It appears that the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has fallen.  While the establishment media in the West seem to celebrate this news, it is anything but good news for those who value liberty and human life.

In April 2018, I wrote a post titled “Assad Is Not Crazy, Therefore He Must Go”.  I wrote the following:

Bashar al-Assad is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 1971 to 2000.  Bashar al-Assad went to medical school and then went on to specialize in ophthalmology at the Western Eye Hospital in London.  He only was called back to Syria in the mid 1990s to become the heir apparent of his father after Assad’s older brother died in a car accident.

While this does not mean that Assad does not crave political power, it is obvious that his original intentions were not to be an overtly political figure.  Most people seeking political power when they are young do not become an eye doctor.

Assad was mostly praised by the Western media in previous decades.  Diane Sawyer interviewed him and had nice things to say about him.  There are pictures of John Kerry dining with Assad and their respective spouses before Kerry turned on him as part of the Obama administration.

Assad got on the naughty list of the U.S. establishment, and now he is called an animal, a terrorist, and almost everything else nasty that can think of.  Of course, we almost never hear these terms used against U.S. politicians.  If they are used against Trump, it isn’t because he dropped bombs on innocent people.  It is because he sent out a rude tweet.

Syria has been one of the few places in the Middle East where Christianity was allowed to thrive.  Incidentally, Iraq was another place where Christianity thrived up until the U.S. invasion.  Christianity is also tolerated in Iran.  For some reason, the U.S. government, with the support of a majority of self-identified Christian Americans, like to overthrow secular dictators and eliminate the Christian populations in these places.  Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia gets U.S. support.

It really is odd.  It just shows the irrationality that has prevailed with the out-of-control U.S. empire.  It’s bad enough that there is so much U.S. interventionism when it comes to foreign policy.  But the policies themselves are completely irrational.  We don’t even know which side we are on half the time.  Many times, we (meaning the U.S. government) are playing both sides.

I think Assad is probably one of the least bad people when it comes to dictators.  He may be one of the least bad people amongst all political leadership in the world.  He has actually tried to keep Syria together by protecting innocent people who have been terrorized by the thugs that have invaded the country due to the U.S. war in Iraq and the attempted overthrow of the Syrian government by the U.S. establishment.

Any crimes committed by the Assad regime pale in comparison to the crimes of U.S. presidents and those who surround them.

The 2024 Fall

The fall of the Syrian government to terrorists fits in with a lot of events in late 2024.  Russia is tied up in Ukraine.  The Israeli state is attempting to take down anyone it deems as an enemy.  Trump is coming into office with Tulsi Gabbard as an influence.  You can see why the powers-that-be wanted to get this done.

Biden and his handlers are now saying that they will fund the new government.  So, the U.S. taxpayer, 23 years after 9/11, will be funding Al Qaeda.

And of course, the U.S. empire likes to take out secular regimes that don’t obey the orders of the U.S. empire.  The U.S. government tried to take out Syria when Obama (the peace president) was in office.

They relied on a story of Assad using chemical weapons against his own people.  It is “weapons of mass destruction” all over again by the same liars.  In 2019, Wikileaks published an email with concerns by at least one of the investigators of the so-called chemical weapons saying that the report misrepresented the facts.

Of course, the same media that told you about the chemical weapons and that Assad is a really bad guy never go back and correct the record.

We will see what happens in Syria in the coming days and months, but it is not going to be good.  Under Assad, the Syrian government protected Christians.  It wasn’t a libertarian society by any means, just as no country on planet Earth is.  But at least it was largely peaceful before the U.S. started firing missiles and funding terrorist organizations in Syria.

This is why it is critical that Tulsi Gabbard is part of the Trump administration.  She has been called an Assad apologist by many people because she recognized what the U.S. government was doing in Syria and said so.

We can only hope that the truth will come out on this.  Assad was not the problem in Syria, and if he was, that was for the Syrian people to deal with.  The problem is the violence and interventionism of the U.S. government and its allies.