Thank you so much for writing this, Janice!!! And thank you, Matt, for posting it. Janice, you put in words what I was feeling, wanting to say. And there is more, of course. The world ignored Syria. So now Syria is coming to, and entering into, the world. Who is blaming Bashar now? No, they blame the victims. They blame people that they bravely rose up and demanded democratic reform, the dismantling of an oppressive dictatorship. The West always said, why don't you rise up for democracy? Why not peaceful demonstrations like Gandhi? They ask the Muslims to not be violent, to try to be more like "us." But no one wants to understand anything, ever. When they rise up and peacefully protest, and Bashar sends out his assassins, thugs, and snipers, then tortures children, the West is silent. There's no oil! In Libya they weren't silent, but it didn't work out there either. Removal of a dictator is radically different from removal of a colonial power (one that is "civilized" in some way) or removal of a weak monarch. They literally wage war on their own people using entire armies. It's happening in Egypt, yet the West continues to report that "Egyptians like Sisi," which is an outright lie. The truth is so much harder than lies, until the aftermath, when the problem with lies shows up. Sorry.
Siham
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