While Americans were mesmerized by the litany of well-known voices singing at today's funeral service for Whitney Houston, mourners in the Middle East were chanting to a different tune – the sound of gunfire and tear gas cannisters. In Damascus, Syria, government security forces fired upon a funeral procession, killing two and injuring scores of mourners who were honoring three young men that were killed two days ago in an anti-Bashar al-Assad regime protest. The al-Assad regime didn't take kindly to the funeral procession passing within eye-sight of the Presidential Palace, so the security forces attacked the crowd with bullets and tear gas. Scores of mourners were also arrested, leaving little doubt that the al-Assad government has no plans to let-up on the brutal crackdown it's been conducting on citizens in every part of Syria.
Bashar al-Assad's days are numbered, but the continuous reign of terror that his government has been orchestrating against the Syrian citizenry leaves little doubt that thousands more will die before that day arrives. Eventually, all tyranny falls. Let's hope a-Assad's happens sooner than later.
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