Jordan has launched airstrikes more than once against areas in southern Syria, where the belt of drugs, weapons, smuggling and networks is located.
What is most striking here is the lament of drug dealers for the families and children they claim could be harmed by the bombing or by the anti-aircraft fire of these networks that randomly fire at Jordanian aircraft, which then rebounds on civilians. This lament is based on the claim that the bombing harms civilians, even though these same drug dealers, when they send drugs to Jordan, cause the destruction of tens of thousands of Jordanian families and the destruction of heads of households, so that every son and daughter is harmed by the father’s addiction and lack of income, and perhaps his involvement in crimes.
It is as if harming Jordanian families is permissible, while harming the families of smugglers, even unintentionally or deliberately, is forbidden. This is a morally degenerate logic. It would have been better not to attack a neighboring country like Jordan, and not to work in a forbidden and suspicious trade that causes crimes daily at the hands of addicts and distributors.
Then where did you get anti-aircraft weapons and bombers? This means that the region has become a storehouse for dangerous weapons that could target Jordan at any time. This necessitates, at some point, a Jordanian-Syrian cleansing operation of those areas, instead of them becoming a source of all evils in the region.
The second point that the pure ones in the drug networks are lamenting is that the Jordanian bombing is an attack on Syrian sovereignty, as if patriotism is only invoked in the case of drug smuggling, noting here that there is secret, undeclared coordination between Jordan and Syria, prior to the implementation of military operations, just as the recent bombing against Suwaida does not need coordination, because the targeted area has not been under the control of the Syrian government since last year, but is run by local groups.
Jordan cannot remain silent about everything that is happening in southern Syria, whether coordinated or not. Perhaps this is a call for Amman and Damascus to develop a joint plan to cleanse southern Syria of loose weapons and drugs, shut down factories, and arrest networks. This is a situation that cannot be tolerated, regardless of the social class that runs these gangs amidst the mutual accusations within these areas. Ultimately, this is not our concern.
The file of southern Syria in general, and the file of Suwaida in particular, is a complex security and political file, and perhaps the original approach is for Jordan to deal with it in a way that balances the potential dangers in light of what may develop through those areas, even if the matter reaches the point of establishing buffer zones or borders between the two countries, instead of the daily threat of killing the sons of Jordan, smuggling drugs and weapons, and any costs of the geopolitical crises that are being exported to us, which may lead to new waves of migration from the north.