can deny that Syria was a very stable country until we
decided to go in all guns blazing. We’re not bringing democracy to the
world – that’s the sound of imperialism baby.
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