Newsweek reports that “Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad [the recently deposed Syrian president] belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and local reports.”
This is a man with blood on his hands, a radical Islamist with a history rooted in both ISIS and Al-Qaeda who has long despised Christians and sought their eradication. Yet, the mainstream media and even the United Nations have bent over backwards to “whitewash” his image, painting him as some sort of pragmatic reformer.
Meanwhile, the bodies of Syrian Christians and Alawites pile up, and the West’s silence is deafening. This is not just negligence — it’s complicity, driven by a media that hates Christians and a failed neoconservative foreign policy obsessed with regime change, no matter the cost.
Thank God for Secretary of State Marco Rubio. On March 9, 2025, he issued a blistering statement:
“The United States condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, that murdered people in western Syria in recent days. The United States stands with Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities, including its Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Kurdish communities, and offers its condolences to the victims and their families. Syria’s interim authorities must hold the perpetrators of these massacres against Syria’s minority communities accountable.”
Rubio’s words cut through the fog of media spin, naming the perpetrators and standing with the victims. It’s a rare moment of clarity from a government too often swayed by neoconservative delusions.
This is a textbook failure of establishment foreign policy. For decades, neocons in Washington — think tanks, pundits, and politicians — have pushed an obsessive agenda of intervention and regime change. Iraq, Libya, now Syria: topple the dictator, install “democracy,” and watch freedom bloom. Except it never works. The vacuum left by Assad didn’t birth a moderate utopia — it unleashed hell in the form of Al-Jolani and his jihadist hordes. Christians and Alawites are paying the price for this reckless idealism, just as Iraqi Christians did after Saddam’s fall.
Assad was a monster, but he was a predictable one. Neocons ignored that wisdom, betting on untested “rebels” who turned out to be worse. Their faith in intervention blinded them to the reality that not every dictator’s fall is a victory for liberty, especially when the alternative is a radical Islamist with a bloodthirsty grudge against Christians.
