We are watching a country disintegrating before our eyes. We are witnessing the redrawing of the boundaries of the Middle East along religious lines that has no place for minorities or for justice and tolerance.
The Arab Spring is transforming into an Arab Winter as the dreams of the original female and male protestors of Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Libya are being lost in a tsunami of violence.
A massive
population exodus, fanatical religious fundamentalism, ethnic cleansing
and genocide are happening due to the
actions of countries that talk loudly of peace and democracy but are in fact
the warmongers, and arms merchants/manufacturers that are making huge
fortunes from this war.
An Islamist Saudi Arabia, a monarchical Qatar, a theocratic Iran,
a resurgent nationalist Russia, a repressive Turkey, a profit hungry EU and a corporate-controlled US are arming the advocates of hate, torture
and mass killing. They are creating a nightmare world of Mad Max that is leading to the formation of repressive warlord fiefdoms guarded by private sectarian armies. A
relatively modern intact country is been bombed back to the Stone Age.
This is what happened across large parts of Iraq after the US invasion.
The
only solution is a total arms embargo on all participants in the
conflict and an all party peace conference involving all sides including
Iran.
Click here to read my article of three years ago on the Disappearance of the Christians from the Middle East, a community that represented 25% of the region's population less than one hundred uears ago.
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