Thursday, December 01, 2011

Non-violent opposition?

The France-based president of the Syrian National Council, Galioun (4th from R), the Turkey-based Syrian army defector and the leader of self-proclaimed Free Syrian Army, Col al-Asaad (2nd from L) and other Syrian dissidents hold a secretive meeting in the southern Turkish city of Hatay.

How dare the documentary, How to Start a Revolution (about how Gene Sharp triggered the Egyptian "revolution" and the Syrian "revolution" in addition to several other "revolutions") still promote the notion of non-violent Arab uprisings?  All Arab uprisings have had violence in them, in Egypt or Tunisia or Yemen and certainly Syria. For how long will this myth continue.  Damn, the Syrian opposition now has its own Army and they still want to maintain it is a non-violent uprisings.  Seen above, is Mr. Burhan Ghalyun of the Syrian National Council, meeting with Riyad Al-As`ad, commander of the Free Syrian Army.  Yet, I am not in any way opposed to the use of armed resistance against Israel or tyrannical Arab regimes--all of them, provided that resistance does not resort to foreign intervention or to sectarian killings or to religious zealotry.