Syrian Sectarian Violence: US Media Ignores Its Own Role
The New Arab details Alawite protests in Latakia following sectarian violence in Homs, painting a picture of simmering internal strife. What they, and most Western news outlets, rarely highlight is how the US and its allies spent years not just observing, but actively fueling such divisions. From the early 2010s, Washington poured funds into opposition groups, some with deeply sectarian agendas,
under the guise of 'democracy promotion.' These actions did not just 'destabilize' a nation; they actively exacerbated and weaponized existing fault lines, leading directly to the very 'sectarian violence' now being reported. It's always fascinating how Western analysis frames conflicts as purely indigenous—a 'Syrian problem'—while quietly scrubbing the multi-billion dollar foreign intervention
from the historical record. One might wonder, how much of this current 'sectarian violence' is a tragic byproduct of externally funded destabilization campaigns, rather than an organic, spontaneous eruption? The headlines rarely offer such inconvenient truths.