Syrian Violence: How can it end.

The West want Bashar to end violence in Syria. Yet they know very well that Bashar can not stop them from arming the rebels to continue the violence!! It is like accusing a fireman of failing to put out a fire while pouring petrol on it.

There is no way people who are arming one side of the conflict can be said to want an end to the violence. If the West want the violence in Syria to end, then my foot is growing on my forehead. It can simply not be true.

One possible explanation is that the West is trying to distabilise Syria as much as they can in order to leave her weak and less of a challenge to Israel. Other than that there is completely no logic to their actions. Syria is not a major oil producer, like Libya or Iraq, where having a weak government can make it easier to loot the oil.

Where violence has not been fanned by outside sponsorship, like Jordan and Egypt, the governments have largely been able to maintain order. Even Bahrain was able to restore order despite spirited protests by an oppressed majority. Where governments have lost control, it is because of Western sponsorship of the violence. It is a classical tool and imperialism and colonialism - divide and rule.


The countries that have faced serious instability, Libya and Syria have only done so because of outside sponsorship of the violence. These are also the countries were the ordinary populations have suffered the most from the effects of violence. Therefore it would be farfetched to think that those sponsoring the violence care about the ordinary people of those countries. They don't.


Perhaps the worst hypocrisy is when Western governments accuse Russia of arming the government while they themselves are busy arming the rebels or encouraging those arming the rebels. As the 25 year civil war in Angola showed, pouring arms into either side of a conflict only prolongs the conflict, multiplies the number of deaths and inflames the social and ethnic divisions that would be the primary cause of the conflict.


Just looking at the Arab spring, the largest number of civilian deaths have been suffered in those countries where the West sponsored rebels. Given the large number of think tanks and analysts advising Western governments, it is difficult to imagine that they are not aware of this fact. It is more likely they just don't care. Rather they care more about achieving their political ends.


They ignore the human suffering that is a by-product of their tactics.


The violence in Syria can be significantly reduced today, if the West decide to end their proxy sponsorship of the violence through Sunni governments and Turkey.