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Syrian opposition pushing Libyan scenario
Published: 06 January, 2012, 12:22
Edited: 06 January, 2012, 20:35
An F/A-18F fighter jet launches off the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis during maneuvers in the Arabian Gulf in this U.S. Navy handout photo dated November 23, 2011 (Reuters / U.S. Navy / Benjamin Crossley / Handout)
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Syria's opposition has rounded on the Arab League observer mission whose presence has failed to quell a government crackdown. They say the League is giving succour to Assad’s regime, and are urging the UN to approve a Libya-style no-fly zone.
The Cairo-based body denies its observers are being misled by either side, and says the accusations are pre-emptive. The League claims its mission has made Damascus compromise by pulling its tanks out of civilian areas, and releasing more than 3,000 prisoners in recent weeks.
Richard Spencer, a founder and co-editor of the online magazine AlternativeRight.Com, says the opposition is taking its lead from Libya and using foreign forces to help propel itself.
“This is once again an example of rebels who will want to make a deal with the United States and use their power to topple their enemies,” he told RT. “In many ways the UN remains a tool of the global American order.”
Spencer noted that the Libyan situation accelerated once America said it would enforce a no-fly zone.
“Once that ball gets rolling, so to speak, it’s ultimately going to eventuate in regime change, war and rebels being lifted up to a new position after their enemy is taken out,” he said.
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The Syrian opposition had my respect until they started killing their own police and security forces who are their national government representatives, then made it worse by allowing foreign western mercenaries and military traitors to enter into the bloodbath, again killing their own people.
The Syrian government has made some mistakes by overreacting in some incidents in the earlier beginnings of this internal matter, yet for decades has been targetted by western elements targeting it as a chess piece toward destroying Irans economic, military and resistance powers against know western economic colonialism.
And, looking at the history of Iran's struggle against western and European economic colonialism which dates back some 400-years of greed and mass-economic deprivation by colonial UK and others there is no wonder the Iranian nation is again at the point of a violent struggle for nationalism and freedom.
The Syrian People must stand with their government and prevent a western NATO bombing campaign that will leave them in the thousands dead and irradiated with banned weapons and other military poisons.
Just look at Vietnam, Iraq and Libya and you will realize that the best way to bring about change is to engage your government without foreign interference and without weapons; it's a long and difficult struggle on the road to change, but nothing worthwhile is easy and your government is still your only safety against what is coming from external powers who can care less about how you feed your families or bury your dead.