My letter to the NYT: Roger Cohen and the NYT

I have always respected Roger Cohen, but no more! What a cold-hearted, genocidal, article!(read) How many Syrians must die under his prescribed "solution"? Does he even care?

One thing I cannot foresee is a situation in which the Israeli state acts so murderously towards either the Palestinians or the Lebanese, that it would prompt Roger Cohen to call for the arming of the victims of that Israeli aggression.

But Arab and Muslim blood is cheap, Arab and Muslim lives are subject to the geo-political games of the White Western Elite, to be snuffed out for the greater good.

All the so called categorical statements Roger Cohen makes, offered without proof, in this article, ultimately serve as excuses to enable a sick bloodlust. Why can't the Syrian opposition and the Assad regime be reconciled? Because they cannot. No mention of the outside powers that have prevented such a reconciliation. Why is Syria so different from countries that have ha civil wars and stayed together, like Lebanon, Iraq, Nigeria, Congo, South Africa, China, and the United States?

"Arm the Syrian opposition!1", cries Roger Cohen, Al Qaeda, and Saudi Arabia, but the Iranians, arming Hezbollah, and Hamas, in their fight against the occupation of Lebanese and Palestinian land by Israel, are pure evil?

And the nations that have tried to promote reconciliation, and an end to the violence in Syria are castigated as ruthless, and predatory, while Roger Cohen gets to sing for blood in the pages of the New York Times.