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The U.S. Government’s Childish and Destructive Behavior in Syria
The U.S. Government’s Childish and Destructive Behavior in Syria
The U.S.’s interventions in the Middle East prior to the CIA’s coup against Mossadegh were relatively benign and almost nonexistent in comparison to Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Since that time the U.S. has tried to rule the Middle East by putting Saudi Arabia and other Middle East oil producing countries on the hook for $2.6 trillion dollars by using a petroldollar recycling scheme that rents the Saudi royal family its throne and U.S. acquiescence to Saudi interventions via al Qaeda militancy that provides a transparent veneer of plausible deniability that the U.S. would never dare place under a glaring light.
Meanwhile, the Saudi monarchy has steered clear of even mentioning Palestinian autonomy and stifles any disagreement with Israel or U.S. policy towards Israel. It never takes a stand publicly against the U.S. or Israeli policy and is happy to manipulate the U.S. behind the scenes as the U.S. allows the Saudis free reign to intervene across the region using Saudi al Qaeda fighters under the guise of Sunni fundamentalism.
It is good fortune for the U.S. that its population is so ignorant, gullible and easily manipulated. The U.S. can connect any geo-political issue to the 9/11 attacks and it evokes a response that is not based on culpability, reason, or logic, much less any truth.
A majority of Americans do not realize that Iran is the enemy of those who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. When President Ahmadinejad tried to express his condolences with the victims and condemn any attacks, our country forbid him a requested visit to the WTC site as if Iran had something to do with the attack.
Then, when the U.S. attacked Saddam’s regime as Dick Cheney was all over the news making false connections between Saddam and bin Laden by never putting more than two spoken words between Saddam, Iraq, terrorism and Hussein and mentioning 9/11, bin Laden and al Qaeda, Iran watched as the U.S. decided to crush the Iraqi state and replace it with a democratic state that is representative of the people and their desire to maintain peaceful relations with Iran.
There are very few Americans who realize that the U.S. shot down IR Flight 655, and even fewer who realize the criminality behind that act. There are very few Americans who realize the U.S. crimes committed against Iran with regard to the overthrow of Mossadesh and the suffering of the Iranian people under the rule of Shah Pahlavi. There are even fewer who know and understand the critical role the U.S. played in supporting Saddam’s invasion of Iran and its supplying of chemical weapons to a regime that used such weapons against a country that had never engaged in aggression towards its Shiite brothers in Iraq. There are few Americans who know the U.S. attacked Iran’s oil platforms and its navy during a time when Iran was only interested in establishing a just and equitable domestic policy to provide for its future.
Yes, there were hostages taken in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, but those incidents pale in comparison to the crimes that were being committed against the Iranian people on a daily basis that resulted in decades of theft of natural resources, political oppression, torture and murder.
Since that time, Iran has grown powerful enough to deter its enemies. That Iran has not been attacked or destabilized demonstrates that it has built a just society that provides for its people while other nations seek to foment internal divisions and play the “Age of Empires’ game by raising up an opposition movement made up of criminals, terrorists, malcontents and traitors who are granted legitimacy conferred upon them by an imperial power that seeks a toehold for news forms of economic colonialism and exploitation. It is a type of warfare waged by a cunning, calculating and opportunistic enemy. But, Iran has thwarted these efforts and experience has taught that one should be aware of enemies bearing gifts. It is self-determination that is important and there is no price too great to pay for that right.
Now, the U.S. is now faced with a policy decision that will now more than ever expose its foreign policy dealings and bring a scrutiny equal to that of Julian Assange’s Wikileaks revelations. During the Syrian regime’s war against foreign intervention that occurred after the Assad had promised sweeping reforms, it became clear that the Saudi interest in Middle East domination and the U.S.’s desire to advance Zionist interests dovetailed into a plan to completely destroy Syria and wage a scorched-earth policy that would bring complete ruin to those who rightfully fear and would resist a Sunni al Qaeda-based theocracy controlled by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. That Saudi Arabia and it al Qaeda minions would rather completely destroy all of Syria and have already begun ethnic cleansing of civilian populations ought to tell the Syrians that those seeking to overthrow the state seek lawlessness and genocidal slaughter.
The U.S. has not behaved as a voice of reason, but instead has pandered to Israeli interests due to the coming 2012 election. The president and his opponent must grovel and swear fealty to Israel and be vetted by the Israeli defense establishment lest they be completely excoriated in the media. While the lives of millions of Syrians hang in the balance, the U.S. has shown that if it can’t get its way it would rather bring complete ruin and destruction to everyone. As the Saudis fighters being imported into Syria have no stake in the nation except to conquer it, it matters little to them what happens to Syrian Sunnis and it matters not at all as to what happens to Christian, Shiite, Druze and Alawite populations. The U.S., with its pretentious press, attempts to lend legitimacy to U.S. policy instead of calling it what it is. The U.S. is behaving like a spoiled child on the international stage.
If Assad losses control of a portion of Syria, the Saudis will begin paying for war and reconstruction with petrodollars as the U.S. sells the Saudis more and more expensive weaponry. As that is about all the Saudis want or can buy from the U.S., it will serve the U.S.’s interests by putting oil wealth back into the U.S. economy as the U.S. absolutely needs war and petrodollar recycling for its economy to survive. As more and more of the world’s nations decide to form economic cooperative agreements void of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency by conducting direct currency exchanges, the U.S. has become more and more desperate to make an example out of someone. If in the process the U.S. can placate Israel, then the policy decision to foment disaster is an easy one for the U.S. to decide. This is why the U.S. has behaved like a spoiled child on the international stage decrying destruction as it encouraged the provisioning of heavier and heavier weaponry to the infiltrating al Qaeda forces. The U.S. will then soon discover the extent to which these elements will be uncontrollable and acting against the interests of the U.S. Then, the U.S. will have new crisses in which to intervene all to the eventual collapse of U.S. hegemony as more nations see the display of U.S. vulgarity, hypocrisy, absurdity and maliciousness.
The U.S. wholly underestimates the extent to which it is delegitimizing itself and international law just as it has delegitimized the Geneva Convention, the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Accordingly, more and more countries view the U.S. as a hostile power and seek to keep it at an arms length. Meanwhile, it is seeking new ways to intervene in Africa through AFRICOM even while it has now created NORTHCOM as a Forces Command entity aimed at quelling U.S. civil uprisings such as the Occupy Movement it has recently smashed by using the very tactics for which it criticizes other nations.
Iran now has choices it must make. The time of waiting and doing nothing is coming to an end. Iran must begin reaching out to Russia, China, Iraq, Hezbollah and Syria. It must begin an alliance and make Russia and China understand that the U.S. plans will mean disaster for them as well as Iran and Syria. One thing that is for sure is that the U.S. never seems to learn from its mistakes. It’s intervention in Libya brought an end to Gaddafi’s regime and did not add one iota to U.S. interests. Now the people of Libya suffer as cites lie in ruin and beyond repair. This is what awaits Syria if nobody intervenes on the side as Assad.
Much has been written about Assad eventually creating an Alawite-led multi-ethnic and religious statelet. If such a scenario occurs you can bet Sunni terrorists will try to act against such a state. If this happens, Assad needs to arm every single man, woman, and child against a terrorist onslaught. He needs to act with the brutality of Israel against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. A Syrian statelet needs to become a state that will behave as rigidly as Israel does when a homemade rocket drops harmlessly in the desert miles away from any person. It needs to be willing to unleash the type of destruction Israel has on Lebanon. This state needs to have the backing of other nations who will stand against U.S. domination and allow it to commit every crime against humanity as Israel has been allowed to perpetrate. This state then needs to continue to annex new lands and disarm and occupy territory while treating Sunnis in the same manner as the Israelis treat Palestinians while disregarding every aspect of international law as its supporters on the U.N. Security Council exercise veto authority. Maybe if a Syrian statelet of Christians, Shiites, Druze and Alawites becomes as much of a festering problem to the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as the Zionist regime occupying Jerusalem has become to every nation in the Middle East it holds under nuclear threat, more nations will finally realize that to cooperate with the U.S. and Israel is to make a pact with the devil from which no good can come. The U.S. will soon learn this lesson as it continues to scheme with Israel and Saudi Arabia. Children who refuse to listen often learn the hard way that playing with fire can get one burned.
