Update: Syrian crisis

There seems no let down to the Syrian crisis. Violence is now mostly centered in Aleppo and parts of Damascus, two of the largest cities in Syria. The rebels and terrorists aren’t going to lay their arms very soon. This situation is going to turn out to be a disaster for the West. This is because their covert intervention under the cover of freedom and democracy is being exposed for what it truly is. That is the callous intervention influenced by their own geo-political considerations. Away from the battle lines, a propaganda effort led by mostly Western media is setting the stage for an eventual overt intervention by force in Syria. A script which was used in Libya is being followed. That is at first denouncing Assad as an illegitimate leader of Syria like they did to Gaddafi. I don’t know who gave these Western folks the right to declare who should be a legitimate leader in any country for that matter. Surely international law, standard diplomacy and policies they purport to follow such as democracy are not on their side on this. They support the free Syrian army and their cabals as if they have been democratically chosen as the representative voice of the Syrian people. What we know about this Free Syrian Army (FSA)is that it is made up of criminal elements, extremists and terrorists affiliated to terror organizations such as al-Qaeda. It won’t take a few years for these members of the FSA to cause trouble for the West. We all so this happen with the Mujahidin who were being aided by Western countries in fighting the Soviet Union and later turned on them leading up to the conflicts in Afghanistan where the West has suffered in terms of money and blood. Today people would find it difficult to accept that Osama bin Laden who was at one time the world’s most wanted man by the West in connection with the attacks on the world trade center among other buildings on 9/11. Now this can happen again in Syria if the West continues with it’s stupid foreign policies. The norm for engaging with foreign countries and entities by governments is international diplomacy. What the West is doing in Syria is gangsterism at the national level. They hope this kind of bulling will achieve their goals but it is far from the standard diplomacy expected of countries when they are trying to tackle a sensitive situation like that which is in Syria. Diplomacy alone can achieve peace in Syria. Arming these rebels isn’t an incentive for them to go for talks with the al-Assad government. After all Syria is in it’s rights as a sovereign nation to fight an armed uprising in it’s country. Democracy is far from what the West is trying to achieve in Syria. If they were for democracy, why is it that they are turning a blind eye in Bahrain where pro-democracy protests have been going on for a longer time than the conflict in Syria. This is the hypocrisy of the West which is out for all to see. International law doesn’t allow for foreigners to take sides in an internal conflict of another country. But the West has given itself the right to declare who should or shouldn’t rule Syria. They did it in Libya but they are going to fail in Syria. Another strategy the west is following is to create conditions of such despair in a country which inevitably makes it paramount for an intervention by foreigners to “correct” the situation. The use of sanctions is a starting point. In my view, they are illegal because no international consensus especially at the UN Security Council would have been reached for their implementation. Sanctions do not help the civilians who are actually in the crossfire in this conflict. They are tools used to enable civilians to turn against their government, something the West is keen on seeing in Syria. If you want to talk about massacres, they are going on, on a daily basis in Afghanistan, being penetrated by US led forces. You never hear the media mentioning much about these cases which tells you of the sheer complicity of the Western oriented media in this hypocrisy.