The recent punitive military strike against chemical Bashar in Syria by the trio of US, France and Britain, triggered by his 5oth time use of chemical weapon against his own people, has brought out to the open questions that have been begging answers.

Questions like, why the outrage for the method and not the crime of indiscriminate murdering of hundreds of thousands of the innocents?

What is the difference between murdering of defenseless civilians with the so called conventional weapons, which include dropping from helicopters barrels packed with nails and filled with explosive material, and murdering the same people with chemical weapons?

Leila Al Shami, a Syrian human rights activist, has just penned an article, which makes some in-your-face observation of the inconvenient truths.

The article is on the longish side, but very much worth the time to read it, here are some snippets:

Once more the western ‘anti-war’ movement has awoken to mobilize around Syria.

More than half a million Syrians have been killed since 2011. The vast majority of civilian deaths have been through the use of conventional weapons and 94 per cent of these victims were killed by the Syrian-Russian-Iranian alliance.

There is no outrage or concern feigned for this war, which followed the regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful, pro-democracy demonstrators.

A number of anti-war organizations have justified their silence on Russian and Iranian interventions by arguing that ‘the main enemy is at home’. This excuses them from undertaking any serious power analysis to determine who the main actors driving the war actually are.

The other major political trend to have thrown its weight behind the Assad regime and organize against US, UK and French strikes on Syria is the far right.

Today, the discourse of fascists and these ‘anti-imperialist leftists’ is virtually indistinguishable. In the US, white supremacist Richard Spencer, alt right podcaster Mike Enoch and anti-immigration activist Ann Coulter are all opposing US strikes. In the UK former BNP leader Nick Griffin and Islamophobe Katie Hopkins join the calls.

One thing is for sure – I won’t lose any sleep over targeted strikes aimed at regime military bases and chemical weapons plants which may provide Syrians with a short respite from the daily killing. And I will never see people who place grand narratives over lived realities, who support brutal regimes in far off countries, or who peddle racism, conspiracy theories and atrocity denial, as allies.”

With what Leila said in mind, take a fresh look at the lefties and the righties, you will find both sides are accomplices in the slaughters.

Above cartoon; criticizing selective outrage which only applies to chemical attacks, by Yaser Ahmad