By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-10 19:24:30 | Updated at 2024-12-26 03:22:54
2 weeks ago
In Syria, be careful what you wish for: Sharia law and new wave of refugees is more likely than ‘democracy’ following fall of Assad and U.S. meddling
Gateway Pundit ^ | Dec. 10, 2024 | by Leo Hohmann
Posted on 12/10/2024 10:08:03 AM PST by Kazan
Why, exactly, did Washington back Sunni rebels taking down Assad, and if Washington wants a Turkish-backed Sunni Muslim caliphate in Syria, should we as Christians cheer Washington getting its way?
All of those in the West celebrating the fall of the Assad regime in Syria had better be careful what they wish for.
I’ve heard some awfully dumb statements coming from conservative circles in recent days about the “stunning” nine-day collapse of Syria. It’s not so stunning when you learn that the American CIA had been planning the offensive for months with the full support of its NATO ally Turkey.
One prominent regular guest commentator on Fox News has come out and said both sides in the Syrian Civil War are made up of really bad guys, but that he was hoping the coalition of “rebels” which include the former El Nusra, al-Qaida and other Sunni Muslim terrorists would win. Why? Because they’re against Russia and Iran, whom he fears more.
But even that nonsense pales in comparison to some of the other chatter out there in conservative and even Christian circles, where I’m hearing it said that there is “hope” now for a democratically elected constitutional republic to emerge in Syria. Where is there another example of such a government — of, by and for the people — anywhere in the Middle East? I would actually go further and say I don’t see a government anywhere on Earth right now that reflects those vaunted principles.
Let’s face it: The U.S. didn’t support the rebels who overran Syria because they thought Assad was too brutal of a dictator. They supported them because it was yet another way to deal a black eye to Russia.
Instead of Russia and Iran running the show in Syria, now we face the very real possibility that Russia and Iran will be replaced with Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Syria’s new jihadist regime has reportedly already started rounding up the Christians.
But, however unjustified, the celebrations continue here in America in certain Christian and conservative circles. Yay, we beat Russia again! Score one for the good guys!
Even some of the most sincere Christian supporters of the state of Israel are celebrating the fall of Assad. However brutal of a dictator he was, at least Assad, being from the Alawite Shia sect, was one of the religious minorities in Syria. As such, he protected other minorities in the country, which includes Christians.
Now, with the Sunnis in control of the country, we should expect nothing other than oppression, if not open slaughter, of Syrian Christians. That’s what Sunni Muslim regimes always do when empowered. That’s their history. Read the works of historian Raymond Ibrahim and you will get acquainted with this history. A good place to start would be to study the history of the Ottoman Empire and what they did to the Armenian Christians.
For a peek at who HTS and its comrades really are, take a look at this 3-minute video, where they say openly that their next goal is to take over Jerusalem.
The West and Israel are playing with fire. They think they can use one portion of Islam to punish the other portion. They think the portion backed by Iran is “more evil” than the portion backed by Turkey. I fear they are in for a rude awakening.
Watch the video (at link) for a sneak peek at exactly the type of folks we are talking about here. These Islamist rebels are filmed celebrating the taking of Damascus by promising that it’s just the start and that they will take Jerusalem next to free all the Gazans.
If the West thinks Iran was the biggest threat to the Middle East, and Assad was the nastiest brutal dictator, they are about to learn what real brutality looks like.
The American Russophobc mentality has served as a blinder to those who conduct U.S. foreign policy. We could have made peace with Russia after the Cold War. Instead, we expanded NATO right up to the edge of Russia’s border and placed Western troops and weapons in those former Soviet-bloc countries. Then we militarized Ukraine, placing more sophisticated missile systems there, and told Ukraine it was OK to fire them into Russia proper. Imagine if Russia had done that in Mexico? Trained Mexicans to fight Americans, then sent them super-sophisticated missile systems and told them to go ahead and start firing them into Texas. How would the American government react to that. Oh, but it gets worse. In our hypothetical scenario, when the American government finally gets tired of being attacked by Mexicans armed with Russian weapons, we invade Mexico to stop it, only to be called a perpetrator of “naked aggression” by the Russian government and its media propagandists.
How would that work out?
I think you know what would happen. It would be tantamount to a declaration of war by Russia on America and World War III would ensue.
That, my friends, is what’s going on, only in reverse. And that is why we are now engaged in World War III. Syria is just the latest salvo in the Third World War. Don’t expect it to be the last, because now we are in a tit-for-tat escalation.
Pray for peace. Prepare for war.
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KEYWORDS: anotheriranianwar; anotherrussianwar; assad; deepstate; globalists; leohohmann; putin; russia; syria; zeeptards
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1 posted on 12/10/2024 10:08:03 AM PST by Kazan
To: Kazan
Jeez folks. As if Bidet could actually accomplish something.
Russia’s and hezbollah’s support of Assad collapsed, and the hit jihadis walked in the front door.
2 posted on 12/10/2024 10:12:37 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("Israel will just have to ... kill more Christians” - FR's own "nitzy")
To: Kazan
If Syria goes muslim, Damascus will become a dirty third world city with everyone living in abject poverty.
3 posted on 12/10/2024 10:15:41 AM PST by chopperk (airhi)
To: chopperk
"If Syria goes muslim, "
When...when Syria goes muslim...not if...
4 posted on 12/10/2024 10:19:16 AM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
To: Kazan
Just like in New York and for the same reason, the dictator is always replaced with a worse one.
5 posted on 12/10/2024 10:23:02 AM PST by stanne
To: Kazan
Prophetic scripture has no good news for Damascus. A day is coming when it will be a permanently barren pile of rubble.
6 posted on 12/10/2024 10:24:14 AM PST by lurk (u)
To: Kazan
7 posted on 12/10/2024 10:25:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Kazan
Western media is saying that Assad was a dictator who ordered the torture of his enemies, and amassed a vast personal fortune.
Well, sure. But don't most Western, Eastern, and Third World leaders amass vast personal fortunes? Putin, Zelensky, the Chinese oligarchs, Pelosi, etc.
And is there a powerful nation that doesn't torture its enemies? Consider Guantanamo Bay and the J6 people.
Yes, Assad is bad. But if we apply the same standard to all world leaders, most would be deposed.
8 posted on 12/10/2024 10:26:36 AM PST by Angelino97
To: Kazan
The outcome was gonna suck no matter who was on the winning side.
On one side you had the Russians and Iranians who used Syria as a springboard to stir up sh*t against Israel and Lebanon and eventually us.
On the other side you had dangerous Islamists of various stripes who hate Israel, the US and the Gulf States.
Assad may have met the definition of the devil we know vs the one don’t (the Islamists), because he was “willing” to protect Syrian Christians - but with Iran’s evergrowing influence in that country, how long was that gonna last before Hezbollah starting killing Syrian Christians?
Either way, this was and remains a situation with a huge suck factor.
9 posted on 12/10/2024 10:31:52 AM PST by MplsSteve
To: Kazan
I doubt that anyone seriously believes that somehow, magically, Syria will become a Democracy.
10 posted on 12/10/2024 10:35:42 AM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
To: lurk
I wonder if they’ll rename the Damascus gate in Jerusalem to the rubble gate.
11 posted on 12/10/2024 10:38:21 AM PST by xp38
To: Kazan
When you dine with the devil, be sure to bring a long spoon.
There are no heroes, other than Israel, anywhere in the middle east. Just 7th century savages.
A pox on all of them.
12 posted on 12/10/2024 10:39:48 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
To: Kazan
Arabs don’t do democracy. They are unable. Some people are just like that. Gotta have a strongman on top. Eastern Europe is exhibit A in this regards.
13 posted on 12/10/2024 10:58:30 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: Kazan
I’ve heard some awfully dumb statements coming from conservative circles in recent days about the “stunning” nine-day collapse of Syria.
I think it's the same reason Afghanistan collapsed so quickly. Most of those people WANT an Islamic state. Now they have one or shortly will have.
14 posted on 12/10/2024 11:01:37 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
To: Kazan
Reportedly Erdogan is convinced he can soon expel the 3.5 million Syrians living in Turkey, costing him tens of billions and dragging down the economy.
15 posted on 12/10/2024 11:09:15 AM PST by montag813
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