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US would like to weaken the regime in Syria - journalist
Published: 14 June, 2011, 22:10
TAGS: Conflict, UN, Africa, Protest, Politics, Bill Dod
The US has renewed calls on Syria to immediately halt its crackdown on anti-government protesters, with the White House strongly condemning President Assad’s actions.
The Syrian military has expanded its deployment of forces to restive regions in the north and east of the country on Tuesday, with hundreds of displaced civilians gathering near the Turkish border.
Government troops are said to be pushing rebel forces further from the northern town of Jist Al-Shugur after taking full control of the area. The government retook the town Sunday, prompting the exodus of civilians. The advance has sent another wave of civilians fleeing towards the Turkish border.
According to human right groups, at least 1,400 people have been killed since the beginning of the crackdown in mid-March and some ten thousand detained.
Meanwhile, Britain and France are pushing a draft UN resolution. However, Russia and China, who oppose any attempts to intervene in the Syrian conflict, have said they will not back the move.
The journalist Simon Assaf believes that even if the UN resolution is passed it will not be very workable. He says people are very suspicious of the reasoning behind the resolutions.
“The problem is that those who support the Syrian regime and the Syrian government can point to the very simple fact that there have been many UN resolutions for the Middle East and its voice is ignored and doesn’t apply to Israel. So they can put an argument and say why are they putting UN security against us, but they don’t apply it to Israel. What has to happen in this case has simply led to confusion on the ground.”
Assaf also thinks that US intentions regarding Syria are clear.
“I think it is quite straight forward…the US would like to see an opportunity to weaken the regime,” Assaf said.
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Well, you can´t say no good things about the Syria´s regime, and its way of behaviour against its own people. As in Libya, there is no wellknown opposition, but instead zero oil. No Nato-invasion is on the table, perhaps the " Imperial overstretch"will occur. Russia and China have end their appeasement Münich-policy against USA/UN/ Nato, but perhaps too late. Israel don´t seems to be interested in a regime-change, "you know what you got, but... (The Golan heights, at least.) But Syria´s regime has an important point: The onehundred UN resolutions against Israel are coll-ecting a lot of dust, somewhere in the desert, but this time boys, we´re serious, at last, the decision must be implemented, and Syria bite the dust...but this time it´s different.... "and its coming to gooo..."
We have to STOP calling it National Defense and call it what it is - another unprovoked OFFENSIVE against a country with oil reserves that we want to control.