Hannibal Qaddafi

Let’s face it, folks. The jihadist agenda is a priority in Syria; the rest you hear is Saudi propaganda. The Qaeda branch is establishing its own agenda, in Syria while arse-lickers such as Amanpour are whistling Dixie. For God’s sake, jihadist extremists—and they are all extremists, make no mistake about that—are seizing towns, replacing crosses on churches with black flags, and holding classes to teach Syrian children about the importance of battling “infidels,” meaning anyone who is not a Sunni Muslim. Public executions of Alawites and Christians are common by men walking around in masks, but back here at home all we hear about are Assad’s chemical weapons and how we should not repeat Neville Chamberlain’s mistakes. As they say in the Home of the Depraved, is this for real or what? Paid fighters from Chechnya and other parts of Europe are committing terrible atrocities in northern and eastern Syria, and we’re talking about a gentleman with a nice mustache who waved a piece of useless paper in an airport long ago.

The best, however, is one Dexter Filkins, who writes for a New York magazine that takes itself more seriously than God. This guy Filkins blames the whole mess in Syria and even Iraq on some poor Iranian slob called Suleimani. I don’t know what Filkins is smoking or sniffing, but for his own sanity he must change dealers:

To save his Iranian empire in Syria and Lebanon, he (Suleimani) has helped fuel a Sunni-Shiite conflict that threatens to engulf the region for years to come.…

Like George W., who was given a history lesson by the Israelis and the neocons in Washington and decided that Saddam’s fall would turn the Middle East into Palm Beach and Monte Carlo combined, our man Filkins has decided that Qasem Suleimani is the bad guy. If Mossad, say, can get rid of Suleimani, we shall be going to Damascus and Latakia and Beirut and Hama for the holidays instead of crappy places like Gstaad and Zermatt. The funny thing is, it’s the other way around. The Iranians were helping Bush attack the Taliban after 9/11, then some neocon told Bush Iran is in the “Axis of Evil,” and you know the rest.