Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can create hurricanes. There is no doubt about that. However, they are hurricanes of fire and steel targeting his own people, and not one directed with the help of the Iranian allies against the United States. The American media outlets mocked and expressed surprise towards the announcement posted on the page of the Syrian Armed Forces News Network (non-official but loyal to the Syrian regime), regarding the fact that the resistance axis was behind Hurricane Sandy which hit the American northeastern coast by using a highly-sophisticated technology. And it is truly an announcement worthy of mockery and surprise. This report that was carried on the loyalist website, describing the hurricane as being a punishment inflicted by the resistance axis on those who attack Al-Assad's Syria and threaten its security, is not the first of its kind and is in no way unique. Indeed, a few months back, numerous loyalist websites carried stories on what they dubbed the Blue Jasmine Operation, featuring the accomplishments of the regime-affiliated intelligence services and armed forces in pursuing the spies of the West and the Arabs who were trying to sabotage Syria (naturally that of Al-Assad) and topple its national resisting regime. Numerous tales linked to the Blue Jasmine Operation were relayed, while their writers let their imagination run free, to the point where the tales of A Thousand and One Nights and the adventures of Sinbad and Al-Shater Hassan would appear to be extremely realistic. From a political and security angle, there is no value to the story regarding the Syrian regime and its allies' triggering of Hurricane Sandy or to the Blue Jasmine myths. However, the abstinence of the regime in Damascus, its media outlets and “intellectuals" from stopping these unbecoming fairytales, reveals another thing. For months now, the regime's television channels and newspapers have been invaded by analysts and experts specializing in putting forward tales that are no less inventive, regarding the reasons behind the revolution and the sides supporting them and the conspiracies being concocted against Syria. The latter thus used half facts and quarters of data and international reports in a childish way, in order to defend their viewpoints. Most of them have come from the neighboring country Lebanon, to teach the Syrians about the meaning of nationalism and the significant value of the regime governing them. These bits and pieces of facts conceal a childish way of thinking that is unable to face reality, the bitter truce and the dead end towards which Al-Assad's regime has led Syria, except by resorting to one's imagination and attempting to apply it to the palpable world and the facts of history, geography and culture. One of the less difficult questions at this level is the following: if the rejectionist axis can strike the United States with hurricanes such as Sandy, why can it not control neighborhoods that are at a stone's throw away from the presidential palace in Damascus? The answer to this simple question among others of the same kind, summarizes the difference between the Syrian people whose lively forces have decided to topple the regime by all available means, tools and alliances without waiting for obstructed foreign support, and a regime justifying its stay in power by its talk about necessities and visions that are only linked to the interests of the ruling clique and its foreign allies. Hurricane Sandy was not triggered by the Syrian command or any wise command in the rejectionist axis for that matter. As to the amazing security accomplishments, they are limited to the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of Syrians in detention camps and the killing of thousands in field executions, in mass murders and under torture. And while the regime is drowning Syrian society in violence and blood, it is left with no other way to exit its crisis but through its strategic experts and analysts who are drawing their tales from their shallow and sick imagination.
