Letter

In response to Where is Assad now?and why do the worlds worst men get away with it?

Perhaps reading the truth might answer some of Barb’s questions

No doubt Barb Dadd writes with the best of intentions but linking Bashar al-Assad to some of the world’s worst villains is wide of the mark. Assad was a victim of the United States’ wrong-headed desire for regime change to benefit its national resource exploiters to the detriment of the host country.

To that end it armed rebel Muslim extremist groups and set them to undermine the Assad regime. Russia supported Assad (who headed a secular Christian country).

But with the aid of US weaponry, the Muslim extremists were able to oust Assad, replacing his regime with a Taliban-esque ragtag government of religious zealots who are now killing every Christian (or non-Muslim) they can find, brutally.

Most of the death and destruction attributed to Assad’s forces was caused by the US supported insurrectionists. In the process they produced another Afghanistan. Well done to the US. Again.

— Richard Creswick from Virginia, via Darwin