The Better Revolution

While the vast majority of recent revolutions in the Middle East have been radicalized ventured seeking to displace moderate dictators, the unrest which is occurring presently in Syria presents a rather unique and rare opportunity to fundamentally change the anti-American nations with Soviet ties into a working partner to foster democratic change that will shake up the status of the region and encourage long-term stability.

Syria as a country has historically been outside of America's list of dependable allies in the Middle East. After nearly 30 years of President Hafez al-Assad's rule, the country was transferred to a brief interim leader before the late ruler's son Bashar ascended to the generational throne of power. And ten years later, he shows no signs of desiring to emphasize moderation, especially considering Syria's close ties with the former Soviet Union and the more liberlized image it maintains about the Middle East. 

The revolution however is a unique attempt which America can use to bolster better diplomatic relations with both the country itself and its souther neighbor, Lebanon. It is primarily through Syria and Lebanon that Saddam Hussein managed to hide his nuclear weapons, and the two nations regularly pose an imminent threat to Israel through their strategies of shipping weapons to Hizbollah and related terrorist groups. 

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More directly, a regime change in Syria would mean that the axis of radicalized powers surrounding Israel might finally be balanced to offset the rises of extremism in Egypt and Libya, as well as Iran. These nations have repeatedly posed a dramatic threat to international security, as well as the proliferation of human rights, and cutting their alliances would systematically reduce their influence to a great degree and guarantee further freedoms across the Central Eastern region.

Like other nations around it, Syria is critical to stability in the area, but it should not require the force witnessed in Iraq to bring it to its knees. The fear and imperialism of the al-Assads can finally be mitigated, but only if America is wise enough and acts to properly end this solidification of raw extremist power. We must act and be confident in the interest of the present day and generations of the future.

Jordan Wells

National Alliance Vice President for Policy