US Senator: If Damascus Falls, Europe Won’t Be Far Behind
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As a new report detailed the devastation wrought upon Syria by four years of rebellion, a Virginia state senator who once thanked the Syrian government for defending Christians was worried about the fate of Damascus, the Middle East and Europe.
"Within a period of months after the fall of Damascus, Jordan will fall and Lebanon will fall," he said, adding that "ISIL" would then target Europe next.
Black is no stranger to the Syrian crisis. Last year, he wrote a letter thanking the government in Damascus for a "gallant and effective campaign" to liberate Christian villages on the border with Lebanon.
Furthermore, years of US interventions in the Middle East and elsewhere had resulted in vast numbers of displaced Christians in Syria, Iraq and the Balkans.
"If you look at the history of American involvement," since the first Iraq war, Black stated, "the one central theme has been that in each instance we've purged Christians from various countries." Christians who lived in Kosovo for over a thousand years "are gone, completely annihilated."
During the four-day pogrom in Kosovo 11 years ago, more than 4,000 Christian Serbs were driven out of six towns and nine villages. Over 900 houses and 39 churches were also destroyed by ethnic Albanian rioters.
The current conflict in Syria began in 2011, when the US-backed opposition began an armed rebellion against the Syrian government.
However, Black maintained that the Syrian government was effectively fighting against "ISIL" and protecting the remaining Christians of Syria. Its fall, he says, would let "ISIL" quickly seize Jordan and Lebanon, and continue its drive westward.
"I look at Syria as the center of gravity... for Western civilization," Black said, using the military strategists' term for a place or event that can determine the outcome of a war.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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