Saturday, December 14, 2024

mr. trump, who appears to (bizarrely) read my blog,

you are right - syria is no friend of america. however, there are a lot of people in syria, in truth the majority of people in syria, that want to tilt towards the west. as an important part of the greek and roman world, syria has historically been a part of european culture and has generally had a western cultural identity. syria was unfortunately conquered by weird arab foreigners with strange customs in the 7th century as a consequence of the collapse of roman power in the region due to a bad round of the plague and a brutal war with iran (which has been there for a really long time), and has slowly been colonized by them over the last 1300 years, even when it has been a province of turkey, which has been the more frequent truth over the last 1000 years. syria fought very hard against the arab conquest and held off for centuries, but the region in general eventually fell to the turks (who were illegal immigrants from china that took over the region by sheer numbers and adopted the arab religion when they did). fundamentally, syrian culture does not tilt towards islam or towards arabism, it leans towards it's roman past. this is also true of lebanon, but it is not true of iraq, which was at times controlled by greeks and romans but has more often been controlled by iran and which is outside of the roman cultural sphere. this fact is a fundamental reason that lebanon and syria have seen so much turmoil since the fall of the turkish empire; it is stuck between a people that tilt westwards, and colonizing forces to it's south and east that are trying to control and assimilate them.

syria is not america's friend right now, but there are people in syria that want to be friends with america. it's important that a competent american administration find these friends of america - and friends of western civilization - in syria. they exist. they are plentiful. they need america to reach out a helping hand to aid them out of a mess, which is going to lead them into societal and civilizational collapse and result in the enforcement of barbarism through sharia law. the syrian people do not want that outcome, in aggregate. most syrians are secular, moderate and not very religious - like europeans are. that is why the foreign powers in the region want to prevent a democracy in syria, which is what assad was trying to create but wasn't able to due to the instability created by the civil war.

mr. trump, i want you to realize this truth and apply it more generally to your second term: a strong america should be looking not just to keep old friends, but also to meet new friends.