Let me quickly walk you through this so as to avoid the landmines. The Assad family gained control of Syria in 1971, when Hafez al-Assad became president. In February 1982, he carried out a nearly month-long military besiegement of Hama to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood’s anti-government uprising, leaving about 30,000 civilians dead.
When Hafez al-Assad died in 2000, his son and current president, Bashar al-Assad, took control of the country. In 2011, inspired by Arab Spring protests against then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Syrians took to the streets in anti-government protests.
As the anti-Assad rebellion grew, romance with Russia improves, The Isrealis/ Zionists and Muslims got agitated while local militias and Syrian Armed Forces defectors formed the Free Syrian Army – an armed group aimed at toppling the Assad regime. This completely changed the colour of the war as international interests represented by the Russians, Americans, Israelis, Iranians stepped in with superior firearms to paint Syria red.
Fast track to now, the argument is that Obama should have done something about it and did not. Trump promised he was not going to do anything about it during his campaign, yet he is leading the world into a treacherous battle that foes and friends are clearly not spelt out. Support for Trump intervening in this war is unfortunately total at home, sorry I mean in America.
Unfortunate in the sense that there are pressing civilian wars arrayed against Trump, and disarrayed contentious issues hanging on the legitimacy of his presidency that have come to impact on the country.
Today, there are over 600,000 homeless Americans, far greater than that number are unemployed and to get the number of those either on drug-abuse or dealing- you only need to quadruple that number. Infrastructures are on the decline while violence and race wars are increasing. And that figure in millions will be the number that will not have medical coverage by the time Trump is through with this war.The budget is revealing heavy bias for education as states departments are being short circuit for defence and meddling in affairs that are of no significance.
In fairness, Trump didn't cause this problem, he inherited it. But unlike the money he inherited from his rich father, he is beginning to escalate these problems by some rash decisions. Killing Assad will not solve the Syrian problem as antecedents have shown in Libya and even Iraq. Middles East acrimony is more spiritual than physical and Trump is in no position to understand either.
Lastly, the popular injunction is to love your neighbor as yourself, not more than yourself! We should leave NATO and the UN to handle neighbours' conflict, while we concentrate on severe issues at home like Boko Haram, Nepa, corruption...wait a minute.
Am getting confused, where is home to a documented immigrant?
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