By Jason Scott Jones, The Stream, March 10, 2025
Jason Jones is a senior contributor to The Stream. He is a film producer, activist, and human rights worker. He is also the author of three books, the latest of which is The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset.
Right this minute, unarmed Alawites and helpless Christians are being slaughtered in the streets of cities across Syria. An October 7-level terrorist atrocity, enabled by Syria’s new government, is happening in real time — which most media won’t cover. The hapless Europeans are blowing smoke, even blaming the victims for what’s happening to them. That’s why I’m writing you, Mr. President — because I know that you hate violence and war, and I believe you can stop the killing without deploying a single American soldier.
I’ll never forget one moment in your first campaign. It was during the fifth candidates’ debate for the GOP nomination, on December 15, 2015. You stepped up in front of the Emperor and all the little courtiers fawning over his new clothes, and said simply, “He’s naked!”
To be more specific, you punctured the huge Hindenburg pumped up with lies that the Republican Party used to call its “foreign policy.” For 13 years, since the run-up to the Iraq War, Americans had been gaslit with faked intelligence and wild conspiracy theories to urge us into regime-change wars and “color” revolutions to overturn foreign governments. (Remember how Saddam Hussein allegedly helped plan the 9/11 attack? How his mythical WMDs might cause a “mushroom cloud in Manhattan”?) …