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An excerpt from this eye opening interview, and one which is printed in large print, so it is easy to read:

So there weren’t any protests? Were they made up?

When the so-called “revolution” started there were indeed few who went out in the streets to ask for a reform. And indeed our country needs a reform. But the West and the Arab countries, which did not like Syria’s political direction, used those peaceful protests to infiltrate some armed extremist Muslims and this is how the crisis began. Anyone who asks a Syrian will immediately find out that at the present Syria is full of foreign terrorists from 38 countries. Some of them are even from Europe, Australia, US, Great Britain, while the majority comes from the Arab countries and from Turkey. Fire arms from Israel, France, US and Great Britain were found in the hands of the terrorists. The official army for sure doesn’t use them. A lot of my friends that were killed, they were killed by foreigners, some of them didn’t even know how to speak Arab, and the ones that use Arab they in fact use a different dialect than the Syrian dialect, like Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt etc. My heart breaks every time I hear in the mass-media that the Syrian army kills civilians, or that president Bashar Al-Assad kills civilians whereas we, the Syrians, see with our own eyes who does the killing and who kills our soldiers. We see and we hear these lies and we cannot do anything. Why? Because the West, especially US, France and Great Britain, want you to believe what they say. They talk all the time in the name of the Syrians, but it didn’t occur to anyone to ask the Syrians how they themselves view the situation.


http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/64199.htm

Russia is surely on the right side of this conflict, but I am not sure how accurate it is to say that Russia cares, or that America does not. Russians may well feel some affinity with the Syrian people owing to their long alliance, but certainly the citizens of Western nations, to whatever extent that they support a war on Syria, support it because they care about the people they believe to have been the victims of chemical attack. It is difficult to view Putin's support of Assad as anything more than calculated strategy, which is no better than the warmongering of Western nations, and only the other side of the same cynical coin.

My Congressman is a Lt Col in the Army Reserve who has served several tours in the Middle East. He has come out very strongly against American intervention. One week ago I had opportunity to speak privately with him and, after I commended his stance, expressed my fear that the Christians of Syria will suffer no matter who ultimately takes control. It is only a question of how severely and at whose hands.

Sen. Claire McCaskill has said Putin is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. He is trying to establish to the world that he is relevant. It is more about him than about Syria.