When the empire says they want to bring you democracy, count your limbs before you thank them.
© Kevork’s Newsletter
I sometimes imagine the world as one big geopolitical lab experiment — a place where
men in suits, far from any frontline, play with lives the way a child plays with matches. Syria was one of those experiments. And, as with all experiments designed by foreign policy geniuses, it ended exactly as you'd expect: in fire, ruin, and endless press releases about "democracy."
In the past decade, Western governments and their enthusiastic apprentices in the Middle East tried to convince the Syrian people to take up arms against their own national army. It sounded heroic on paper: a revolution for freedom, dignity, and Netflix subscriptions. Only one small problem: many Syrians didn't want to die in someone else's ideological war for "democracy". They wanted economic prosperity, job opportunities, and a life.
When the slogans failed to ignite, the powers behind this war found a better formula. Don't convince people; just
import zealots. So they opened the floodgates for every radical, disillusioned, and semi-brainwashed Takfiri who could spell "jihad" in broken Arabic. Thousands — tens of thousands — poured in from all over the world, the West included.
They didn't just join ISIS; many went to the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's local branch, which — irony of ironies — now rules Syria with the same cruelty once condemned by the very governments that enabled it.
It's almost poetic.
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The Federalist adds:
Lisa Monaco is the most dangerous snake in the grass, yet so far, she's been able to pretty much stay out of the spotlight. How is that?