Maybe I‘m not the only one asking myself in the meantime the percentage relation between the dove and the falcon in each one of us. I mean all those of us starting witnessing, supporting, experiencing a peaceful uprising in the beginning getting meanwhile out of control thanks to the berserk going regime bunch. I guess we all began following the increasing crowd of chanting protesters through the dove‘s view: enlightened by the spark of the people‘s will for change in the MENA region we believed in the power of non-violent resistance calculating more or less with a few victims in the own rows.
A few. Regarding that now under the circumstance that this year‘s murdered civilians during the Ramadan was more than eight (!!) times higher than last year it appears in a moment of bitterness naive and ridiculous.
So how influential has become the falcon in us after nearly one and a half years frustration and disappointment facing the avalanche of diplomatical desasters and political failures? In my case I honestly admit that the bird of prey in me has become very influential. My full loyalty is with the revolutionary forces, the freedom fighters, the FSA. Well, nobody is as perfect as a Manichean mind desires, there‘s always a variety of greytones, of course it‘s not per se excluded that actions or reactions might happen not according with the military codex or the Geneva conventions. But to throw the few crimes the revolutionary forces‘ branches are responsible for into the same-size scale like the crimes the regime and its‘ cronies are responsible for, sorry, that comparison is a joke. A disgraceful joke considering especially the child martyrs tortured slowly and icecold to death. Alright, under that aspect I‘m a falcon, yes.
Does that mean that all my reflections about non-violent resistance are worthless now?
I believe not. Because my heart still beats faster watching a fresh uploaded video of anti-regime protesters raising their voices but not any arms. The difference is: I became that falcon as a natural given reaction witnessing the increasingly cruel violence.
This regime simply has to become removed. And it will become removed. There is no space for dialog after all what happened. In seventeen months the regime has slammed practically all doors the world‘s powerful opened. Instead of admitting that the international diplomacy‘s the hardest part and that no one has to expect miracles this extraordinary league of gentle but ineffective negotiators we experienced in the case of Syria is still trying to sell the global spectators their suggestions as successful business.
Well, it might perhaps stop one day the bloodshed but this will be the day
1) the head of the regime becomes annoyed of the daily killing spree (quite impossible),
2) the head of the regime dies a natural death (might take a very long time in the worst case until that happens)
or
3) there are no civilians left to kill (if the exponential increasing martyrs‘ count continues that moment might come in a future not as far apart).
Truly, only a very small number among us had expected that it takes as long as it is today. For sure we were a bit blue-eyed in the beginning, believing in a certain attitude the regime top had to possess in our point of view: insight. But, oops, wrong horse. Until today the clan and the responsibles for the one-sided war on the own civil population aren‘t showing the slightest touch of insight being confronted with the abnormous crimes against humanity they‘re responsible for. They‘re hiding themselves in a jungle of myths and conspiracy theories neglecting totally the thousands over thousands of tragedies they caused. That‘s why they have to be stopped. That‘s why they have to be removed. They are natural born falcons with all the bad habits we‘re able to imagine.
What brings us back to the origin thought of this post, the question how many falcon a dove has to handle still being a dove. To answer that let‘s leave the path of the Aesopian tale.
Entering Kafka.
According to the circumstances part of the doves has become falcons after an increasing part of falcons discovered the doves inside themselves (the growing amount of defectors from the regime army). Both are acting
1) to protect the doves from the merciless regime falcons and
2) to undermine the territorial influence of the regime falcons - even by attacking them well-coordinated guerilla-style (due to the lack of their ammunition).
The regime itself sees only falcons, result of their own conspiracy myths. Foreign falcons, jihadi falcons, whatever falcons, potential common falcons, they all have to be eliminated, without exception, just to make sure that it works the regime hires above all the crème de la crème of the most disgusting mercenaries, preferred from the Iranian regime and the Hezbollah.
And the kafkaesque UN? Adapts almost obviously the regime‘s view offering it the global public as concerns. As worries. As stuff which has to be discussed extendedly as if a cease-fire has become reality and everyone has all the time in the world to decide what might happen as next.
The problem is there is no cease-fire. The regime is willing to crackdown the justified uprising and the revolutionaries; the free Syrians, the civilians are no longer willing to let themselves slaughter like sheep.
The refugees need urgently space inside the country to get humanitarian and medical aid. Freed zones have to be created, as long as it‘s required declared as no-fly zones to prevent the civil population from helicopter gunship or jet fighter attacks. Besieged areas have to be liberated to grant the inhabitants staying there access to food and fresh water. These and all the other measures to defend successfully gained liberated territory won‘t get realized through five o‘clock tea small talks, nope. And the free Syrians won‘t for sure follow the advice ,Stay as doves, let yourself slaughter, maybe two or three years more, can‘t predict, thumbs up‘.
No. Better becoming falcons when it‘s necessary turning back into doves when it‘s over. That‘s the quest. Believe me, I‘m glad when it‘s done but until then I‘ll stay solid as a rock together with all those also becoming falcons because the world refused to help the doves.
„You‘re not a falcon.“ - „But yes, I am!“ - „Forget it. No way.“ - „So why?“ - „Ducks are no falcons.“
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