Hmm... To MANIF Or Not To MANIF...
As everyone knows, there have been yet more rumors of war going around - this time, Syria is the target. We're going to bomb Syria because Syria is bombing Syrians. Makes sense. Let's help them kill each other all the more efficiently - the American way! Yup - it makes absolute sense.
Of course not!!! Thus, people have been gathering to denounce the true motivation behind Western intervention in this situation (particularly American intervention: three guesses what it might be now... Think ''viscous substance'' and you'll be real close...!) and one such ''MANIF'' will be held in a place that doesn't matter at all (thus, you can bet that nobody will pay any attention to it, back where the disastrous decisions are made...) and it's going to happen in a mere couple of hours from now, as a matter of fact; EASTERN TIME, that is...
Anyone up for these exercises in futility, in the meantime...? Hmm? Anybody?
Actually, participating in such things accomplishes ONE THING - and one thing only: it entertains and nurtures HOPE, something we all need simply to go on living. We like to feel and believe that we have fought the good fight, also - and that we have stood up for the right thing.
In this particular case, things can be deemed to be quite unto a keg of ammo that can burst into a much greater blast than the regional conflict it is at this time. Confined within the borders of Syria, it is nearly impossible for outsiders, westerners, to discern which side is in the ''right'' there; foreign intervention appears as the worst idea there could ever be, especially given the highly complex web of alliances set-up over that part of the world. Geopolitics is the new dirty word of the modern world: it has been so for decades now... In this particular situation here, one can easily imagine the most apocalyptic scenario unfolding following a foreign intervention - particularly an American one, of course. Any number of possible scenarios can come out of it, in fact: and each possible chain of events bodes only terrible news for everyone else, not just Syrians. The average American might protest against an intervention not to avoid war but really in a typical ''let them kill each other off'' repulsive attitude - but those in the know, those with better discernment, want no such war because of the possible repercussions of such a conflict, that would be nothing like the ''intervention'' in Irak... most likely. Many perceptive observers have likened this highly dangerous situation to 1962's Cuban Missile Crisis as it is the closest we're getting to a potential World War III in a long, long time...
Protesters make their clamor heard for PEACE... But they fail to see that their outcry has little and no chance to be heard by anyone in a position to do anything of significance towards that end. And if they seek international aid in order to achieve JUSTICE for the victims of the senseless massacre going on in Syria right now - dream on, folks. Hundreds of massacres have taken place throughout the world in the so-called ''modern era'' - and none have ever been punished, in truth. Examples remembered by some, now, in order to sound the alarm of the ''never again'' variety in the hearts of some (or, perhaps, of an ''oh, not again'' type, really...) include another case of Syrian casualties: over 750,000 Syrian Assyrians murdered by the Turks during what was, officially, the Armenian Genocide that cost the lives of roughly millions of Armenians... Like now, in the present turmoil that has Syrians massacring Syrians, it was a case of tribes that know each other well settling things between themselves... And what about the time Armenians massacred hundreds of civilians in Azerbaijan in 1992...? What of the time a so-called diplomat (he hailed from a hellhole totally devoid of class - so it is no surprise that he was such a failure at this, as he) helped a full-fledged genocide take place in 1994, supplying the ammo to the madmen there? There was no ''JUSTICE'' either before, after and certainly not during those times of chaos and unrest - as so many died and the perpetrators were, oftentimes, able to escape our meek notion of ''justice''. And there sure as hell-will-burn-forevermore-in-a-Lake-of-Fire-of-coldness was no ''PEACE'' anywhere either - international intervention or not. Many escaped our so-called sense of ''justice'' - through death itself! They didn't meet ''justice'' - not yet, they haven't! Oh, but they will; one day, they will meet a most awesome Judge - the only competent one there is!
Poor protesters, who have not learned a single lesson from history: there shall be no peace nor justice as long as man resolves the madness of man... And Only God Knows if those who were massacred were not as guilty as those who massacred, too...!
And yet, protesters stubbornly call for PEACE - in the name of ''humanity'' and a form of ''unity'' of it that defies human basic behaviour as we know it...!
To quote a certain famous madman (...) --- ''no peace...!''
But you can carry on protesting, protesters... And assorted ''manifestants'' alike...!
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