Syria Falls to al Qaeda. What’s Next for Christians There? by Jason Jones & John Zmirak

By Jason Jones & John Zmirak, The Stream, December 9, 2024

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….  John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

If you follow the mainstream media, you’ve probably read stories about the plucky freedom fighters dubbed the “Syrian rebels” and heard that they just vanquished the forces of a wicked, dangerous tyrant, Bashar al-Assad. If you ever took John McCain seriously, you might have believed him when he vouched for these groups as “moderates.” If you watched the Republican presidential debates in 2016, you’d have heard all but three of those seasoned GOP leaders (Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump) agree that it was so important to America that these rebels prevail that the U.S. ought to shoot down Russian planes, risking a nuclear war.

Those rebels must be great guys, akin to the colonial militias that fought at Bunker Hill. They must be trying to establish some tolerant democracy and keep the Russian Bear from rebuilding the Eastern Bloc on the shores of the Mediterranean. And anyone who opposes them, such as Tulsi Gabbard, is likely to be a “Russian agent” who deserves to be tailed by federal marshals every time she gets on a plane. (That has been happening for more than a year and is still happening now.) …

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