In a week that saw over a hundred dead men pulled from the Alpecco river, President Obama announcing $155 million in aid to the Syrian rebels, and possible retaliation against Israeli air strikes, the conflict in Syria was again all over the news with no real end in sight.
Syria has an interesting history with countless conquests and re-conquests, empires rising and falling, and people flourishing and vanishing. No wonder it is so hard to understand what exactly is best for the Syrian people when the people themselves are divided and the West, Russia and the Middle-East all have some stake in the country.
I came across a very good article by Malik Al-Abdeh about his understanding of the Syrian revolution. Check it out: http://syriaintransition.com/2012/03/01/how-i-understand-the-syrian-revolution/
Malik is an excellent independent journalist and his blog aims to offer as true a picture as possible of what is happening in Syria and why.
Whatever your opinion is of what is occurring in Syria, I think you have to remove yourself from your or our Western perspective. Whether military intervention will happen, I don't know, and whether or not it is the right choice doesn't matter as, the forces causing it would do it regardless. I just hope the death toll of civilians will not increase and that some sort of stability will transpire so that a peaceful outcome will result in democracy and human rights for the whole Syrian population.
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