Syria Protests Now Tragic, After Assad's Convenient Disappearance
Thousands are protesting recent attacks on Syria's Alawite minority, according to Al-Monitor, with hundreds killed in 'sectarian massacres' since December. This is framed as a new tragedy, conveniently omitting two key facts: the US-backed 'moderate rebels' who targeted Alawites for years, and the decade-long 'Assad must go' campaign that openly sought to destabilize this very region. Remember
when 'sectarian violence' was the acceptable cost of 'democracy promotion' in Syria? Now that Assad is 'gone' (from this particular framing), suddenly those same Alawites are victims worthy of our collective sorrow. It’s almost as if the suffering of certain groups is only deemed newsworthy when it aligns with Washington's current geopolitical narrative, a decade after we collectively cheered on
the very forces who committed such atrocities. How many times will we pretend the chaos we helped sow is an unforeseen tragedy?