A Letter to Bashar al-ASAD

Dear Mr. President:

Hey it’s all good. Not to worry, the rest of the world will keep hands off. If you want to kill off a few thousand of your own people, that’s none of our business. After all, it’s not like it has not been done before by your colleagues in that part of the world, no biggy. Besides you have your buddies with you, Russia, China and Iran all have experience with this kind of thing and with much bigger numbers, you have a lot of catching up to do Bashar.

I mean, who are we to criticize, you were “elected” were you not; the fact there were no other candidates notwithstanding.

If you are worried about moral outrage, don’t be, we all have a short memory and this too shall pass. Relatively speaking, at least you don’t rely on an 8th century legal systems to justify your actions, you are simply a tyrant and proud of it. By comparison beheading a person for adultery or apostasy or stoning a person to death or giving a child a suicide device to explode among innocents may be worse, but what do I know?

With over 20% illiteracy and 18% unemployment in Syria I’m sure you have to do something to keep things in order.

I think you made a mistake with the gas thing though, it’s too obvious; too much bad press you know. We in the West are getting all worked up and in the meantime, we don’t even know (or care) about all this:

Prior to the ongoing political uprising and violent unrest, Syria was principally a destination country for women and children subjected to forced labor or sex trafficking; women from Indonesia, the Philippines, Somalia, and Ethiopia were recruited by employment agencies to work in Syria as domestic servants, but are subsequently subjected to conditions of forced labor; some economically desperate Syrian children are subjected to conditions of forced labor within the country, particularly by organized street begging rings; undocumented Filipina domestic workers continue to be sent to Syria; the daughters of some Iraqi refugees are reportedly contracted to work as maids but made to be prostitutes or forced laborers; some Syrian women in Lebanon may be forced to engage in street prostitution and small numbers of Syrian girls are reportedly brought to Lebanon for the purpose of prostitution

The government does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; the government did not demonstrate evidence of increasing efforts to investigate and punish trafficking offenses provide protective services to victims, widely inform the public about human trafficking, or provide much-needed anti-trafficking training to law enforcement and social welfare officials (2012) — from CIA World Fact Book.


Here’s a thought Mr. President, just allow us to throw a few missiles your way (you already know where they are going), blow up a few building and a few people (that shouldn’t bother you) and all will be forgiven and forgotten in a few weeks. By October 1st we will be more worried about our new health insurance exchanges bringing socialized medicine to the U.S. any way.

One more thing Bashar, if I may be a bit personal, when you pray five times a day, what do you ask God for? At Isha do you really ask for mercy and forgiveness? Just askin.

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