Thursday 15 November, 2012
Are Russian, China and Iran Losing Out to the Empire?
Hameed Abdul Karim
The crisis in Syria has put
Russia, China and Iran at loggerheads with the larger Arab population.
What the Syrians wanted was for
Assad to relinquish his power and transfer it to the people as early peaceful
protests indicated. For months the Syrians protested peacefully but when Bashar
Assad retaliated with violence, the protesters took to arms.
Perhaps President Bashar Asad and
his coterie of power hungry despots thought they could get away with a
slaughter similar to the one the late Hafez Asad inflicted on Hama by killing
over ten thousand ‘rebels’. But this
time, it seems, they have got it wrong. The point of time when Hafez Assad put
down an uprising was very different to the present day Arab world.
Today the Arab population is very
different. Youth have taken their destinies in their own hands and despite the
negative images presented about the happenings in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia
there is no way the new governments in these countries are going to go back to the
bad old ways of their predecessors. Revolutions don’t end with elections of a
new set of politicians. Rather they are processes that take time to grow.
