Retort to Scott Creighton’s Essay 'Assad Regime is the Root of All Evil'

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Omar Sindi, Washington | Exclusive to iKurd.net

Retort to Scott Creighton’s Essay on August 7, 2015; “Assad Regime is the Root of All Evil {-} in Syria Because He Stands in the Way of Greater Kurdistan.”

In defense of old depleted unworkable colonial system in the Middle East’s region wretched regimes (Ba’athist Regime in Syria) adopted policies, particular (Assad Family Role in Syria) unrewarding past and present methodologia and approaches to address the long- term the Kurdish question in both Syria and Iraq in the mitigated Scott Creighton’s self-justifying opinion against Omar Sindi’s Essay on March 29, 2015; Scott Creighton-Willyloman: “Don’t taint Kurds Aspiration with corruptions!” My response on March 29, to your article was, don’t mix apples and oranges, because the aspiration of a nation (Kurds) and corruptions with kleptocracy are two different agendas; clearly the content of that article was anti-Kurd liberation movements in general, pro the status quo partiality of retaining unethical and immoral of Sykes & Picot Agreement of March 1916, the divvy of Kurdistan –the defense of autocratic system in the region. However, your essay on August 7, 2015; “Assad Regime is the Root of All Evil” contains key arguments that can be abridged and further debated:

There are many drivel arguments in your essay on March 7 as well; albeit I shall touch a few of them, which are critical to my article.

1- You’re critical of my letter to the President of United States Barack Obama back in 2012. “The Kurdish leaders have tried their best to advance America‘s aims in Iraq” Mr. Sindi!

Mr. Creighton: well, I just want to assure you that my writings are my own; it’s under no one’s influences that I write. But the two articles on the Kurdish issues by you make me wonder! However, the United States along with their coalition partners overthrew the dreaded man Saddam Hussein, including his sadistic Ba’athist regime, and along his abettors; over four thousand soldiers died, not to mention how many injures, and the billions upon billions of U.S. dollars spent to reconstruct the whole Iraqi infrastructure, and with help international communities, brought experts to write a new constitution for Iraqi; unfortunately, the neighboring countries, with help of their proxies inside Iraq, didn’t let that effort succeed.

Scott, I’m pretty sure you are well aware of the “Marshall Plan” –after World War II, the U.S. sent aid to European nations, in today’s $130 billion value (Officially the European Recovery Program) in particular to Germany and American aid to Japan after World War II, “Occupation and Reconstruction of Japan” led by General Douglas A. MacArthur staged extensive political, economic, and social reforms. Scott, at that time, the leader of both countries, Germany and Japan, worked with American leaders based on the U.S. interests, but what Germany and Japan achieved today politically, socially, internationally, would not have been achieved under Adolf Hitler –NAZI and Hideki Tojo- Imperial Japan. If you are being critical and berating my letter to U.S. President Obama, on that sense, so be it!

Mr. Creighton, let me share with you, one of my childhood’s exposure to the sad event, and there are many sad events! In the late 60’s I was about 10 years old living in a village in Southern Kurdistan-Iraq, the ongoing conflicts in between the Ba’athist regime in Baghdad and Iraqi Kurds under the leadership of late General Mustafa Barzani, dispute over Kurdish rights. People in that village were fearful that there might be air raids by Baghdad regime over their defenseless village; so the decision was made to evacuate it, so people started packing up their belongings; my parents were no exception, and me being the eldest child in the house, I had to help my mom and dad. Lo and behold, a fighter bomber is flying over the village, and started dropping the bombs, at that moment everybody become his own man to protect his own life, as I ran, vividly remember the screams, crying children, voices of other people.

Somehow, I luckily survived. Years later, in March 1988, when the dreaded man Saddam Hussein and his Ba’athist regime unleashed chemical weapons on the Kurdish city Halabja -Iraq, consist of nerve gas, master gas, cyanide, etc. those children couldn’t run, nor could hide, or could breathe, and they didn’t know why they dying. And in August 2013, during the Syrian Civil war, the chemical attack on Ghouta, Syria, by Bashar Assad and his regime, those children neither could run, nor they could hide, the most awful, the children couldn’t breathe. After World War I, so many promises were made by the world leaders not to allow these inhuman weapons to be employed, especially on the civilians; however the snub history has repeated itself over and over. The Most regrettably, those who employ these kinds of weapons, often it has been called “the poor man‘s nuclear bomb” gone with impunity.

2- “The problem here is, Mr. Sindi, it would appear that the people living in northern Syria (and many living in Iraqi Kurdistan) don’t particularly wish to do the same.” Well, Mr. Creighton, I don’t know where you received this kind of un-authentic information, maybe you are referencing those Arab pro-government thugs, who were brought on the Kurdish land. I’m sure you are familiar with the grim vision Mohamed Talib Hilal, the Minister of Post Telegraph, in 1963, the project of ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Syria. In 1764, Danish Writer Carsten Neibuhr who visited to Aljazira wrote about five Kurdish tribes and one Arab tribe in this area.

There is no denial in Iraq, especially during Saddam Hussein’s reign, the Arabization policy was in full force, specifically in oil rich areas such as Kirkuk; there is no denial, there have been vigorous attempts made by various regimes attention in this region to change the ethnographic and demographic of Kurdistan. Scott, perhaps you are hinting to “Trail of Tears” it is a very well-known expression; two mistakes doesn’t make one right, Kurdish people have not sought superiority over any other people or transgressed; The Kurdish phobia must be stopped. In fact, there are empirical evidences that the other people‘s governmental apparatus in this region have for generations imposed their own will on the Kurds nation, transgressed.

Despite as the war rages on with nihilistic ISIS/ISIL-Daesh, both autonomous regions in South Kurdistan – Iraq and Rojava Kurdistan-Syria, have better security, and living standards relative to the other parts of Iraq and Syria. The root of evil ongoing turmoil still goes back to the “Sykes & Picot Agreement” ill-advised and ill-planned for this region in which they traded chaos with chaos, on the native people. However, this abhorrent mayhem was expected to befall from these autocratic regimes either from its own miscalculation or from the physical and mental collapse of its leader, or from endogenous or exogenous pressure; the inflexibly dirigisme methods skullduggery project the Root of All Evil- the realpolitik, which stands in the way of all people; is now affecting the whole regional population in the form of collective punishment.

Omar Sindi, a senior writer, analyst, and columnist for iKurd.net, Washington, United States.