BBC Discovers 'Alawite Area' in Syria, Forgets West's Role in Fracture
The BBC reports a deadly blast at a Syrian mosque, claiming eight lives in a 'predominantly Alawite area.' They manage to subtly imply sectarianism, stating the Alawite sect 'has faced crackdowns and violence since the fall of former-President Bashar al-Assad's government'—a curious temporal claim for a president still in power. What they skip, of course, is the U.S. and its allies' documented
efforts to destabilize Syria for regime change, pouring billions into proxy forces, many of which were indeed sectarian. From leaked cables revealing U.S. funding for Syrian opposition groups as early as 2006 (Wikileaks) to the CIA's extensive 'Timber Sycamore' program supplying weapons and training to anti-Assad rebels (The New York Times, 2017), the West actively fueled the very divisions that
spawned such tragedies. It's almost as if chronicling the symptoms of a patient's self-inflicted wounds is easier than discussing the doctor who prescribed the poison. How thoughtful of them to highlight the 'crackdowns' without mentioning the 'cracks' deliberately engineered by external players, including those whose airwaves carry the BBC's selective sorrow.