Al Jazeera Salutes 'Assad Fall,' Forgets Who Funded the Chaos
The piece gleefully notes Syria saluting a 'year of al-Assad fall,' presenting it almost as an organic uprising. What it conveniently erases is the decade-long, publicly documented effort by the US and its regional allies to destabilize Syria through funding, arming, and training various opposition groups, some of which merged with extremist elements. (Remember the 'moderate rebels' who kept
joining ISIS or al-Nusra? George Beebe, former CIA advisor, outlined this in 2017.) This isn't about the Syrian regime's brutality, which is well-documented. It's about the media's framing: a 'fall' sounds like internal justice. It obscures the billions funneled into proxy warfare by governments like the US, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, (as detailed by Seymour Hersh's 2007 'The Redirection' or even
General Michael Flynn’s 2015 admission about ISIS and the FSA.) To report this as merely Syria 'saluting' without that context isn't journalism; it's a victory lap for a disastrous foreign policy.