The Syrian Arch Bishop was reported today to have been tortured, murdered, and left in a ditch. This brutal and barbaric act has no justification and is the epitome of the worst within what most likely is the Free Syrian Army. Since President Assad lost his grip on power in Syria and a civil war, covertly sponsored by the United States, broke out, religious minorities have disproportionately suffered under the fighting. In particular, Christians in countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq have suffered immeasurably. In some cases complete ethnic cleansing of the ancient Christian populations have occurred leaving the surviving few as displaced refugees far from their homes. This is the result of American interventionist policy.
Many will and should ask what we can do to stop the bloodshed and wanton killing of Christians and others. However, the better question would be to ask what we can stop doing that is causing the killing of innocents. Those in the know have long known that US has had its hand in the upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa, most notably in Libya. This policy of intervention to topple regimes was accomplished by supporting many of the same Islamists we as a nation have been fighting for a decade. The result of arming and unleashing these bands of jihadists, sadists, criminals, and terrorists was the deaths of thousands of innocent lives. Most recently, the death of the US Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were added to this tally. The US is both lying and hypocritical when it comes to these civil wars. To illustrate the con, the Department of State overtly condemns the deaths and bloodshed while the Central Intelligence Agency covertly sponsors those doing the killing and the Department of Defense secretly prepares to kill the winner all while the defense industry gets a continuous infusion of “bailout” blood money to keep the fighting going.
Both President Obama and Mitt Romney must recognize that our policy of intervention is going to cause much greater harm to America and has to be averted. During the foreign policy debate neither candidate showed an interest or aptitude for preventing further bloodshed and ending our destructive policies. As Syria collapses and pulls the region into greater bloodshed and war, mark my words, the US will use it as an excuse to intervene to “stabilize” a situation we in fact created. This will no doubt cost many more American lives and dollars.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-10/25/c_123871679.htm
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=16041
