War or no war - that is the quesiton

Dear friends: I am totally confused about the happenings in the middle-east, especially Syria. My former angryness about family-members and friends travelling to Syria changed into total perplexity in my head, my brain, my inner common sense... Media tells us a story about Syria, a country on the edge of civilwar. The once coming back from holidays in Syria and even the once living there and who come here to Sweden to visit family and friends tell us that everything is calm, that there are a couple of clashes between police and a couple of demonstrators but that the majority of people just want peace to come back.

So now, there we have media's war-scenes on one side and residents and visitors tellings on the other. Who shall we believe, which story shows us the real happenings, what does the Syrian people actually want to happen?

If you read the paper's stories about the opposition's group, about the people behind the scenes, who now are busy lobbying throughout the world for support, you will see arabic names, assyrian names all with different background with one thing in common: they are actually not living in Syria... So why trust in people that have emigrated from their country, sometimes many years ago, and who now see their chance to get a cut out of the political power that will be distributed if Al Assad decides to leave. Why trust in people who most probably will look for their very own benefit at first? Why trust in people living outside their own country and who now want to be engaged? I understand that some of opposition outside the country had political reasons for their emigration but who will be able to decide which one has the very good of the country in mind and which do not?

A revolution, the fight for democratic freedom, should come from the people and not from outsiders. Otherwise there will be an imminent risk that the revolution will end in chaos and civil war as most of the people do not understand the need and urge for democracy. On this point I want to repeat one thing that I wrote once a couple of months ago: democracy has to be taught, understood and wanted to be genuin. Otherwise the question is and willl be: who is the big winner?