You are an embattled nation with the entire world
watching. Your allies Russia and China just made a major decision at the UN
Security Council in your favor with much of their reputation and future at
stake. Western propagandists have been relentlessly making up news stories
regarding your nation no matter what you do, for nearly a year, starting
with "Gay
Girl in Damascus" who Syrian
activists insisted was still real even after doubts began to surface,
and leading up to daily reports from
"activists say" coming out
of London, England.
Your choices: continue a campaign to restore order in Homs which is
admittedly overrun by cross-border militants and foreign terrorists
operating with NATO support and arms, fighting under the banner of the "Free
Syrian Army." Or, spend your time instead purposefully killing women and
children in front of British and French journalists before plotting over
easily-intercepted radios their spectacular deaths in front of a watching
world?
Image: Syria's rebels are armed. Were they running loose in New York
City, a military operation mobilized to neutralize them would not be
described as a "massacre" by the corporate media.
Quite clearly there is something wrong with this narrative being given to us
by the West, who have established themselves by a comfortable margin as
serial liars. Iraq lost a million sons and daughters to these lies. Libya
likewise was portrayed as a
nation "massacring civilians" when it is now clear these "civilians"
were US State Department-listed terrorists of
the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group who are now conducting nationwide
murder sprees.
Reading any
report out of the corporate-media, we find Syria's campaign against
admittedly armed rebels paradoxically referred to as a "massacre," and an
almost palpable fervor to justify circumventing the latest UNSC resolution
veto. As news comes out of the death of two foreign journalists in Homs,
Remi Ochlik and Marie Colvin who sneaked into Syria and were operating there
illegally to begin with, Western leaders are unanimously calling this the
"breaking point." France's
Nicolas Sarkozy even stated, "that's enough now, this regime must go and
there is no reason that Syrians don't have the right to live their lives and
choose their destiny freely."
One wonders where Sarkozy's moral fortitude was when in January, while
covering a pro-Assad rally in Homs, French
journalist Gilles Jacquier was killed in a rebel attack. Unbelievably,
not only does this contradict the news we've been told all along of Assad
persecuting a brutal campaign against peaceful protesters, but while the
attack was condemned by France, it was the Syrian government who was blamed
for not protecting their journalists from armed thugs. Where were the calls
for the rebels to lay down their arms? Where was the cessation of political
support for the "Free Syrian Army?" Where was the decision by NATO to
discontinue their support for rebels who had now murdered a Western
journalist?
Clearly, reason is not driving Western foreign policy, rather a search for a
convenient "casus belli" to serve where their "responsibility to protect"
doctrine has failed. We will not know what really happened in Syria this
week regarding the two journalists allegedly killed there, so long as "activists
say" is attached to each claim made about the events.
What we do know is that the West has long ago predetermined that regime
change will occur in Syria, and that they will do anything necessary, at any
cost to achieve it.