Why Syria is the Misunderstood Conflict

The Syrian Civil War has been butchered, but not by Bashar Al-Assad, but butchered by the Western Media.

This is because many of America's allies in the Middle-East would benefit economically from regime change in Syria, chief among them Qatar.

But make no mistake: Assad falling in Syria would cause more bloodshed, more instability and more terrorism than any previous decision made by the West in the Middle-East.

The West began their policy of destabilization quite by accident in Afghanistan. After Jimmy Carter blundered so erroneously in Iran, Ronald Reagan decided that in Afghanistan, he would put his trust in the allies of the region to wage jihad in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan continued this policy right until the end of his time in office, which ultimately helped the defeat of the Soviet Union, due in no small amount to the Mujahideen Arab fighters in Afghanistan.

The issue is that Afghanistan ended up ruled by the Taliban, who, in turn, sheltered Al-Qaeda and brought us 9-11.

This mistake was surely understandable and even can be condoned given the circumstance Reagan had been in. They were fighting the Soviet Union by all means necessary: handing Afghanistan over to radical Islamists was for the cause of ending the Cold War.

But the Iraq Wars have no such excuse.

Both wars on Iraq were appalling and guided by a principle of oil. America defending Kuwait against Saddam's Iraq was being involved in a conflict which presented no threat to United States' interest. All this Gulf War did was fuel extremism by putting American troops in the Arabian Peninsula to protect Saudi Arabia and other allies from Saddam Hussein, as well as give America an excuse to whack extensive sanctions onto Iraq, causing the deaths of thousands of Iraqis during the Clinton Administration.

But the second Iraq War was much worse. It has given us ISIS; not only so, but it gave America the gall to fund Al-Qaeda in Iraq IN SYRIA.

The guiding principles by which the war in Syria was fought by the West was on the side of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the most extreme and brutal Al-Qaeda branch of them all. This gave us ISIS.

The Syrian Civil War is tragic in that it is America funding the bad guys to defeat the better guys. Assad may be a dictator, but he is a secular dictator. Assad may be brutal at times, but his brutality is directed against terrorism and never for it. Assad's government prioritized the protection of Christians, Druze and Alawites at the expense of its own territory and resources. ISIS control Syrian oil because Assad prioritized not only the big cities, but also the Syrian minorities.

No one in the West believe things are better in Iraq thanks to the Iraq War. Yet even the Iraq War would have paled in comparison to America overthrowing Bashar Al-Assad in Syria. You think ISIS is big now? If Barrack Obama had thrown Assad out of power in 2012 when there was so much pressure for him to do so, ISIS would have had a capital in Damascus, not in Raqqa. It would have been appalling beyond any comprehension or belief. The genocides would have been extensive, and Russia would have, rightly, waged war on America for producing so erroneous an outcome.

However Obama, to his credit, did not remove Bashar Al-Assad and did wage war against ISIS in Syria. But his linked-to funding of Al-Qaeda in Iraq in Syria prior to that is unacceptable. He should never have chosen Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State, as she is equally responsible with George W. Bush for the creation of ISIS.

Am I exaggerating? Not remotely. It is one thing to withdraw troops from Iraq; it is another thing entirely to fund the terror organisation Iraq is struggling against in neighbouring Syria. Outrageous! If America gets out of Iraq, they should not proceed to destabilize the Middle-East further!

ISIS needed two bordering countries to create a Caliphate. A Caliphate can only be created by the destruction of borders, such as the Iraqi-Syrian border. Had George Bush not removed Saddam Hussein; had Obama not withdrawn from Iraq AND funded 'Al-Qaeda in Iraq' in Syria, we would not have ended up with ISIS.

Ideally, Bush should never have gone into Iraq. Ideally, Obama should have never endorsed funding terrorists in the Syrian Civil War. Obama was right to withdraw, but only with a corresponding unwillingness to fund terrorism in Syria.

Syria is misunderstood because America has fought on the wrong side. I hope the West never forgets this, and learns from its errors which almost cost the Middle-East its life.