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US trajectory on Syria 'a self-generating path to war'
Published: 22 December, 2011, 12:01
Edited: 22 December, 2011, 22:20
Soldiers walking out from a US helicopter somewhere north of Baghdad during Operation Swarmer (AFP Photo)
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Washington has once again slammed the Syrian regime, warning of new international measures unless it withdraws security forces from the streets. But a US-based political cartoonist says human rights are merely a cover for America’s real intentions.
“I think we are going to look at the usual trajectory of ramping up the sanctions, trying to deny diplomatic recognition and cutting off all economic activity between Syria and US allies in the region,” Ted Rall told RT. “These things almost have a logical ramping up that you see in one crisis after the other. It’s almost like it’s a self-generating path to a future war, and it becomes even more pronounced at a time when the United States is winding down its involvement in Iraq.”
What is really driving Washington’s insistence on regime change there, Rall explains, is the desire to please its regional ally. Human rights abuses serve here as a convenient excuse which is only addressed from one side – when it is convenient for the West.
“This is an opportunity for the United States to get rid of sort of a regional mini-power that they find irritating, and as a way to do a favor to its chief ally in the region – Israel,” he said. “Human rights is something that the United States only cites when it’s convenient for them. When their allies are guilty of human rights abuses in places like in Central Asia there’s a completely different narrative there, and you are just not looking at the same kind of sanctions and other activities.”
Similarly, the forthcoming mission of Arab League observers to Syria may later be used as a local reference in accusations and as a justification for military action.
“I don’t think [the Arab League mission] is going to make much difference… If this is going to be regime change against Syria, it’s not going to be the Arab League action,” Ted Rall explained. “However, if the United States were to ramp up towards a military action in the coming year, they would certainly cite the Arab League’s statements as a way to justify it.”
Rall recalls that the same scenario was applied to Iraq in the run-up to the war against Saddam Hussein, when regional powers were cited as the reason why the United States should go in.
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Kihnu (unregistered) wrote in#10
The US military employs a new form of warfare which Russia has not mastered yet, and will not for decades - high tech electronic warfare with precision guided high explosive munitions, many of them carrying depleted uranium warheads.
The thousands of Syrian Russian supplied vehicles might as well be sitting in some Siberian potato field for all the good they will do if the US decides to attack. These tanks and armored vehicles will be target practice for the American A-10s and drones carrying predator missiles. The unfortunate Syrian soldiers won't even know they have been targeted until their tank explodes in an inferno.
I believe its only a matter of time before America starts a bombing campaign against Syria to "save civilian lives". The Libyan venture was just a trial run for the American military. The US will not inject troops on the ground until Syria rendered harmless from the air.
If the Russians don't tow their old aircraft carrier out of the Syrian harbor, she will be left alone by the American to witness America's "shock and awe" military triumph over Russian equipped Syria.
Russia is simply too weak to inject herself into any war America has planned for the Middle East.
"The bottom line is that Muslims are still to backwards, and their cultures wont allow them to be functioning societies like everywhere else." Sonoma
I think that it is to do with power structures and economic opportunities in the region known as Middle East or Western Asia.
In the East known as Far East, we have same types of the what Middle East has before it. We [Eastern people] change step by step. It is not easy task to do it.
Do not forget that Middle East or Western Asia has what western countries want it
The Judaized Khazarian bankers' quick and dirty routes of bringing down nonconformist states since a few hundred kosher Bolshevik international terrorists trained in Zürich, Switzerland brought down Tzar's empire and a few hundred kosher "Young Turks" terrorists trained in Thesaloniki, Greece brought down Ottoman empire have taken many modern forms. Color revolutions for amateur democracies and central bank take-overs for veteran democracies. But the good old classic gong ho method still seems to be reserved for one-man show nations (Serbia, Sudan, Libya, and now Somalia and Syria). Except that the gun wielding mongoloid Turk terrorists of yesterdays are now called "philosophers" today (Bernard Henry Levy) and only liaison coach the ghetto thugs picked up from around the world who will do just about anything for thirty pieces of silver. Now the celebrated transnational cheap merc army provider Levy is recycling his desert vagabonds from Libya to Hakkari, Turkey for training and dispatch into Syria.
Did Syria miss all the signs on the wall to train small but tightly networked commando special forces to hunt and take out armed terrorist groups all around the border town and villages to essentially seal off the borders? Did Syria misjudge the dangerous Trojan Horse Turkey with its crypto-Jew Erdogan?