A less stable world is frightening
Editor:
Reflecting on the deterioration in security in the World is frightening. Islamaphobia has become a password for intolerance, fear and hatred. Scary enough to implant a figure like Donald Trump into the most powerful political position on Earth.
Working backwards from today, that fear has been implanted by some world shaking events. Mass Refugee migration and suffering due to war has stimulated radicalism and provided an opportunity for the creation of ISIS and the rise of intolerance based on fear mongering (some real but much of it invented). There are now 400,000 dead in Syria with millions more crippled and homeless from the violence. The combatants now include international super powers on opposing sides in an explosive arena of war threatening escalation to worldwide confrontation. This has given, supposed, justification for invasion of personal privacy at home and terrorist laws being passed eliminating freedoms of movement and expression. It has stimulated
Trudeau says the path to peace in Syria doesn’t include Assad. Trudeau should be asked to give us one example that would give us reason to be optimistic about removing Syria’s President. In this century the United States (Often with Canada’s help or approval) has overthrown governments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Haiti, Honduras and Brazil. Given this record, what does Trudeau think Syria will look like once we rid the world of Bashar al-assad?
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2011 was the awakening of the Arab spring in Syria where peaceful, courageous demonstrators recognized there was a better way for existence than the iron fisted rule of hereditary dictatorship controlled by the Assad family. Courageous peace loving people came out in the tens of thousands suggesting that Bashar Assad had outlived his usefulness to the country as a dictator and that a more lenient, compassionate, progressive, democratic government was being recommended by the majority of the population. The peaceful demonstrations lasted for months even well after government forces started shooting demonstrators. Peaceful transition never appeared to be in the interest of Assad or other clandestine agencies who suddenly started to supply arms, money and violent agitators to escalate destabilization in the geographical area. Now we have growing destabilization across the planet.
This didn’t take very long to develop into a World War type crisis. The simple answer would have been to give peaceful transition a chance when it presented itself. World governments need more enlightenment not military confrontation. History proves that societies cannot be enlightened while resident families are being massacred for the enthusiasm of profit and power which is the foundation of war.
At the beginning of World War II we didn’t have the weaponry to destroy all life on Earth, now we do and too many of the people with their fingers on the trigger cannot exactly be considered stable. One tweet and it could be all over. Humanity is perfectly capable of destroying itself so we really have little to lose by giving peace and compassion a chance. I predict the war exhausted and future generations would appreciate it.