The sudden collapse of Bashar al Assad’s Syria came as quite a surprise. I’d thought he successfully fended off rebel maneuvers, and the 15,000 or so CIA-funded terrorist-rebels in Syria had been demoralized to the point of giving up. And out of nowhere, the rebels win, and Assad and his family are whisked away to Russia. There is consolation in the knowledge that one of the last remaining royal families in the Mideast is safe following a US-backed coup. But we know what comes next for Syria, just as it came for Iraq and Libya. Chaos and mass blood-letting. Syria is now a terrorist’s playground, and its too painful to think about what will become of Damascus.
The Mideast was better off with Saddam, Gaddafi, and Assad. They maintained order and relative peace, preserving their culture and identity. They held the chaos in abeyance. But now they’re gone, and the chaos filled the void. The United States popped the cork on the genie’s bottle, and now those nations have returned to a prehistoric state.
Where is the memorial to these extinguished desert monarchies? Does the world see their value, now that they lie in dust? Late state democracy, red in tooth and claw, has been unleashed on these former kingdoms. Is democracy nothing more than mob rule, with armagaddon implied, lest the mob get its way? And the mob, prehistoric, annihilationist, the Freudian death drive at the wheel, will do to Syria what it has done to every other formerly great nation in all of recorded history.
