MESOP : FREE SYRIANS COMMENTARY ON CIA’S TORTURE REPORT & THE HYPOCRITICAL WESTERN LEFT

Radio Free Syria: 11 Dec 2014 – A few words for the hypocritical Western Left which rightly condemns CIA torture while disregarding Assad’s genocide

There are a number of awful things about the CIA’s torture programme. The sheer inhumanity of coercion through pain, the blowback from the outrage it engenders, the way it undermines the universal prohibition against torture, allowing other repressive governments to justify their own brutality. This last isn’t helped by all those who will profess outrage at the Americans’ actions, but have nothing to say about the regime’s systematic terror in Syria, because it’s not important, because the main enemy is at home, because it’s all just another hoax enabling regime change in the Middle East.

Whatever the excuses, when Assad is gone, and the truth is plain to see, there will be a backlash against the Left for failing to show solidarity with the victims, in which the few who have sided consistently with the oppressed will not stop the wave of contempt brought about by those who have ignored Syria, stood on the wrong side, or thought it was just a part-time interest while they got on with their real political concerns. https://www.facebook.com/RadioFreeSyria/photos/a.382885705129976.91927.363889943696219/748823731869503/?type=1&fref=nf