Dear Europe,
The good thing about being an old Continent is that you get to be wiser than others: you have history and experience that give you so much knowledge. You should teach the USA – over there they are faster than you and look more attractive perhaps, but exactly because they are young they make so many mistakes - and you shouldn’t follow the USA blindly, because you know where those kind of mistakes will lead you in the future…a war.
But of course if you forgot your history and the history of those around you, than you have nothing to teach and when you don’t know your past you don’t even know where you are going and you end up losing your identity.
Having said that: sanctions to Syria, really? Helping the extremists Muslims gaining power in that beautiful land? Isn’t your history in those areas too? Weren’t the Romans there? Don’t we still have so many similar traditions to the Syrians? Have we completely forgotten that?
Who are they trying to fool in the media? Haven’t they demonized Saddam Hussein, Mubarak, Khadafy already…and now even Doctor Assad? Who is next? And in those Countries where the USA and European governments were claiming that the population didn’t want their leaders anymore, have you Europe together with the USA brought democracy over there as you wanted to do? That looks like quite a strange democracy I have to say. It does seem like things were actually better without your intervention. Or is it that you are trying to do something that we are not supposed to know? Maybe a pipeline of natural gas, which is supposed to pass through Syria? Well this is all another article actually, which deserves full attention.
Let’s see this article from today to better understand how you are trying to fool our perception of things (and this is just one of the so many similar articles you are reading these days):
From Reuters (Feb 4 2012): my notes are between parenthesis.
BEIRUT/MUNICH (Reuters) - Syrian forces killed more than 200 people (where are they? Who are they?) in an assault on the city of Homs, activists said (who exactly? What’s your definition of activists? You mean perhaps the mercenaries sent to Syria by other Countries?), the bloodiest day of an 11-month uprising giving sudden urgency to a push for a U.N. resolution calling for President Bashar al-Assad to cede power.
The Arab League, Europe and the United States leaned hard on Assad's veto-wielding ally Russia to let the Security Council pass a resolution later on Saturday backing an Arab call for Assad to transfer powers to a deputy.
Moscow said the resolution was not "hopeless," but it needed to be adjusted to avoid "taking sides in a civil war."
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe called the killings in Homs a "massacre" and a "crime against humanity." In remarks clearly aimed at Moscow, he said any country that blocked U.N. action would bear a "heavy responsibility in history." (This Minister is threatening Russia? Why? They can’t disagree with France?)
After what U.S. officials called "vigorous" talks between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Moscow announced that Lavrov would fly to Syria in three days to meet Assad.
Death tolls cited (cited???!! Is that the only proof we have?) by activists and opposition groups (who are they, can we have some more information?) ranged from 237 to 260 (names? photos? did these people even existed before being killed?) , making the Homs attack the deadliest so far in Assad's crackdown (crackdown? Is the journalist accusing Assad even if he has no proof of what he is talking about?) on protests and one of the bloodiest episodes in the "Arab Spring" (does this killing still look like an Arab Spring? So many soldiers in Syria were killed and there are names and proof for this information: when the protests are not peaceful, they are not protests anymore, and those who kill are assassins) of revolts that have swept the region.
Residents said Syrian forces began shelling the Khalidiya neighborhood at around 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Friday using artillery and mortars. They said at least 36 houses were completely destroyed with families inside (whoever is talking was so lucky! His house was untouched looks like and none of the neighbors he knew got killed since he is just talking in general of families he doesn’t know, no names, ages, no details at all)
"We were sitting inside our house when we started hearing the shelling. We felt shells were falling on our heads," said Waleed, a resident of Khalidiya (but they didn’t! lucky person! Or…)
"The morning has come and we have discovered more bodies, bodies (bodies! Again so general that means nothing) are on the streets," he said. "Some are still under the rubble. Our movement is better but there is little we can do without ambulances and other things."
An activist in the neighborhood contacted by Reuters (contacted by Reuters? What are the chances they knew an activist in that area? 1 in a million?) said residents were using primitive tools to rescue people. They feared many were buried under rubble.
"We are not getting any help, there are no ambulances or anything. We are removing the people with our own hands," he said, adding there were only two field hospitals treating the wounded. Each one had a capacity to deal with 30 people, but he estimated the total number of wounded at 500.
"We have dug out at least 100 bodies so far, they are placed in the two mosques."
A third Khalidiya resident, speaking by telephone with wailing and cries of "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) audible in the background (a proof that they are talking to a possible extremist Muslim? Is he talking the truth this person or he is just against the regime and therefore he can’t be taken seriously?), said at least 40 corpses had been retrieved from streets and damaged buildings.
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And there is more but I won’t continue commenting, when it is so evident how this article is deceiving and just giving an example of terrible journalism (otherwise called propaganda). The journalist is so assertive and yet has no proof of what he is writing. This article is so ridiculous and approximate, that doesn’t deserve any other comment.
All I’m trying to say is – yes we are very occupied with our jobs, our families, our life but we are not stupid…stop the propaganda!
Syria is us, it’s our history and their President is just like one of our Presidents who is doing his job, perhaps even more intelligent than many other Presidents. Smart his decision to ally with Russia in this occasion (I’m sure at a dear cost though). Mubarak tried with the USA and we all know how it went, Khadafy tried with France and Italy (he even sent a letter to Berlusconi) and he got killed.
Why are we not reading what the Russian government has to say? If you look into the news it is extremely hard to find the reasons for Russia and China to use their veto power on the UN resolution.
Simply, they had to veto the UN resolution on Syrian government because the resolution was one-sided: it was a demand for an end to violent action by the Damascus government, without also imposing special, specific obligations on the armed groups battling the Assad regime. And isn’t this a pretty good reason? One side can continue the killing and the other one has to stand there without doing anything?
Thanks to Russia and China maybe things can be saved: maybe Assad hopefully sooner or later can establish some serenity again over there, start working on some reforms for the population and bring prosperity to that beautiful Country, which we should visit one day to discover some important history that belongs to all of us and enjoy the amazing hospitality of the people who live there now.
