Why Syria Is Such a Mess - Todd Strandberg - http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html
Syria is a nation in a state of disorder. The fighting started with a civil war which had the primary focus on removing Bashar Hafez al-Assad from power. Four years later, infighting between rebel groups and the invasion of ISIS has resulted in a situation that can only be described as total chaos.
The Pentagon has such a poor assessment of Syria; it recently used an expletive to sum up affairs in that nation. Our military has good reason to hold to a negative view of Syria. For the U.S. the Syrian theater has been an endless series of policy disasters.
The worst misstep was our support for Islamic militants linked to Osama bin Laden, which brought about the emergence of the "Islamic State" (ISIS). Former senior State Department Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, recently published a memoir confirming that White House officials made a "willful decision" to support al-Qaeda affiliated Jihadists in Syria-despite being warned by the Defense Intelligence Agency that doing so would likely create an "ISIS"-like entity in the region.
Another one of our disasters would be comical if didn't have such a deadly outcome. The Pentagon spent millions training "freedom fighters" to combat ISIS. Once they were trained to supposedly engage the enemy, a so-called friendly rebel group called Division 30, it promptly killed most of and captured the rest of the unit.
For months, the U.S. tried to get Turkey to join the fighting in Syria. When Ankara finally agreed to join U.S.-led efforts to fight Islamic State, the Turkish military was supposed to make the battle against the extremist group more effective. Yet within days, Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, bombed not just Islamic State forces but also with even greater fervor, the one group showing some success in keeping them at bay: the Kurds.
It is an open question if Syria still exists as a nation, and yet we have the added absurdity of Russia and Saudi Arabia arguing whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has future in a peaceful Syria. Speaking after talks in Moscow, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir reiterated Riyadh's stance that Assad must go.
"A key reason behind the emergence of Islamic State was the actions of Assad who directed his arms at his nation, not Islamic State," Jubeir told a news conference after talks with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "Assad is part of the problem, not part of the solution to the Syrian crisis. There is no place for Assad in the future of Syria," he added.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov maintains that Assad must stay. Moscow has wasted a lot of money and resources on the Assad family, like a gambler betting on his favorite race horse. Despite the losing streak, Russia claims that their support for Damascus will eventually turn the tide and lead to the eradication "terrorists."
The reason why Syria is a mess is because of Islam. There are probably 20 political/military groups in that nation fighting for power, and they all have the Koran as their operating guide. President al-Assad is a ruthless dictator who used nerve gas against his own people, but compared to the Islamists that wish replace him, he might as well be George Washington.
Western governments have endless amount of optimism when it comes to the Islamic world. The U.S. alone has invested over $2 trillion trying to make nations like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya into model states. Despite failure and after failure, we refuse to consider the possibility that a strong secular government is the best path toward stability.
Egypt has proven that a mixture of Islam and politics doesn't work. Mohamed Morsi, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood was the first democratically elected head of state in Egyptian history. Democracy in the hands of Islamists is like heroin in the hands of an addict.
As soon as the Muslim Brotherhood came to power they were prone to corruption; the murder of political rivals and the persecution of religious minorities. After General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, stepped in and conducted a coup d'état against Morsi, order was restored and Egypt was spared the carnage that has beset other Arab nations that dabbled with Islamic rule.
The only hope for Syria is a leader that can put the boot on the neck of these various Islamic groups. Bible prophecy seems to say that Syria may be doomed to be a battleground from here on out. Damascus is the only city that has not been heavy damaged by the fighting, and Bible scholars know it is the one city prophecy predicts will be completely destroyed.
"The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap" (Isaiah 17:1).
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