Actually, Butler, it’s all our fault. If only we had not opposed US and UK bombs on Syria back in 2013, Syria would have now been liberated and well on its way to being a little Switzerland in the Middle East. You know, just as Libya has become after the US “liberation.”
Never mind that before the US launched its “regime change” policy against Syria (with US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford admitting presence of jihadists from the very beginning — as he was meeting with and encouraging them) there were no refugees fleeing the country.
So to re-cap: 1) US (and allies) unleashes total hell on Syria to overthrow Assad, with many/most fighters being foreign jihadists; 2) Assad fights back against foreign-backed insurgency; 3) resulting civil war produces circumstances not unlike those in Libya after “liberation” yet somehow Assad manages to hold off advance of al-Qaeda and ISIS; 4) with Syria back to near stone-age levels, anyone who can leave is trying to leave.
US neocon conclusion: refugee crisis all non-interventionists’ fault for not backing regime change that produced refugees in first place.
4:22 pm on September 2, 2015
