They did it again.
This time firing a rocket. Or was it a grenade?
Anyway. They did it again.
Like they did several times before attacking Lebanese ground or provoking Iraqi border posts they violated now Turkish territory.
I mean, what do they expect? Begging ,punish us, please‘ and therefore inciting a major regional crisis? Well, yes, that might be their intention, simply to marginalize their measures officially claimed to ,defeat terrorists‘ but in fact to crackdown the legal demands of the own population.
The actual result? Turkey‘s more than not amused about all that - understandable. Hesitating to aid the Free Syrian Army fighters with the needed arms and ammunition (yes, they need thedm to defend themselves and to protect the civilians against regime assaults) out of fear that they end up in the hands of extremist groups (yes, they exist but I refuse to label them as al-Nusra or al-Qaeda or al-whatever) - limitedly understandable. The United States being more or less convinced that any kind of arms, even forks, will end up in the hands of extremist groups - a bit too fatalistic, isn‘t it?
The general attitude of the Western alliance isn‘t as bad neutrally regarded: telling the little brother not getting provoked by the schoolyard bully to avoid an escalating armed conflict beyond the Syrian borders. But exactly that is irritating. The US school of self-defense taught us in the last decade to reply in a much stronger language regaining respect. Of course, the latest interventions weren‘t as successful as desired and have left the impression a handful of strategical surgeons are still required to repair the involuntary damages of the first units. But that reasonable behaving new black is still perceived as uncommon.
Above all it doesn‘t actually help the suffering Syrians on the ground steadily being confronted with regime air raids, army attacks and shabeeha excursions in random mass slaughtering. Estimated number of refugees on the run in-between the country: about one million. Those people are desperately seeking shelter and cannot understand that the whole world continues to politicize their fate philosophing months long around expensive conference tables.
Weird but true: trying to convince the public from the complexity of the causa Syria the powerful seem to have forgotten even the most simple things like granting humanitarian basic care in such a situation. From tents to medical aid it lacks almost everywhere, not only in Syria but also in the neighboring countries not being prepared hosting such an enormous amount of refugees. And the winter is knocking on the door, the nights are getting colder, most people simply had not the time to think about their wardrobe when they had to flee.
Everything seems both so incredibly complicated and so simply logical.
Still a greater faction is convinced of a calculated global disinterest in helping the Syrian people but a closer look offers the home-made dilemma all parties are now in. All the ,if-then‘ considerations, the waging of options and the strategical maneuvres weakened the ability to act unbureaucratically, to explore new ways of effectivity.
And there we are now, one and a half years later: the increasing killings of Syrian civilians - cynically declared as terrorists, doesn‘t matter what age - continues and the true culprits are still hiding in their ivory tower built on conspiracy myths. Whenever this ongoing nightmare for the Syrian civil society will end, the moral damage of the world‘s powerful is irreversible - for many generations. A dark chapter in the history book of political responsibility, no doubt.
