About the book
What happened in Syria can easily be replicated in any other part of this world (and is actually being replicated). It is very urgent that humanity understands what really has happened, HOW it happened and WHY, so we can stop this dragon from swallowing and burning our planet, one nation after the other.
Reflecting on the essays in this book, the reader may begin to understand not only what has happened in Syria, but also what is currently happening in Yemen, Libya, Venezuela, and will soon happen in Turkey, Egypt and many other parts of this world.
This book is not an informative documentation of the war in Syria;rather, it is more about the “mechanism of war” in our new world, taking the Syrian war as an essential example. It was intended to be kept as brief as possible, so the average reader has the time to go through it and understand what is happening in Syria.Most of what follows comes from my personal experiences, stemming from the 30 years I lived in Syria before the war, and the two years after it started, in addition to what I have witnessed in Turkey and Europe.
Only eye-witness accounts have the power to persuade others about what truly happened; which is still happening to this day. I hope that my words will reach you and help you to understand the ongoing Syrian crisis.
It is not the number of victims, the amount of moral and physical damage, or the length of war time it has taken to recognize the Syrian issues that makes it one of the ugliest wars in history. Actually, many more terrible wars in history have killed even more victims, destroyed more property and lives, and lasted longer than the Syrian war. What defines the Syrian war is that it happened at a time when the world was supposed to be “mature,” with apparent sophisticated international law systems implemented by nations and organizations, which assumed that such a war was no longer possible on this planet. The massacres in Rwanda or Kosovo happened before – while humanity was taking a “nap”. Times had changed and the international community “came of age” and its ethics became clear enough to make such cases exist only in history books. That at least is what the Syrians thought (or might be “EN-thought”?).The millions of demonstrators who headed out to the streets had enough reasons to act so against such corrupted and murderous regimes. However, they had before that enough reasons as well to refrain from such step for decades. They were not ignorant of their regime’s ethics (or actually “non-ethics”) and its unlimited brutality. Actually, they have been pretty aware of this regime and its allies’ non-moral standards since 1982, or even earlier. Neither were they so stupid that they miscalculated their arsenal versus their country’s
Reflecting on the essays in this book, the reader may begin to understand not only what has happened in Syria, but also what is currently happening in Yemen, Libya, Venezuela, and will soon happen in Turkey, Egypt and many other parts of this world.
This book is not an informative documentation of the war in Syria;rather, it is more about the “mechanism of war” in our new world, taking the Syrian war as an essential example. It was intended to be kept as brief as possible, so the average reader has the time to go through it and understand what is happening in Syria.Most of what follows comes from my personal experiences, stemming from the 30 years I lived in Syria before the war, and the two years after it started, in addition to what I have witnessed in Turkey and Europe.
Only eye-witness accounts have the power to persuade others about what truly happened; which is still happening to this day. I hope that my words will reach you and help you to understand the ongoing Syrian crisis.
It is not the number of victims, the amount of moral and physical damage, or the length of war time it has taken to recognize the Syrian issues that makes it one of the ugliest wars in history. Actually, many more terrible wars in history have killed even more victims, destroyed more property and lives, and lasted longer than the Syrian war. What defines the Syrian war is that it happened at a time when the world was supposed to be “mature,” with apparent sophisticated international law systems implemented by nations and organizations, which assumed that such a war was no longer possible on this planet. The massacres in Rwanda or Kosovo happened before – while humanity was taking a “nap”. Times had changed and the international community “came of age” and its ethics became clear enough to make such cases exist only in history books. That at least is what the Syrians thought (or might be “EN-thought”?).The millions of demonstrators who headed out to the streets had enough reasons to act so against such corrupted and murderous regimes. However, they had before that enough reasons as well to refrain from such step for decades. They were not ignorant of their regime’s ethics (or actually “non-ethics”) and its unlimited brutality. Actually, they have been pretty aware of this regime and its allies’ non-moral standards since 1982, or even earlier. Neither were they so stupid that they miscalculated their arsenal versus their country’s
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