aad0906 wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Yes, China and Russia would be loved in the Arab world if they aligned with the freedom-loving democracies opposing the big bad Syrian government, like Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Jordan and Yemen. Why doesn't President Assad bend to the resolution all those wonderful countries voted supporting democratization and freedom of speech in Syria? They just want peace and freedom, that's the only thing in which they're interested. Nothing else. Nada.
Of course do those nations have alterior motives and of course none of them are interested in democracy. But the Syrian government is undeniably killing innocent people right now and it would be nice if something could be done about that. Perhaps even without the intervention of the big bad western powers?
Western media have presented events in Syria in fairytale terms: peaceful picketers who suddenly have artillery strikes called in on them. Even this stilted reporting couldn't apologize for the Aleppo suicide bombing where we saw the "protesters" revealed for what they are ... violent fanatics and religious nuts.
Violence is being used and the Syrian government is meeting force with force. It would be exceptionally stupid for the west to wade into this quagmire.
Westerners don't bother to educate themselves about the ideology of the Baath Party: secularism, republicanism, socialism, and feminism. These are things most westerners say they want to see in the Arab world but they can't bring themselves to tolerating the Baath Party because of the cartoonishly villainous face painted on it. But they will be content to just grumble slightly when NATO exports billions of dollars of death machines to the murderous and insane Saudi regime. No Syrians hijacked USA aircraft on 9/11, Syria has never funded a FTO, Syria hasn't been involved in a foreign war in more than 40 years.