Has the actual reality on the ground still something in common with the origins of the revolution?
A justified question regarding the lack of unity Bashar al-Assad's counterparts are presenting. Let me figure this out by summing up the different streams and players out there:
1) The FSA. The biggest problem with the Free Syrian Army is that actually each and everyone impartial from the goals following can brand himself/themselves as FSA branch. There's no control over the fighting parts 'in the name of the FSA' and that leads to the desastrous situation that looting thugs and criminal minds are more or less terrorizing some regions and neighborhoods in Syria causing a more and more general rejecting stance towards the gesh-al-hor. Even if there exist some special units to investigate crimes in their own rows they are not able to overlook all katheebas fighting all over the country. This lack of structure is a bigger threat than the regime guards: and the regime responsibles know that, it's one of the cards they are holding in the backhand during the pokergame about power. Those calling themselves the 'friends of Syria' are not interested in supporting the Free Syrian Army to get an effective structure because this would mean that they have to take more responsibility for the FSA movement inside Syria and they don't want that for sure. The hard-working part for the FSA is it to build up an effective structure on their own which reaches even the smallest katheeba units on the landside - a kind of Sysiphos work but after two years of tenacious resistance it is high time to install such a structure before the liberation fight will become an eternal struggle.
2) The Islamists/Salafis/Religious Radicals. The most known wing of that faction is actually the Jabhat al-Nusra, a more than suspicious unit working more against than with or for the FSA and getting infamously known for terrorizing secular revolutionaries as well as liberal freedom fighters for being 'not Muslim enough' to gain a respected place in the common caliphate they want to install after Bashar al-Assad's downfall. From one terror reign to the next one described in one sentence. But the suffering, exhausted population is after two years of witnessing death and destruction in continuity in the meantime willing to accept each helping hand not really proving to which body this hand belongs, what real aims and purposes this body might have. Fact is that such extremists abusing the religion for their own selfish goals - in some cases back-upped by foreign powers trying to imply their own interests on Syrian ground - are counterproductive acting towards the original principles of the revolution: regaining freedom and dignity. They aren't interested either in real freedom or in dignity for all, they only want to embed their way of repressive ruling.
3) The Kurds fighting under the label of the PKK. I don't know what kind of fishy deal Bashar al-Assad has made with the Kurds but their behavior in the recent year is all but being part of a united Syrian front against the regime. In contrary, especially the FSA has now to fight in the Northern parts of Syria the armed PKK/Kurd katheebas instead of the regime batallions. And there are no signs of coming together fighting united against the gesh-al-nizam. The behavior of the Kurds is symptomatical for the lack of unity in the rows of the uprising Syrians.
Regarding all those tendencies Bashar al-Assad and his allies can calmly lean back simply watching the revolution destroying slowly itself. From time to time a handful of Scud missiles fired into the neighborhoods to show the humanity: 'Hey, we are the bad guys, we're still there and all you can do is watch and complain about our ruthlessness but that's all, and one day you will have forgotten what we are doing actually because that's the tide of events in this world ..'
Call me a traitor of the revolution, like you did before to those expressing their justified concerns, call me an enemy of the freedom striving Syrian people, like you did before to those announcing their well-founded constructive critic when this revolution turned towards the tattered chaotic actual state we have to witness in the meantime, but the failure of reaching waheda, unity has killed in my eyes the original revolution. And not only in my eyes ..
The regime has to pay the price for their crimes, that's for sure. And I would never defend one of their infamous actions towards the Syrian civilians. But the innocence of the Syrian revolution is lost since there are influental parts profiting from the stalemate, turning the uprising into a bloody war business ..
A justified question regarding the lack of unity Bashar al-Assad's counterparts are presenting. Let me figure this out by summing up the different streams and players out there:
1) The FSA. The biggest problem with the Free Syrian Army is that actually each and everyone impartial from the goals following can brand himself/themselves as FSA branch. There's no control over the fighting parts 'in the name of the FSA' and that leads to the desastrous situation that looting thugs and criminal minds are more or less terrorizing some regions and neighborhoods in Syria causing a more and more general rejecting stance towards the gesh-al-hor. Even if there exist some special units to investigate crimes in their own rows they are not able to overlook all katheebas fighting all over the country. This lack of structure is a bigger threat than the regime guards: and the regime responsibles know that, it's one of the cards they are holding in the backhand during the pokergame about power. Those calling themselves the 'friends of Syria' are not interested in supporting the Free Syrian Army to get an effective structure because this would mean that they have to take more responsibility for the FSA movement inside Syria and they don't want that for sure. The hard-working part for the FSA is it to build up an effective structure on their own which reaches even the smallest katheeba units on the landside - a kind of Sysiphos work but after two years of tenacious resistance it is high time to install such a structure before the liberation fight will become an eternal struggle.
2) The Islamists/Salafis/Religious Radicals. The most known wing of that faction is actually the Jabhat al-Nusra, a more than suspicious unit working more against than with or for the FSA and getting infamously known for terrorizing secular revolutionaries as well as liberal freedom fighters for being 'not Muslim enough' to gain a respected place in the common caliphate they want to install after Bashar al-Assad's downfall. From one terror reign to the next one described in one sentence. But the suffering, exhausted population is after two years of witnessing death and destruction in continuity in the meantime willing to accept each helping hand not really proving to which body this hand belongs, what real aims and purposes this body might have. Fact is that such extremists abusing the religion for their own selfish goals - in some cases back-upped by foreign powers trying to imply their own interests on Syrian ground - are counterproductive acting towards the original principles of the revolution: regaining freedom and dignity. They aren't interested either in real freedom or in dignity for all, they only want to embed their way of repressive ruling.
3) The Kurds fighting under the label of the PKK. I don't know what kind of fishy deal Bashar al-Assad has made with the Kurds but their behavior in the recent year is all but being part of a united Syrian front against the regime. In contrary, especially the FSA has now to fight in the Northern parts of Syria the armed PKK/Kurd katheebas instead of the regime batallions. And there are no signs of coming together fighting united against the gesh-al-nizam. The behavior of the Kurds is symptomatical for the lack of unity in the rows of the uprising Syrians.
Regarding all those tendencies Bashar al-Assad and his allies can calmly lean back simply watching the revolution destroying slowly itself. From time to time a handful of Scud missiles fired into the neighborhoods to show the humanity: 'Hey, we are the bad guys, we're still there and all you can do is watch and complain about our ruthlessness but that's all, and one day you will have forgotten what we are doing actually because that's the tide of events in this world ..'
Call me a traitor of the revolution, like you did before to those expressing their justified concerns, call me an enemy of the freedom striving Syrian people, like you did before to those announcing their well-founded constructive critic when this revolution turned towards the tattered chaotic actual state we have to witness in the meantime, but the failure of reaching waheda, unity has killed in my eyes the original revolution. And not only in my eyes ..
The regime has to pay the price for their crimes, that's for sure. And I would never defend one of their infamous actions towards the Syrian civilians. But the innocence of the Syrian revolution is lost since there are influental parts profiting from the stalemate, turning the uprising into a bloody war business ..
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