[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Hussain Abdul-Hussain [@hahussain](/creator/twitter/hahussain) on x 111.3K followers Created: 2025-07-18 17:12:12 UTC Today, a personal reflection. I’m exhausted. Another day, another massacre in the Middle East—this time, Medieval radical Islamists targeting Syria’s Druze. Rape, mass murder, children decapitated and burned, homes destroyed. The world will urge “all sides” to de-escalate, equating attackers with victims. Israel tries to protect the vulnerable, only to face the world’s favorite pastime: Blaming the Jews. I've written about war for decades. My first article appeared in Lebanon’s Annahar in 1994. I don't know what to say anymore. I survived the Lebanese Civil War’s terrors and know the fear and helplessness firsthand. Children trust their parents, who reassure them everything will be okay, but the kids see through the facade. I watch videos of Druze families fleeing in cars, and I know exactly what they’re doing. The mother clutches a bag with essentials—IDs, cash, family jewelry. The father hides a gun or dagger in the children’s luggage, in case he will have to rely on his instincts and defend his younger ones. When a kid in Lebanon, I saw fathers humiliated and beaten at checkpoints, reduced to tears. This trauma has lived with me since. As Syrian Druze families drive, they often don’t know where they’re going. The mother recites every prayer she knows; the father curses politicians. My own father cursed Saddam, whose actions forced us from Baghdad into the chaos of Lebanon’s war. I’ve lived the Middle East inferno often to miss what’s coming in Syria. The Druze will face massacres while the world fixates on Gaza. In a year, a survivor will reach the West, recounting horrors. I know people who endured Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, chemical attacks on Kurds, Assad’s gas attack on Ghouta, and Hezbollah’s wars in Lebanon. Two friends—Lokman in Beirut and Husham in Baghdad—were killed by Iran’s regime and its proxies for speaking out. Soon, we’ll hear from Suweida’s Druze about rape, murder, and destruction. Yet the world obsesses over vilifying Israel. It’s a disease. I’m drained. I want Islamists—Shia IRGC, Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS backed by Qatar and Turkey—to fear consequences for their crimes. But who will hold them accountable? America isn’t listening. It’s forgotten its Founding Fathers’ vision, rooted in Freemason ideals, of a nation as a civilizing force, shaping rough humans into polished blocks for a harmonious world. America was meant to be a shining city on a hill, not an isolated island. This is the mission of religions: Christianity preaches salvation, Islam ending Jahiliyyah (Age of Ignorance). America's Founders designed the republic in a way to resist mob rule, but social media amplifies the mob, turning leaders into populists chasing polls instead of shaping policy with wisdom, even if at a political cost. In the Middle East, the nation-state concept never took root among Arabic-speaking populations since the end of empires in the 1900s. The onslaught on the Druze echoes pre-Islamic tribal raids. Can America civilize these societies? (I know that all the Edward Saids of the world will come after me for suggesting that the West can educate the rest – imperialism!) Do we in America have the will or interest to help transform these populations from restive tribes to law-abiding and tax-paying citizens? What’s in it for us? Don’t expect this debate in a country where Christiane Amanpour and Tucker Carlson pass for intellectuals. Pardon the rant. XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [israel](/topic/israel) [homes](/topic/homes) [murder](/topic/murder) [rape](/topic/rape) [druze](/topic/druze) [Post Link](https://x.com/hahussain/status/1946256703219245140)
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Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain on x 111.3K followers
Created: 2025-07-18 17:12:12 UTC
Today, a personal reflection. I’m exhausted. Another day, another massacre in the Middle East—this time, Medieval radical Islamists targeting Syria’s Druze. Rape, mass murder, children decapitated and burned, homes destroyed. The world will urge “all sides” to de-escalate, equating attackers with victims. Israel tries to protect the vulnerable, only to face the world’s favorite pastime: Blaming the Jews. I've written about war for decades. My first article appeared in Lebanon’s Annahar in 1994. I don't know what to say anymore. I survived the Lebanese Civil War’s terrors and know the fear and helplessness firsthand. Children trust their parents, who reassure them everything will be okay, but the kids see through the facade. I watch videos of Druze families fleeing in cars, and I know exactly what they’re doing. The mother clutches a bag with essentials—IDs, cash, family jewelry. The father hides a gun or dagger in the children’s luggage, in case he will have to rely on his instincts and defend his younger ones. When a kid in Lebanon, I saw fathers humiliated and beaten at checkpoints, reduced to tears. This trauma has lived with me since. As Syrian Druze families drive, they often don’t know where they’re going. The mother recites every prayer she knows; the father curses politicians. My own father cursed Saddam, whose actions forced us from Baghdad into the chaos of Lebanon’s war. I’ve lived the Middle East inferno often to miss what’s coming in Syria. The Druze will face massacres while the world fixates on Gaza. In a year, a survivor will reach the West, recounting horrors. I know people who endured Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, chemical attacks on Kurds, Assad’s gas attack on Ghouta, and Hezbollah’s wars in Lebanon. Two friends—Lokman in Beirut and Husham in Baghdad—were killed by Iran’s regime and its proxies for speaking out. Soon, we’ll hear from Suweida’s Druze about rape, murder, and destruction. Yet the world obsesses over vilifying Israel. It’s a disease. I’m drained. I want Islamists—Shia IRGC, Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS backed by Qatar and Turkey—to fear consequences for their crimes. But who will hold them accountable? America isn’t listening. It’s forgotten its Founding Fathers’ vision, rooted in Freemason ideals, of a nation as a civilizing force, shaping rough humans into polished blocks for a harmonious world. America was meant to be a shining city on a hill, not an isolated island. This is the mission of religions: Christianity preaches salvation, Islam ending Jahiliyyah (Age of Ignorance). America's Founders designed the republic in a way to resist mob rule, but social media amplifies the mob, turning leaders into populists chasing polls instead of shaping policy with wisdom, even if at a political cost. In the Middle East, the nation-state concept never took root among Arabic-speaking populations since the end of empires in the 1900s. The onslaught on the Druze echoes pre-Islamic tribal raids. Can America civilize these societies? (I know that all the Edward Saids of the world will come after me for suggesting that the West can educate the rest – imperialism!) Do we in America have the will or interest to help transform these populations from restive tribes to law-abiding and tax-paying citizens? What’s in it for us? Don’t expect this debate in a country where Christiane Amanpour and Tucker Carlson pass for intellectuals. Pardon the rant.
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