Are We Doomed to Forever Wars? by Jason Jones

By Jason Jones, Crisis Magazine, Dec. 11, 2024

Jason Jones is a film producer, author, activist, popular podcast host, and human rights worker. He is president of the Human-Rights Education and Relief Organization (H.E.R.O.), known for its two main programs, the Vulnerable People Project and Movie to Movement.

After Biden’s Regime Change in Syria, Trump Can Still Save the Middle East from “Forever Wars”

Syrian Christians and other minorities throughout the region have well-established reasons to worry about the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The toppling of the Syrian government was sudden, performed by militants with ties to Al Qaeda and ISIS, and looked exactly like another of the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s proxy regime-change wars—which in the past have again and again led to the rape, slaughter, and ethnic cleansing of minorities in nations like Iraq and Libya.

Speaking out against that kind of cynical violence-by-proxy has been a hallmark of President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy rhetoric—and I have no doubt his humane attentiveness to the concerns of Middle Eastern peoples played a vital role in his recent reelection. After all, it’s why Syrian and other Middle Eastern ex-pats in the U.S. voted for him in record numbers. …

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