Who Is Lying About Syria?

The more I investigate what is happening to Christians in Syria the more confused I become.  Accurate reporting about what is really happening in Syria is hard to find out.  It is not fake news that is the problem; it is lying news that is being reported in the American news media.  I just read an article about the young boy in the video showing children being gassed in Syria.  In an interview with the father and boy, they told a different story.  The boy said, he was lured into the hospital with cookies and then sprayed with water.  He was in the basement with his mother, who said they ran out of food when they heard some noise outside.  “Somebody was shouting that we had to go to the hospital, so we went there. When I came in, some people grabbed me and started pouring water over my head."

The father told a different story than the news media gave.  He said, “I went to the hospital, walked upstairs, and found my wife and children. I asked them what had happened, and they said people outside were shouting about some smell and told them to go to the hospital. At the hospital, they gave dates and cookies to the kids."

One of the medical workers, who was reportedly on shift at the time, said he was surprised by the sudden influx. “Some people came here and washed people. They said: ‘Chemical attack. Chemical attack.’ We didn’t see any chemical attack symptoms,” he added. He did, however, say that there were many people with respiratory problems because of dust from recent bombings in the city.

So now what am I to believe?  Unlike Iraq where the Syrian government has recovered territory, the Christians are returning, rebuilding, and trying to begin again.  This rebuilding cannot succeed as long as  the US government keeps bombing the country and supporting the rebels.  Is this latest bombing an attempt to allow the insurgents to escape as some Syrians believe.

Why am I so concerned about Syria?  The attitude toward Christians in the Middle-East has changed in the last few years.  Where Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived side-by-side, that is no longer the case.  There is a real hatred toward Christians that is being developed around the world.  My concern is how soon will it become the norm in this country to persecute Christians.

The attitude of our government in the Middle-East is not pro-Christian.  How soon will the same position become reality in America?

As an American Christian, we should not be comfortable with the US government invading countries all around the world.  We have not been given the real reason why we are in Syria.  I have heard many times we are fighting ISIS in the Middle-East so we will not be fighting them here in America.  I find it strange that that is the same reason Russia is giving.

You may have heard that Russian troops are in Syria to prop up a ruthless dictator, Bashar al Assad, who uses chemical weapons against his own people. But the reason Russian troops went into Syria was to fight ISIS (a.k.a. the Islamic State or the Caliphate). There were hundreds of thousands of ISIS fighters in Syria. Something like half of them were from Russia or from former Soviet republics, and the Russian language was as common within ISIS as Arabic. The Russians wisely decided that it was safer and cheaper to stamp out ISIS in Syria, rather than wait for it to spread to countries further north and closer to Russia. Saving Syria from destruction was a welcome side-effect, but the self-interested goal was to be proactive in protecting Russian lives.

Here again, who is tell the truth?

During the Iraq War, we heard the story of "Chemical Weapons" being used.  It may or may not have been true.  I rather think that it was true due to an article by Norm Dixon in 2004, where he wrote, On August 18, 2002, the New York Times carried a front-page story headlined, “Officers say U.S. aided Iraq despite the use of gas.” Quoting anonymous US “senior military officers,” the NYT “revealed” that in the 1980s, the administration of US President Ronald Reagan covertly provided “critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence knew that Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war.” The story made a brief splash in the international media, then died.

While the August 18 NYT article added new details about the extent of US military collaboration with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during Iraq’s 1980-88 war with Iran, it omitted the most outrageous aspect of the scandal: not only did Ronald Reagan’s Washington turn a blind-eye to the Hussein regime’s repeated use of chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers and Iraq’s Kurdish minority, but the US helped Iraq develop its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs.

We are now hearing the same story in Syria.  It seems that chemical weapons are only useful in incitement of a military response, to accuse one’s enemies of committing atrocities, to serve as a false flag.

The recent fake chemical attack in Syria’s Ghouta looks like someone wanted the bombing to resume.  Has the US government fallen prey to the propaganda of the ISIS rebels?  Just for asking these questions I open the door of being un-American and a supporter of Putin, but that is not the case.  When things start falling apart for those whose agenda has been questioned or disrupted, who has supported failed military actions, has put the country in economic crisis, and even claim the Russian's stole the election they need to find a scapegoat.  If the investigations that are going on now were carried out in the last administration, we may not even be in Syria today.  The Bengazi connection with the Syrian rebels would have been exposed, and our mission to stop ISIS would have taken a different direction. 

My concern is that in the weeks to come we will find that there was no chemical attacked and that President Trump actions were uncalled for and irrational.  President Trump will be made out to be a trigger happy, incompetent leader, who should not be in office.  I guess if I am having a hard time finding out what the actual truth is, maybe President Trump is having the same problem.

In the years to come we may find that like Iraq, the Syrian rebels were supplied chemical weapons by the US government to incite a war with Iran.

We need to get out of Syria while we can before it becomes another Afghanistan or Iraq.

May God protect our Christian brothers and sisters in Syria.