Defending The Defenders

Here we are. Clashes in both major cities Damascus and Aleppo on an increasing level reminding on Homs six months ago. Partially freed zones and border control points in the North. The regime's territorial power is melting like an iceberg under the equatorial sun.

What looks like a progress for all the revolutionaries and us, their supporters, evokes in the minds of the global political leaders and their entourage sinister future scenarios built on the almost classical stereotypes the worldwide pro-regimers' front is placing continuingly.

As there are:

Attempts of criminalization of the Free Syrian Army: since the formation of the FSA not only defectors join the batallions and units of Bashar's armed opponents. In a situation like the one in Syria there is no complete control about what happens daily on the ground, and the world should even accept that incidents neutrally regarded as war crimes sometimes happen. But that is definitely not compatible with the increasing excessive violence the regime spreads since more than sixteen months up to now.

Causing rumors about massive weaponry in the hands of the FSA: Assad's armed opponents are lightly armed in comparison to the regime's weaponry stock. Even if some online pro-regimers are once in a while spreading breathtaking myths about heavy armed infiltrators crossing the border (summing up all reported numbers there must be about four million of them located actually in Syria), fact is that the regime army is still bigger - but not better - than the FSA. And you cannot defend a tank with a spoon. Besides your name is McGyver.

Blaming the Free Syrian Army for religious extremism/djihadism: the conspiracy myth is addressed to the Syrians inside, mostly the indecisive and silencing ones. The sectarianism myth is more targeted on the world outside Syria to cause continuously panic among the global powers. The Western axis shouts 'Hezbollah!' while the Eastern Block - which still exists, only a bit melted - is yelling 'Al Qaeda!' They can stop that, it's counterproductive and also careless concidering the number of murdered civilians they're apparently calculating. The honorable members of the FSA are seeing themselves as protectors of the Syrian people. And their job is actually to protect the people from those technically authorized as protectors of the people. And it's a big difference between calling for God to overcome fear and calling for God to spread fear.

Spreading fears of increasing sectarianism among the civilians: what seems to work on the military sector unluckily fits also to the civil society. Sowing mistrust among the different religions and selling it the world as naturally given is really a dirty little trick the regime uses to justify its' legitimacy. Poisoning myths are popping up and to underline them orchestrated bombings took regularly place. All to send a message we already heard from Saleh & Co: 'Either we or chaos.' What chaos? The usual chaos occuring in times of restructuring nations on their political top? Or the intentionally caused chaos the regime is arranging together with its' loyal wings, the mukhabarat secret service (I can't call them 'intelligence', impossible) and the shabeeha militia?

Accusing the activists and protesters being telecommanded by foreign powers: a lovely little lie. All the demonstrations are simply the expression to get rid of the regime. And not to advertise for some global interest groups. Most criticism rightly targeted Russia, China and the few other Assad loyal regimes but the hesitating stance of te UN, the Western nations and the Arab neighbors provoked constantly reactions of disappointment, of feeling left alone. All those proxy wars surrounding Syria are mantling the initial demands of the people - to regain freedom and dignity.

Officially hunting 'only terrorists': at all ages by the way. Not even a single word of the regime accepting the killing of civilians as a side effect of their terrorist hunt. They really don't care. Doesn't matter if they were playing football in the wasted streets or laying in the arms of their mother when the deadly bullets hit them. One terrorist less. That's the regime language. Kofi Annan might need some years time to accept that his goodwill plan was a dead-born child by the way.

In combination with the desastrous PR appearances not even any longer retouching the truth behind the regime curtain - the Oscar for dilettantism is granted to Addounia & Co - and the steadily growth of defections (The definition of a real defector is that he publicly speaks off the system he'd left, seceding in his own words, with his own voice) all in all it looks all but good for the dynastic clan and his cronies. Options left are described in one word.

Shortened.

Staying, trying to spread further terror and definitely facing a violent end. Or jumping on the last-exit-Russia plane.

Having the fearmongers' quire back again in my mind: 'Chemical weapons, oh dear, all those chemical weapons!' Sorry, those chemical weapons were already stored when the revolution broke out, that's not something new. After the first half year of the uprising we had to face the fact this regime will go far beyond extremes to retain its' predominance. The only problem it has is that the use of chemical weapons might also affect its' own clan members. They probably don't trust the protection measures - even those they created themselves.

So the only ones having a problem with the inevitable fate Assad and his close circle will face are not only the branded bad guys like Russia and China. It is the rest of the world leading nations too. It is an Arab League as well as other geostrategical organizations up to the UN also more a thorn in the eye than a glimpse of hope.

The justified demand for change, for regaining freedom and dignity is permanently overshadowed by concerns and doubts, fueled fears and most of all misleading propaganda. It's not only a war of weapons, it's also a war of rethorics. And a war of images.

Why using the term war so often? Because it was from the first moment the regime declared it to their own civilians a one-sided war.

Now the Free Syrian army is taking the chances to liberate at least partially freed zones (remember all the requests and demands for buffer zones desperately shouted out and being overheard?) including some checkpoints at the Turkish border the possibility of bringing urgently needed medics and food inside is given. When I got the last informations received right the regime has ordered a huge part of the troops around Idlib direction Aleppo (I bet the freedom fighters will give them a typical welcome). What theoretically means that even the courageous ones among the humanitarian help organizations might try to enter Syria.

They can't be everywhere.

Another propaganda trick obviously failing. The regime tries to compensate its' numerical inferiority hiring the most hateful criminals to commit randomly appearing massacres mainly in the countryside near a bigger city. Ordering lethal torture to detained minors. Arresting arbitrarily estimated 200.000 civilians. Placing rooftop snipers over street crossings. Shelling blindly civilians' homes until only a heap of ruins remains.

It has something from an amok run.

That is exactly the point where I refuse to comprehend our global political system. An amok runner has to be stopped before he takes as much victims as he can. And the Syrian regime under Bashar Al-Assad is a very slowmotion amok runner in comparison to the individual mass murderers. So why still thievishly tolerating (and therefore encouraging) the deranged guy with the pump gun in his hands instead of convincing him - even forcibly if it has to be - to end the attacks on civilians and neighborhoods?

I'm not buying the argument that there are those two sides, the one which will not and the one which cannot. Both sides have something in common: they failed bitterly to implant effective measures ending the regime violence. Who wonders the brave Syrians feeling left alone? To trust in the political powers and diplomatical ties emerged as shouting in the desert.

Now it's up to them to keep the will for freedom and the courage for resistance literally alive to finish what primarily began simply defined as toppling the regime and with it the whole apparatus. The sooner this happens the more potential victims of the regime violence can still be saved.