Sunday, August 25, 2013


If the "West" attacks the Syrian regime because of the mass deaths in Eastern Ghouta, shouldn't it logically also attack Egypt because of the massacres there?

Then there's Israel - shouldn't it have been attacked when it attacked Gaza in 2008-09 or Lebanon in 2006, killing about as many people as the highest estimates for the number of deaths from Eastern Ghouta are said to be - and the hundreds of thousands of people that the "West" killed itself in Iraq during the last decade...

Somehow the "Western" media forgets that at best in Syria we have a case of a "good serial killer" going after a bad one - except that the "good serial killer" has a bigger death toll. So, let's be honest: It's not about the deaths of civilians, it's about who is claimed to have killed them.

I'm not arguing in support of the Syrian regime, I'm arguing in support of some amount of honesty and objective treatment of different regimes.

I'm also afraid that the fall of the Syrian regime would not be the end for the civil war, that we would see the "West" supporting FSA's "good rebels" against al-Nusra's "bad rebels", with Lebanon and Iraq being brought fully into the war.

Of course, honestly I can't say that there should be no reaction whatsoever to suspected mass murder - of course there should be an international reaction, as there always should in cases like this. I'm just grasping after a world where the reaction would be same for each regime, no matter what country they are ruling, what ideology they represent and with which other countries they are allied with.

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