Defending Assad

Why are the political leaders of the West trying to confuse matters regarding Syria? To demystify the problem we must ask ourselves why the Anglo-american superpowers’ prime objective, rather than fight the enemy of their own creation, Isis, is to remove Syrian President Bashar alassad at any cost and replace him with a leader submissive to the geopolitical aims of the faceless financial elitists.

Assad’s prime objective, on the other hand, with the help of Russia, is preventing Isis taking control of Syria. In some rational, parallel world, one would have thought that the interests of both the Angloamericans and Russians would lie in a united front on this issue.

Unfortunately, however, it is too late now to turn the clock back and rewind history to the days before Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya were systematically and mercilessly targeted to remove, respectively, the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party from Iraq, Taleban from Afghanistan, and the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

Despite the latest propaganda, Assad is the last person who could gain from a chemical attack in Syria’s northern province of Idlib. Perhaps we should remember that Britain has the longest and earliest involvement in the development of chemical weapons.

If and when Assad is eventually removed from power, I wonder who will be the next victim on the agenda marked down for removal? As each regime falls, one by one, Isis grows stronger and stronger and the threat to ordinary citizens in Europe and elsewhere multiplies. It would not be so bad if the elitists who created the enemy kept them to themselves.

WILLIAM BURNS

Pennywell Road, Edinburgh