Unpleasant Parallel Between Syrian Uprising and the Spanish Civil War

Some rabid jihadists megalomaniacally styling themselves as "The Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant" just murdered one of the top leaders of the Free Syrian Army- the real Syrian rebellion (as opposed to outsiders looking to seize control of another failed state) at a "checkpoint" they set up. This followed the murder of a dozen of his men.

It is reminiscent of the Spanish Civil War, when the so-called "communists" (Bolshevik ideologues under the iron control of one Josef Stalin) waged war on the other left forces battling to defend the Republic against the traitorous fascist military rebellion led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Needless to say, having one side in a war tearing itself apart like that guarantees its defeat.

The Islamists who are now in effect waging war on the Syrian opposition to Assad care much less about overthrowing Assad than do the Syrian rebels. Thus they can afford the failure of the uprising. Much worse woe is in store for the Syrian majority.

The despicable standoff attitude of the U.S. and its Western lackeys greatly contributed to this situation. Had they armed the Syrian opposition before the Islamist psychopaths had gotten a toehold, things may have been different. For two years fear of Islamists was the excuse to stand aloof. (Along with fear of "being dragged into another war," which is nonsense. Providing arms in no way puts one on a slippery slope to sending in combat troops, or doing anything else for that matter. Amazingly, the bourgeois commentariat in the West keeps parroting this bogus line.)

Now, two years on, all Obama has done is said he'll dribble in a few arms- but they haven't even started doing that yet! (Which doesn't stop dingbat leftists from screeching about how the U.S. is "arming Jihadists in Syria." Even some otherwise intelligence people have made these claims.)

So what comes to pass is a stronger Jihadi movement, a crushed Syrian uprising, and a lot more bloodshed and suffering. (Assad was at his weakest at the beginning of the rebellion, when Obama started his two years of dithering.) Once again, we see that the immoral path is NOT the realistic one, that morality and realism in fact follow the same road. The fecklessness of outside powers is yet another example of their shameless cynicism and utter lack of ethics. Meanwhile, Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah are bold and forceful in supporting the tyrant.

The U.S.' view is that it didn't have a dog in this fight, since it didn't have a client or puppet organization in Syria. If the U.S. actually gave a rat's ass about human rights, democracy, people's aspirations, and all the other gush they pump out in huge volumes, incessantly, they would at least have given the Syrian people the wherewithal to have a fighting chance to win their struggle.