Syria’s Defense

Ali, a reader, believes that it doesn’t make sense blaming Syria in the latest attacks. In a previous comment section, he wrote:

Fateh el Islam split off Fateh-el-intifada (the latter a Syrian creation) precisely because they did not want to tow the Syrian intelligence line. This was their own admission. This is an extreme Sunni organization which views Alawis and the Shia on par with the Israelis and Americans, if not worse. So why exactly does Syria finance and support an organization that regards it as heretic and sees it and its allies as the enemy?

And it seems to me that after so many alleged assassinations and aims at “destabilizing” Lebanon as the March 14th camp claims , that Syria only gets deeper in the hole, and brings even more timely pressure on itself by the US and its typical international chorus, and precipitates even more vociferous calls to push the tribunal through Chapter 7 that you would think they would have learned their lesson and laid low for a while, no? You would think that they would have realized that every time an assassination takes place, every time a bomb blows off somewhere, where the gov’t camp pounces on it and exploits it to immediate political gain at the regional and international expense of Syria, lending their weakened voice some further life, that the Syrians would have learned their lesson and come to understand that they cannot compete with the power and reach of the Saatchi and Saatchi crowd?

And now, exactly what gains does Syria get out of this, except the usual condemnation without proof based on the claims and innuendos of a discredited clique who are holding on for dear life at the behest of a falling and fallen empire who only a year ago conspired and bombed their country into the stone age, and resisting (this is the only resisting they know) and fighting calls for new parliamentarian elections while unashamedly claiming to be the voice of the majority? If you are the voice of the majority, then give the majority the opportunity to vote you back in. Then you can legitimately shut the other camps down once and for all.

Syria is not without sin. But the puerile trust you have in a political faction to guide and lead you even while we all stand at the edge of the abyss is precisely why we are in the mess we find our selves in.