Geen
nieuws voor velen, het gegeven dat de VS de opstand en daarmee de
oorlog in Syrië heeft georganiseerd met de hulp van o.a. Turkije en
GB....... Toch goed dat er VS overheidsdocumenten op WikiLeaks zijn
gevonden, waarin e.e.a. nog eens fijntjes uit de doeken wordt gedaan.
Al in
2006 zette de VS de eerste stappen richting 'regime change' in Syrië,
dit in overleg met Turkije, Groot-Brittannië, Saoedi-Arabië en Egypte,
al lijkt het me stug dat Israël niet ook van de partij was...... Dit daar
Israël Syrië het liefst opgedeeld zag en ziet worden in kleine niets
betekenende staatjes (de Balkanisering van Syrië), waar deze fascistische terreurstaat naar
believen zou kunnen binnenvallen, iets dat met een groot Syrië niet
mogelijk was (en in feite nog is, ook al zitten de VS, Frankrijk en
Groot-Brittannië nog steeds illegaal op Syrische bodem)....... Om te laten zien dat het Israël ernst was heeft het Syrië de laatste jaren een groot aantal keren gebombardeerd......
Turkije
kreeg van de VS opdracht om de radicale elementen uit de soennitische
oppositie te porren voor een (bloedige) opstand, die dan moest
resulteren in een staatsgreep tegen Assad.....
De VS
kreeg haar opstand, echter die was marginaal, ofwel er waren maar
weinig Syriërs geïnteresseerd in een opstand tegen Assad, niet in
de laatste plaats daar men met de vele geloven hand in hand naast
elkaar leefde en wel zag dat dit in veel moslimlanden niet mogelijk
was (en is).... Hoewel aan 'de opstand' maar weinig Syriërs mee hebben gedaan, blijft de VS spreken van een massale opstand.....
Deze
zaken gewogen wist de VS dat de strijd tegen Assad een lange en zeer
bloedige strijd zou worden, ofwel de VS wist dat ook deze illegale
oorlog een ongelofelijk aantal burgerslachtoffers zou kosten en toch
heeft deze grootste terreurentiteit haar smerige plannen doorgezet...... Ofwel het zoveelste bewijs dat de VS inderdaad de
grootste terreurentiteit op aarde is.......
Met deze
actie ondermijnde de VS niet alleen het politieke proces in Syrië
maar destabiliseerde de VS het Midden-Oosten nog meer, een proces dat in feite begon met de illegale stichting van de staat Israël, gevolgd door de uitgelokte en begonnen oorlogen van deze terreurstaat en haar bombardementen op buurlanden Libanon, Irak en Syrië...... De VS destabiliseerde de boel in het Midden-Oosten verder met de illegale oorlogen tegen Afghanistan (wordt meegerekend tot het Midden-Oosten), Irak en zoals gezegd die tegen Syrië...... Waar Libië ook nog genoemd moet worden, daar na het vernietigen van dit land, de terroristen die de VS en de NAVO hielpen met hun terreur daar, door de VS en Saoedi-Arabië werden vervoerd naar Irak en vandaar naar Syrië, inclusief wapens en andere uitrusting.....
Whitney
Webb, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, stelt dat het
hoofdmotief voor de VS de invloed van Iran was in Syrië. Daar ben
ik het niet mee eens, de regering Assad had eerder geweigerd om
pijpleidingen voor gas en olie over haar grondgebied te laten lopen,
iets dat vooral de VS en de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten in het verkeerde keelgat schoot.....
Bovendien was het bondgenootschap van Syrië met Rusland een doorn in
het oog van de VS.....
Al zal Israël inderdaad wel druk op de VS
hebben uitgeoefend om Syrië aan te vallen, niet alleen vanwege de
hiervoor al genoemde reden, maar inderdaad om 'de invloed van Iran in Syrië' verder tegen te gaan. Wel moet daarbij opgemerkt worden dat de banden
tussen Iran en Syrië voor de oorlog in Syrië lang niet zo hecht waren
als nu het geval is, deze banden werden pas echt aangehaald toen het
Syrische bewind in het nauw kwam te zitten vanwege de door de VS ontketende oorlog.....
Voor Europa betekenden de hiervoor aangehaalde oorlogen een toevloed van vluchtelingen, die de door het westen uitgeoefende terreur ontvluchtten....... Daarnaast hebben deze oorlogen terreur uitgelokt op de straten van de EU........
Lees het
volgende uitstekende artikel van Whitney Webb, eerder geplaatst op
MintPress News en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media en geeft het
door, de hoogste tijd dat de enorme berg leugens over Syrië, zowel
die van de westerse politiek als van de reguliere westerse (massa-)
media, tot de grond toe wordt afgebrand:
WikiLeaks:
US Undermined Democratic Elements of Syrian Opposition to Empower
Radical Groups
October
3, 2018 at 8:38 am
(MPN) — A
recently uncovered U.S.
government document published
by WikiLeaks has revealed that the U.S. directly advocated for
undermining “democratic” elements of the so-called Syrian
“revolution” of 2011 in order to ensure the dominance of
authoritarian, sectarian Sunni groups within the Syrian opposition.
The
document, written by the United States Marine Corps (USMC)
Intelligence Department in late 2011, further asserts that empowering
these radical Sunni groups over democratic and secular ones would be
ideal for the United States and its regional partners, as ensuring
the decline of the current Syrian government, and with it a secular
Syria, would harm Iran’s regional clout.
In
other words, the U.S. openly supported undermining democratic
opposition forces in Syria in order to challenge Iranian influence
and, with it, the influence of the Middle East’s “resistance
axis” that obstructs the imperialistic agendas of the U.S. and its
regional allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel.
According
to the document, which was buried in a previous WikiLeaks release
and recently
uncovered by
journalist Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, U.S. military intelligence was well
aware that the Syrian opposition movement in 2011 did not pose “a
meaningful threat against the [Syrian] regime,” given that it was
“extremely fractured” and “operating under enormous
constraints.” It also noted that “reports of protests [against
the Syrian government] are overblown,” even though “the exiled
[Syrian] opposition has been quite effecting (sic) in developing a
narrative on the Syrian opposition to disseminate to major media
agencies.”
That
narrative — which was subsequently promoted by several foreign
governments, including the U.S., the U.K., Turkey and France —
falsely claimed that the protests were massive and involved largely
peaceful protestors “rising
up”
against the “autocratic” government led by Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad. This
document,
as well as substantial
evidence that has
emerged over
the last several years,
shows that this narrative, of a “peaceful uprising” seeking to
establish a secular and “democratic” Syria, has never been true,
as even U.S. military intelligence knew that the reports regarding
these “peaceful” protests were highly exaggerated.
U.S.
Calling on Turkey to Do Its Dirty Work
Given
that the USMC intelligence considered the Syrian opposition movement
in 2011 to be an ineffective force for effecting change in Assad’s
status as Syria’s leader, the document notes that it was in the
U.S.’ interest for Turkey to “manage” efforts to destabilize
the Assad-led government, as Turkey “is the country with the most
leverage over Syria in the long term, and has an interest in seeing
this territory return to Sunni rule.”
Those
Turkish-led efforts would involve gradually building up “linkages
with groups inside Syria, focusing in particular on the Islamist
remnants of the Muslim Brotherhood in trying to fashion a viable
Islamist political force in Syria that would operate under Ankara’s
umbrella.” This ultimately came to pass, as the Turkey-backed Free
Syrian Army (FSA) – previously
promoted as
the main force of the “democratic” Syrian opposition but now well
known to be aradical, sectarian
group –
still takes
its marching orders from
Ankara.
Turkey-backed
Syrian rebels and Turkish troops secure the Bursayah hill, which
separates the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin from the
Turkey-controlled town of Azaz, Syria, Jan. 28, 2018. Photo | AP
The
document advocates for these efforts to mold the “fragmented”
elements of the 2011 Syrian opposition into an “Islamist” puppet
force of Turkey in order to support the gradual “weakening of the
Alawite [i.e., Assad] hold on power in Syria,” as well as because
“Turkey, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others have a
common interest in trying to severely under[mine] Iran’s foothold
in the Levant and dial back Hezbollah’s political and military
influence in Lebanon.”
Also
notable is the fact that USMC intelligence at the time knew that
these efforts to undermine the current Syrian government would have a
disastrous impact on the country and its civilian population. Indeed,
the document notes this on two separate occasions, stating first that
“any political transition in Syria away from the al-Assad clan will
likely entail a violent, protracted civil conflict” and later
adding that “the road to regime change will be a long and bloody
one.”
Thus,
not only was U.S. military intelligence advocating for the
undermining of democratic and secular forces within the Syrian
opposition, it was also aware that the U.S.-backed efforts to
undermine Assad would have “bloody” consequences for civilians in
Syria. These admissions dramatically undercut past
and present U.S. claims to
be concerned with Syrian civilians and their “call
for freedom”
from Assad, showing instead that the U.S. preferred the installation
of a “friendly” authoritarian, sectarian government in Syria and
was uninterested in the fate of Syrian civilians so long as the
result “severely under[mined] Iran’s foothold in the Levant.”
For
much of the last two decades, but especially since the 2006 war
between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the “resistance axis” —
led by Iran — has emerged as the
greatest threat to
the hegemony of the United States and its allies in the Middle East.
A power bloc composed of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas in
Palestine, the “resistance axis” as a term first emerged in 2010
to describe the alliances of countries and regional political
groups opposed
to continued Western intervention in
the region, as well as to the
imperialist agendas of
U.S. allies in the region like Israel and Saudi Arabia. Iran’s role
as the de
facto leader
of this resistance bloc makes it, along with its main allies like
Syria, a prime target of U.S. Middle East policy.
Sunni-Stan
Washington’s
support for a future authoritarian Syria may come as a surprise to
some, given that the U.S. has publicly promoted the narrative of a
“democratic revolution” in Syria from 2011 to the present and has
used calls for the establishment of a “new” secular democracy in
Syria as the foundation for its agenda of overthrowing the current
Assad-led government.
However,
powerful individuals in Washington have long promoted an
“authoritarian” and “Islamist” state in Syria with the goal
of countering Iran, much like the plan detailed in the USMC
intelligence document.
I
think our objective should be a new Sunni state out of the western
part of Iraq, the eastern part of Syria, run by moderates or at least
authoritarians who are not radical Islamists.”
A
U.S.-backed anti-government fighter mans a heavy machine gun next to
a US soldier in al Tanf, a border crossing between Syria and Iraq.
Hammurabi’s Justice News | AP
A
few months later, Bolton – this time in a New
York Times op-ed
– detailed his plan to create a
sectarian Sunni state out
of northeastern Syria and western Iraq, which he nicknamed
“Sunni-stan.” He asserted that such a country would have
“economic potential” as an oil producer, would serve as a
“bulwark” against the Syrian government and “Iran-allied
Baghdad,” and would help ensure the defeat of Daesh (ISIS).
Bolton’s mention of oil is notable, as the proposed territory for
this Sunni state sits on key oil fields that U.S. oil interests, such
as ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers, have
sought to control if
the partition of Iraq and Syria comes to pass.
Bolton
also suggested that Arab Gulf States like Saudi Arabia “could
provide significant financing” for the creation of this future
state, adding that “the Arab monarchies like Saudi Arabia must not
only fund much of the new state’s early needs, but also ensure its
stability and resistance to radical forces.”
Furthermore,
the ultimate goal outlined within the USMC Intelligence document of
undermining Iran’s regional clout continues to be the guide
for the U.S.’ current Syria policy, which recently changed yet
again to include regime change in Damascus as part of its goal. For
instance, earlier this year, Bolton – in his capacity as National
Security Adviser – stated
that U.S.
troops would remain in Syria “as long as the Iranian menace
continues throughout the Middle East.”
More
recently, the Trump administration “redefined”
its Syria policy to include “the exit of all Iranian military and
proxy forces from Syria” as the administration’s top priority,
while also calling for the installation of “a stable,
non-threatening government” that would not have Assad as Syria’s
leader.
Thus,
while seven years have come and gone since the leaked document was
written by USMC intelligence, little has changed when it comes to the
U.S.’ long-standing goals in Syria and its callous disregard for
the will of the Syrian people and Syrian democracy.
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