Biased news reporting and propaganda

It is now 3 years since the conflict in Syria began and I am not sick and tired of reading and seeing and hearing the skewed reports of what has been gong on there. Before this conflict broke out the EU and other western governments were saying in Damascus how much progress Bashar Al-Assad was making in modernising certain aspects of Syrian society. At the same time there was a noticeable build-up of so-called "press" and "cultural" people with embassy affiliations, notably to the US embassy.

It is worth remembering here that Syria was the only non-confessional state in the region and that the Sunni majority lived peacefully alongside their Shia, Alawite, Ismaili, Druze and Christian neighbours.

Now the country is torn apart notably by interventions from outside i.e. Saudi Arabia (Al-Qaeda) and Qatar (Moslem brotherhood) who are fighting their own proxy war on Syrian soil. Turkey is also exploiting the situation   to its own ends They have turned the country into a terrorist camp where they are training terrorists with many thousands brought in from outside i.e. Britain, France, Belgium, Scandinavia, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and anywhere else where there are hotheads ready to plunge themselves and their families into violence and hatred.

The US plays a great role in all this and over the past decade or more they have been recruiting people to further their cause.  The Syrian participants in this conflict are mainly people who have their own agenda and are prepared to take up foreign offers if that will get them where they want to be.

What is abundantly clear to anyone who knows anything about the region is that, despite all its flaws, the current Syrian regime under Bashar Al-Assad , who was after all elected by the people, is the only one that can guarantee the rights of the minorities in the country. What would take its place does not bear thinking about as we can see from the terrorist held areas enforcing Sharia law in the terrorist.

When US representatives e.g. Obama and Kerry make statements about democracy and other professed aims, the very last thing they are taking into account is the welfare and wellbeing of the people of Syria and they should certainly take a look at their own domestic situation before making pronouncements about how others should govern their lives. They might also consider the domestic situation of their allies i.e. Saudia Arabia and Qatar which cannot be regarded as democratic by any stretch of even gthe most overheated imagination. 

The international media are their "Master's Voice" "reporting" on the situation in totally skewed terms and with a complete lack of analysis. I for one am tired of skewed, biased and uninformed (if we are to be generous) reporting or propaganda machines (if we believe that the press is simply another weapon in the war serving the interests of those fanning the flames).

Syria was an increasingly prosperous country before this proxy war began, but the task of rconstruction, when the times comes for it, will be an arduous and expensive one.  Even if we look at this conflict only from the perspective of environmental  destruction it is a totally reprehensible state of affairs.