Syrian unrest over the past several years, culminating in the horror we see & endure today, follows a time in the 90's of relative prosperity and harmony. The various ethnic groups, religious factions/ sects and races largely worked together in cities and even upon rural government/policy issues.
The lack of irrigtion and farm-land use policy, political (home-grown)greed/cruelty, along with climate change and drought, began to drive rural folks to strained cities. They had lost their farms and homes. The cities became inflamed.
This created stresses and pain which grew to the extent we see today--leaving out, of course, the situation in Iraq and the general unrest in the region.
Many would lay the blame for that, at our feet, after our disastrous destabilizing and rather pointless invasion of 2003, which triggered many of these variables into a coalition of misery and hate. George Bush and the cadre of those who beat the war drums, “invaded” Iraq, killed, maimed & displaced hundreds of thousands, was the catalyst for many ills in the region.
They were prime, through this displacement, poverty and need for power and structure to be heard, toward religious violence. Eventually, we see this vector into the longstanding Muslim-Islam hatred of Christianity, developing through the crusades, Ottoman fighting and a few hundred years of marginalization and abuse, and viola. Here we are.
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