There is a major stir in the world media because a young Syrian child was killed in the waters off Turkey when his family fled to avoid the civil war in their homeland. Unlike the almost 300,000 other people who have died in the Syrian civil war, this child had his picture taken as he lay face down in the sand of the beach where he washed ashore in Turkey. Suddenly, we are hearing again and again about this poor child. The only rational question to ask at this point, however, is "why does this child matter?"
Remember this:
1. More than four years ago, there were peaceful protests in a number of Syrian cities against certain actions being taken by the government of president Assad. In an attempt to stop the protests, Assad sent army snipers to lie in wait on roof tops and to shoot random protesters when their group came near. The random shootings and killings of individual protesters went on for months and got no reaction from the government of the USA, the other Western governments and the media. I would say the reaction was just a yawn, but it really did not rise to even that.
2. As the killings continued, the protesters did not stop marching. Instead, they began trying to fight back with the few weapons that they had at their disposal. Instead of tens of people being killed, the numbers grew to hundreds and then thousands. The Assad forces raised their level of violence. The Assad regime and its Iranian allies began using artillery, tanks, aircraft, and even poison gas against those who had risen to fight the attacks which Assad had begun. The only reaction from outside Syria was that Iran continued to send weapons and soldiers to help Assad kill more of his people. the terrorists at Hezbollah also started to assist Assad in his war against the majority of the Syrian people. Western governments and the media said and did nothing. To be fair, there were occasional statements by one or another western government that Assad needed to go, but that was the full extent of the support that the Syrians got.
3. When there was irrefutable evidence that Assad's forces were using sarin gas to kill thousands of innocent civilians, president Obama stirred from his lethargy. First he threatened to take action against the Assad forces. Then he quickly changed his mind and agreed to a deal which basically took the use of US forces off the table in exchange for an unverifiable promise from Assad not to use chemical weapons anymore. Of course, since that time, Assad's forces are again using chemical weapons, and Obama has done nothing about it. Obama won't even mention that the Assad forces are using chlorine gas against opposing forces. Through all this discussion of chemical weapons, the media was largely silent about the terrible costs inflicted on the Syrian people.
4. When ISIS appeared in Syria and began killing Christians, Yazidis, Druze and other non-Islamic peoples, there was again little said about it. Only when an American journalist was beheaded on video did the USA finally say that it would take action against ISIS. Of course, Obama arranged that action so that America did as little as is humanly possible to confront ISIS. Obama wouldn't even give those like our friends the Kurds weapons to defend themselves. The media pretty much ignored this too.
So why does the death of one more child matter. There have been almost 300,000 dead to date in this war. Many times that amount have been wounded. There are something like ten million refugees who wander the globe looking for a place to stay. And in all this, most of the media has been silent. Our president has certainly been silent. Why should one dead toddler change this?
We watch on our video screens the corpses of dead babies being chopped up for body parts by the ghouls at Planned Parenthood, but most of the media defends the practice and labels criticism of Planned Parenthood's equivalent of Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory as an "attack" on women. Millions of dead babies including many who could survive on their own outside of the mother is not even worthy of discussion, but one dead toddler in Turkey is suddenly a cause celebre in the media.
Don't get me wrong. I think that the death of even one child is a tragedy. I just find it disgusting that the media and the US government choose to ignore a tidal wave of death and to focus on just one child. What will we get next from the Obamacrats? Maybe a new hashtag? How about #BabysLivesMatter or maybe #DeadPhotogenicChildrenMatter ?
Remember this:
1. More than four years ago, there were peaceful protests in a number of Syrian cities against certain actions being taken by the government of president Assad. In an attempt to stop the protests, Assad sent army snipers to lie in wait on roof tops and to shoot random protesters when their group came near. The random shootings and killings of individual protesters went on for months and got no reaction from the government of the USA, the other Western governments and the media. I would say the reaction was just a yawn, but it really did not rise to even that.
2. As the killings continued, the protesters did not stop marching. Instead, they began trying to fight back with the few weapons that they had at their disposal. Instead of tens of people being killed, the numbers grew to hundreds and then thousands. The Assad forces raised their level of violence. The Assad regime and its Iranian allies began using artillery, tanks, aircraft, and even poison gas against those who had risen to fight the attacks which Assad had begun. The only reaction from outside Syria was that Iran continued to send weapons and soldiers to help Assad kill more of his people. the terrorists at Hezbollah also started to assist Assad in his war against the majority of the Syrian people. Western governments and the media said and did nothing. To be fair, there were occasional statements by one or another western government that Assad needed to go, but that was the full extent of the support that the Syrians got.
3. When there was irrefutable evidence that Assad's forces were using sarin gas to kill thousands of innocent civilians, president Obama stirred from his lethargy. First he threatened to take action against the Assad forces. Then he quickly changed his mind and agreed to a deal which basically took the use of US forces off the table in exchange for an unverifiable promise from Assad not to use chemical weapons anymore. Of course, since that time, Assad's forces are again using chemical weapons, and Obama has done nothing about it. Obama won't even mention that the Assad forces are using chlorine gas against opposing forces. Through all this discussion of chemical weapons, the media was largely silent about the terrible costs inflicted on the Syrian people.
4. When ISIS appeared in Syria and began killing Christians, Yazidis, Druze and other non-Islamic peoples, there was again little said about it. Only when an American journalist was beheaded on video did the USA finally say that it would take action against ISIS. Of course, Obama arranged that action so that America did as little as is humanly possible to confront ISIS. Obama wouldn't even give those like our friends the Kurds weapons to defend themselves. The media pretty much ignored this too.
So why does the death of one more child matter. There have been almost 300,000 dead to date in this war. Many times that amount have been wounded. There are something like ten million refugees who wander the globe looking for a place to stay. And in all this, most of the media has been silent. Our president has certainly been silent. Why should one dead toddler change this?
We watch on our video screens the corpses of dead babies being chopped up for body parts by the ghouls at Planned Parenthood, but most of the media defends the practice and labels criticism of Planned Parenthood's equivalent of Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory as an "attack" on women. Millions of dead babies including many who could survive on their own outside of the mother is not even worthy of discussion, but one dead toddler in Turkey is suddenly a cause celebre in the media.
Don't get me wrong. I think that the death of even one child is a tragedy. I just find it disgusting that the media and the US government choose to ignore a tidal wave of death and to focus on just one child. What will we get next from the Obamacrats? Maybe a new hashtag? How about #BabysLivesMatter or maybe #DeadPhotogenicChildrenMatter ?
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