PJM Exclusive: Video from Syria’s ‘Great Friday Uprising’ (Content Warning, Continually Updated)
Of course it’s our fight; very little in the world has not been touched by American power at this point. We can’t have our cake and eat it too. Let’s not act like Western power structures don’t prop up and legitimatize power structures everywhere else in the world. The people of Syria need the love, compassion, prayer, and as much support as can be given by their brothers and sisters the rest of the world over, and let’s start with telling our oligarchs we are fed up and are not willing to fight fire with fire anymore (as is being done in Libya), we are too smart to think violence can end violence, and we’re not blind to the economic and political motivations of action vs. lack of action (witness Libya vs. Saudi, Bahrain, Yemen). What makes anyone think we can profit from the misery of others, and when they fight back against our enablers it’s “not our fight”?
