Solidarity with victims of terrorism

Following the appalling terrorist attacks on Paris in November came a great wave of solidarity and support for all those affected. The terrorists were linked to jihadi groups in Syria, and it made we wonder how much more atrocious the terrorist violence in Syria. Clearly the victims of terrorism in Syria, now in excess of 250,000, need our solidarity and support. I made up the make shift image to express this.

There is however one problem with this solidarity and support for Syrian, despite its greart intentions. From the western perspective the violence in Syria is supposed to be the fault of Assad. This is our excuse for funding terrorists and “unauthorised violence” in Syria. It turns out however that the terrorists are the problem, not just for Assad but increasingly ourselves. It is the terrorists it turns out that Assad is fighting, and has enlisted the help of Russia to do this. Unfortunately this points to us ending our support for terrorism in Syria, and supporting the fight against terrorism ourselves. But this raises the problem who will fight Assad when the terrorists are gone. The Syrian people themselves are committed to a peaceful internal solution to this. The point is that no one wants to fight Assad, people want to fighting to end so they can return home. Only the western powers want a repeat of Hussein and Gadaffi… and that is probably because they don’t live there.