Syria's Dumpster Fire


Let's just be done with the bullshit.  The only people who think Al Julani is doing a great job are the people who do not have to live in Syria.  I refuse to call him President al Sharaa.  He is still a terrorist. Nothing can wipe away the consistent record of terror activities meted out by this man and his bigoted comrades.



 

Now - al Julani has  just unveiled new Syrian currency which was printed in Russia.  But he really has no real currency in a modern world. There is widespread unrest across Syria. The nation is a powder keg.  And if it is not the Alawites being chased about with shovels and pick axes along the coastline of Latakia, it is Christmas trees being torched in Damascus and a suicide bomber blowing his head off inside a mosque in Homs just a couple of days ago.

On the streets, Sunni thugs are roughing up little Alawite boys who are selling bread for their mothers and forcing them to recite the shahada.  Young girls are still being kidnapped and quickly shunted off into the rampant rape industry that plagues Muslim-majority nations.   They call it "concubinage". The rest of us prefer accurate linguistics: human trafficking of minors to pedophiles.

Syria is as corrupt and fraudulent a deal as the State of Minnesota;  but on much larger scale.  Al Julani is a show horse who has scant control over the reins of governance and even less control over his rag-tag Syrian army which has managed to successfully consolidate ISIS flanks into its ranks. You cannot deal with external threats by collapsing them into an internal armed camp and suddenly call them legitimate.

But since our Republic has shown a distinct fondness for treating the wild environs of the world as personal petting zoos - the bullshit will continue.  And all of the confetti narratives which grace the headlines from day-to-day are just a parade of disinformation regarding the situation on the ground for the average Syrian citizen. Vigorous arguments in favor of al-Julani are never aligned with the truth, and to be an ally to a lie is a precarious position.  With certainty, I can state that journalists should never seek to insulate those in authority from criticism.  This includes our American President and our Department of State.  We are mistaken - to trust, or place any confidence in the current self-declared leader of Syria.  He is a striped skunk and what wafts across the landscape of Syria is not the smell of freedom.

Problematic - is that chaos breeds terror and terror always metastasizes into the most unlikely of spaces. Syria is a chaotic space with a small locus of control coming out of Damascus which seeks to maintain control with acts of tyranny against the general population.  And when they are weary enough of this nonsense, may they take it upon themselves to do what is best for their nation.

 



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