Part 1: The Behavior of President Assad
I cannot say for certain President Bashar al-Assad did not
use chemical weapons on his own people. It would have been a foolish thing to
do, epically foolish. If he did so, his actions will go down in history as one
of the stupidest deeds ever committed, along with the Trojans deciding to open
their gates for a present from their enemies. But I have no way of knowing
whether or not he actually did it.
If Assad gassed his own people right when his chances for
survival seemed most likely, he would have had to been out his mind when he did
it, because the U.S. has been looking for an excuse to overthrow the government
in Syria for three decades and the impulse has been growing in intensity these
last few years. He would have to be more than clinically depressed or even
suicidal to hand the U.S. the perfect excuse. The insanity required to do what
Assad is accused of doing would have gone way beyond even Norman Bates-dress-like-your
mother-and-murder-people crazy, because Norman Bates at least had the good
sense of keeping his behavior out of the public eye. No, using chemical weapons
on his own people would have required President Assad to be full-on, bath
salts, eat-the-face-of-some-dude-while-the-cops-are-watching kind of crazy. But
I’m not saying he didn’t do it.
And if Assad did use chemical weapons on his own people
after making a bargain to get rid of all his chemical weapons, he must have
been out of his mind on more than one occasion, the other time being when the
Russians explained to him what it would take for him to make it out of his predicament alive. See, Russia stuck its neck out in a way it never has before
for President Assad. They made a very diplomatic move and got the world to
agree that Assad could stay in power if he agreed to give up his chemical
weapons. Russia must have been very clear in its instructions to Assad, telling
him exactly what he needed to do to survive. For Assad to have ignored the
Russians when they explained this must mean he was out of his mind then as well. Perhaps not bath salts crazy, but at least stoned out his gourd. “Bashar,
you must not give the U.S. the slightest bit of provocation or they will use it
to overthrow your government and Syria will be a steaming post-apocalyptic
version of its former self. Do you understand?” “Yeah, dude, we’re cool. Hey, you
got any Twinkies, Boris?” But I’m not saying Assad did not do what he is
accused of.
If Putin stuck his neck out the way he did, and Assad was
keeping a couple of chemical weapons stashed away just for a special moment,
then I would think Putin would want to bomb Assad himself. What kind of man betrays
the person who has saved his life just so he can go out in a blaze of glory,
chemical weapons blazing? And how stupid must Putin be—while at the same time
being smart enough to get his candidate elected President of the United States by
deceiving everybody who didn’t vote for Hillary, of course—to put his faith in
someone with a death wish?
But Assad cannot be behaving the way he is as a way of
suicide-by-cops, as we say here in the U.S. He knows just what is at stake. He
knows if the savages—I mean moderate rebels—take control of his country what
will happen. He’s seen it before when the American-backed brutal-er, moderate
rebels anal-raped Gadhafi before killing him. It will be worse for Assad. They’re
not just going to rape him, they’re going to kill his family, and brutally
oppress the Religious minority to which he belongs.
Moderate though they may be, the rebels the U.S. has been
backing have been capable of some rather immoderate behavior, behavior such as
beheading twelve-year-old boys and eating the internal organs of their slain
foes. They are the same type of people who killed dozens of Coptic Christians as
they were in church for Palm Sunday service last week. They’re the same sort of
people we use as an excuse for not allowing Syrian refugees into our country.
Far better to let them stay in Syria and fight for freedom. They’re good enough
to be the face of freedom against tyranny in the perpetually messed-up Middle
East, but God forbid they ever get within our borders. Let’s face it, as far as
moderates go, they’re kind of on the far end of the spectrum.
By the way, don’t believe it is mere speculation as to the
behavior of these cannibalistic moderate rebels. The video of the
actions of these child murdering moderate rebels is available for all to
see on the internet. No need to take the word of anonymous sources from secret
agencies, the facts are pretty hard to deny.
But all of this is not my way of saying Assad did not gas
his own people at the very moment his safety, the safety of his family and his
fellow Alawites seemed assured after a years-long bloody struggle. There are
many people in this world with extreme sexual fetishes, perhaps being anal
raped before being murdered is one of Assad’s. I have no way of knowing for
sure. Unlike our news media, I have no access to anonymous sources from
agencies who only want what’s best for Syria.
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