The Iraqi government put the death toll in the country throughout seven years at 70,000. In Syria, this toll has exceeded 7,500 by far in about a year according to the estimates of the United Nations. A new massacre was committed in Al-Rastan where the victims were killed cold-bloodedly, without any mercy. But what about the referendum? According to the Russians, it points to the fact that Syria is on the right track! In the meantime, the slaughters are ongoing and the price of the [Arab] spring is the highest in Syria. And in Libya, following the [Arab] spring, the revolutionaries are still killing and getting killed with 100 victims that have fallen in one week. Abdul Jalil is still ringing the bells amid fears of seeing the country divided. The dictator is dead but freedoms and stability are still distant. Dictatorship is dead, but security is hijacked by the militias. In Iraq, the government is not concerned about the [Arab] spring, although it is accused of practicing the dictatorship of bullying following eradication, and the booby-trapped cars are claiming the lives of Sunnis and Shiites. The civilians are thus falling as though it were an ordinary act, while all the deputies – who are insisting on acting as the people's voice – see no problem in the allocation of $50 billion to purchase armored vehicles to protect them against explosions. They are spending $50 billion while many Iraqis are living without electricity or employment. In Syria, more killing is witnessed in the most costly [Arab] spring – unless we believe the Russians' wisdom, which perceives the bloodbath as being a step in the right direction, or believes that the bloody massacres are the product of the YouTube and Facebook conspiracy to destroy the forts of rejectionism. So, should we turn toward the Americans' “wisdom” and knowledge? Once again, they are condemning the massacre and burning the cards of the opposition via suspicions surrounding its collaboration with Al-Qaeda. Hence, the tragedy of an entire people is limited to lists featuring the names of the killed from all the regions, among those perceived by the authority as being foreign tools. The Syrians are no longer wondering why the West intervened to save the Libyans and did not respond to their calls for help. Indeed, the reason is certainly not related to Libya's situation following the revolutionary spring and the autumn of the militias that are refusing to integrate the institutions of the newborn state. Over there, Abdullah Naker, the leader of the most prominent militia, set the conditions of the trade-off: higher salaries, medical insurance, homes, cars and marriages for the single armed men! Based on a simple calculation, Libya's liberation from dictatorship becomes equal to Naker's conditions, and the revolutionary authority becomes under the control of the rifles on the street. Great is the discrepancy between the defense of human rights and the shares of the revolutionaries and their leaders. The Arabs' spring is still at its beginning and the prices are high, as though bills are being settled over many decades after the killing of their history. In the meantime, the majority chose survival to earn its stay, and opted for a loaf of bread over freedom. All the sides are partners in the crime featuring the confiscation of the mind and the extermination of people's humanity and dignity, although Ali Abdullah Saleh excluded himself, thus bidding the palace farewell while giving the impression that his three-decade term was one of freedoms and stability, and that the revolution was provoked by the envious! The killing “stock market” is flourishing in Syria, but all we have to do is believe the Russians' “wisdom” and be reassured by the reformatory measures, i.e. the partisan plurality that does not prevent the crushing of the “conspiracy.” In post-revolution Tunisia, the members of Ennahda and the Salafis are competing over people's minds and hearts, starting with the freedom of stocks and capital to the freedom of women to wear the niqab in universities. And just as it is being done by some of the ministers of Abdelilah Benkirane's government in Morocco, some are attempting to give the impression that the flowers of the spring have blossomed and that there is no longer any poverty, unemployment or economic troubles. Consequently, what would prevent the “purification” of creativity from corruption and the prosecution of music and arts? In the post-revolution Egypt where the Islamists are playing the tune of the prosecution of the past and are awaited by the birth of a Constitution and democratic institutions, the Copts' concerns are exceeding creativity and reaching the level of the [explosive] mine of inequality. What is certain is that those concerns cannot be eliminated by the Muslim Brotherhood with intentions alone, as well as with the equal citizenship slogan. These are some samples of the outcome of the Arab spring. The death toll in Iraq seems to be close to the number of victims of the massacre in Syria, with the only difference being that the Baath party in the Land of the Two Rivers was buried years ago. Over there, the American occupation could not plant the seeds of democracy even if it wanted to, while freedom in Syria is more expensive. In Homs, there is no immunity against killing and the Syrians are calling for help, but in vain. The prohibited killing is undeterred, while those rejoicing over their spring in more than one Arab capital are picking their brains in search for the boundaries of the permitted and unpermitted creativity. Who will show “fairness” to some in “cashing in” the price of the revolution?
