Miyerkules, Enero 2, 2013

A CALL:  END TO THE WAR IN SYRIA


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Mauro Gia Samonte
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January 2 2013

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Been thinking the night before about what is happening in Syria. The civil war in that country, begun as conventional peaceful protest first quarter of 2011, has now turned into a conflagration engulping the entire nation. Been trying to recall the exact words Syrian President Bashar al-Assad spoke in an interview with a lady journalist in which he threatened -- or if not a threat, a painting of a scenario -- of a catasthrope that can result from an action by US and its allied powers to bring down his regime. The interview, I remember, came on the heels of a series of civilian protests that had overthrown regimes across the Middle East, beginning with Egypt, and then Jordan, Libya, not to mention the Iraqi war that brought down the regime of Saddam Hussein leading to his execution. The way the protests had quickly progressed at the time and the tension resulting from them was heightening, I surmised that Assad would shortly go the way of his predecessors in the crumbling of Middle East decades-running regimes.

But one year and a half since the Syrian protests began, and with those protests blowing up into full-scale civil war, Assad remains entrenched in power and dealing Syrian rebels untold destruction and deaths. As of last count, the United Nations places the death toll in the conflict at 60,000, many of them children.

With this development in view and thinking back on the late 2011 interview of Assad by that lady journalist, I shudder as I wonder if the Syrian civil war is not actually the beginning of a much wider scenario Assad was already painting.

This had been my torment over the night.

And then it hits me. Why not search the internet. That interview being on video, it should lie there intact, somewhere. Excitedly now, I search Google, just indicating "interview of Assad by a lady journalist". And lo!, its there, on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHMtgKyh9Z0.

One thing stands out in the interview: that Assad is not stepping down, not from pressure by the United States, or by the United Nations which Assad calls "not credible", and that if anybody succeeds in bringing him down, it will have a domino effect across the Middle East, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, all over the world.

That does seem to place the dilemma in Syria as one of allowing to stay in power what is popularly perceived as a dictatorship or let it be for the sake of world peace.

I am not one about to bite at that bait. We have a war going in Syria. Each side has its own position to defend. Assad of course does it the best way he can, military might and all, and so do the rebel forces.

If I have been contributing my bit to calling attention to the Syrian conflict, it has been clear from the very start that it is because of my worry for innocent babies and children getting killed or forever maimed in the conflict.

END TO THE WAR IN SYRIA!


SAVE THE BABIES!

SAVE THE CHILDREN!

SAVE THE INNOCENTS!

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