John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JONATHAN FREEDLAND IN THE GUARDIAN (AND PROMPTLY REMOVED BY EDITORS)
"There’s no good option in Syria. But there’s a way to make Assad pay"
Pay for what?
The only thing he has done is defend his country against packs of paid mercenaries from abroad.
He has never used poison gas. Never. There is not a scrap of proof.
However, we've seen several efforts at false flags to say he did so that America can bomb a country which has never attacked it.
Now, there's some dirty work for you - setting up people so you can bomb them.
By the way, Assad is still embraced by a majority of Syrians.
All of its Christians embrace him because he has always defended their interests. The mercenary cutthroats dumped into the country greatly threatened the Christians.
The army, after years of hard fighting, remains loyal.
By the way, when America and Britain illegally invaded Iraq, they not only killed an awful lot of people, they created a couple of million refugees.
Guess who took them in?
Oh, that Assad is a terrible man.
Oh, and by the way, who appointed America the God-like judge and executioner of others in world affairs? This is a country which, since WWII, has killed something on the order of 8 million people, perhaps more, and that would include vast numbers of children. All of it in imperial wars involving absolutely no threats to America.
AFTERWORD:
On all matters concerning the Middle East. Jonathan Freedland, in the contemporary Guardian, plays a role identical to that of Thomas Friedman in the New York Times. He makes sweeping assumptions, makes ridiculous and unsubstantiated claims, and is always doggedly loyal to Israel’s point of view. That’s some of what The Guardian calls its “quality journalism” we are all regularly exhorted to support.
