Can the U.S. Swallow Syria?

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Ardeshir Ommani
by Ardeshir Ommani
12-Feb-2012
 

The Syrian armed opposition whose objective is to capture state power, not through elections, but by imposing a civil war on that country, is not independent from the United States and reactionary Arab regimes. The degree of its dependency and servitude manifests itself when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unambiguously called on "friends of democratic Syria" to unite and rally against President Bashar Assad. This proclamation was ushered the day after the U.S. sponsored authorization for military intervention into Syria was rejected by China and Russia, who were forced to veto the U.S. plan for invasion of Syria.

In the continuation of her command, Clinton reiterated that the "international community", just like George W. Bush's "coalition of the willing" had a duty to promote a political transition that would see President Assad step down.

She gave her directive to the whole world while visiting Bulgaria, one of the ten poorest countries of Europe with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of less than $53 billion in 2010, the Per Capita Income of $13,449 and the General government gross debt as high as 19.7 percent of the country's GDP. The purpose of interposing Bulgaria's poor economic conditions is not to denigrate the country or its people, but to show that US Imperialism with its plans of domination, destruction and plunder uses even the most poverty-stricken nations to turn against other struggling countries such as Syria, Iran and not too long ago Libya to accomplish its criminal purpose. Following in the footsteps of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Company just before the invasion of Iraq, Clinton lashed out at Russia and China as a stepping stone to declare "faced with a neutered Security Council we have to redouble our efforts outside of the United Nations with our allies and partners…."

I think we have seen this movie before. The first character that appears on the stage is a spokesman for the Arab League (AL). It makes no difference whether he is elected or appointed by the Saudi Arabian King and Prime Minister and more importantly he has received Hillary Clinton's or General David H. Petraeus, the Director of the CIA's blessings. Following his assignment, the Arab League emissary who has been ushered to the U.N. General Assembly room by Ms. Susan E. Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, pleads for establishing a "No Fly Zone" to save the lives of the innocent Syrians for God's sake!

If there is no contest to the resolution well-prepared by the U.S. government, then Washington gets to work and with the help of the coalition of the willing, permission in hand, begins the bombarding of Syrian logistics, every kind of arms depot, the electrical grids, the factories, food depots, water reservoirs, city sewer systems and schools and hospitals. Does this scenario have precedence? Yes, about six months after extracting the license to impose a "No Fly Zone" over Libya, the Western powers with carpet bombings flattened that country, liberated the country's light sweet crude oil and succeeded to install one of the senior ENI SpA executives (Italy's major oil company) as Libya's oil minister and in two months the Western oil companies were sucking out 1.3 million barrels a day.

This time the job of preparing the draft resolution was given to the Moroccan representative to the UN who was on a fast track. The plan demanded the Syrian government withdraw all of its armed forces from all populated areas back to its barracks. However, it ignored Russia's demand that the Syrian opposition distance itself from extremist groups that commit violence and crimes against civilians. The second Russian demand that was totally ignored was that 'armed groups must stop attacks against state institutions and the public while the Syrian armed forces are leaving the cities.' The refusal to include these provisions into the draft resolution meant only one thing: dissolution of the Syrian state and a total "regime change".

Instead of being apologetic, the co-authors of the draft began slamming the integrity of the Russian government. For instance, Morocco's representative charged the Russian government with ignoring the "Arab's common stances". France's delegate went as far as calling Russia and China accomplices in crimes committed by the Syrian regime. For Russia and China who had seen the terrible consequences in Libya, there was only one alternative and that was vetoing the resolution.

This time around, in the case of Syria, China and Russia had learned their bitter lesson and resisted being fooled for a second time. But the U.S. and its allies had stacked the cards in favor of passing the resolution and doing unto Syria what they did to Libya. More telling, the U.S. did not accept any alteration in the resolution, which forced China and Russia to veto the motion and defeat it.

As far back as in November 2011, NATO in collaboration with the pro-imperialist and reactionary Arab Sheiks of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turkey were planning to invade Syria, set up a colonial regime and overthrow a social democratic secular government. According to an article on Al Bawaba, an Arabic/English internet site, Senior European sources revealed that Arab jet fighters and possibly Turkish warplanes, backed by American logistical support would impose a no-fly zone in Syria's sky after the Arab League issues a decision calling for armed intervention. The sources told Kuwait's al Rai daily that the Syrian trucks, tanks and military vehicles would not be excluded from the targets of the invading jets. The fates of Libya and Syria could not be more similar. While deep in economic crisis, the U.S. and Europe are looking to regenerate capitalism through widespread war with the developing countries before being ready for war with Russia and China.

AUTHOR
About the Author: Ardeshir Ommani, President of the American Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC), is a writer and political analyst with a background in Political Economy. AIFC was created in 2004 to promote peace and dialogue between the U.S. and Iran, and prevent any NATO instigated war on the Iranian people.

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amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

Hellooooo? Get help clueless America First, Iran sell outs.

by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on

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مآمور

watch what u r wishing for

by مآمور on

In Syria, all sunnis who happen not to be salfi(hard line islamist), with no exception all christians, all shites and alvai support Asad. the people of Syria know better than any body elsse if those salfi vahabis supported by Sauadis take over their country they massacare all non-sunni muslims and kick out all christians(catolics, armanis....) even kurd minority is not with those salfists.

Iranian oppositions residing in the west would like to declare a war on Iran in Syria at the cost of Syrian people. in their dream, the army fighting for west-residing iranian opposition will be all green and sword wielding. 

no music, no dace, no movies...........lots of dmocracy and good relation with Israel.

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AMIR1973

I literally don't have enough time to refute all the falsehoods,

by AMIR1973 on

and arguments made in bad faith in this shameful article, which is an apologia for a hereditary (as in handed directly from father to son) "republic" based on a political ideology (Baathism) that took its inspiration from the European fascism of the 1930s. I'll simply limit myself to one particularly absurd and outlandish claim, i.e. describing the Assad regime as a "social democratic secular government". So, the Assad regime is a "social democracy"? A regime which killed tens of thousands of its own people in the early 1980s and has already killed thousands more since March 2011? A regime very much led by a mafia family, where Assad's brother, Maher, heads up the most important military unit (of course, Arab and Islamist militaries are good only for killing their own people and would lose wars within a few days to any professional military). In which, Assad's cousin, Rami Makhlouf (aka Mr Ten Percent) has become a billionaire and the richest man in all Syria? In which a rather small minority of Alawites dominate all of the top echelons of the state and military? Some "social democracy"! And then we have the usual ignorant, know-nothing ones talking about "the many valid points". Yeah, right.


Bavafa

There are many valid points brought up in this blog....

by Bavafa on

yet three out of four comments are about the autor himself without a word to challenge the content of the blog.

YES, how dare you live in US and still write about things that is daming to the US.

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

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vildemose

Ardeshir Ommani: WHy don't

by vildemose on

Ardeshir Ommani: WHy don't you leave the US?? Don't you have any principles or convictions?? What a pathetic hypocrite you are.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.


Raoul1955

I Second Roozbeh's...

by Raoul1955 on

Ardeshir: Your 'bio' reads: "Ardeshir Ommani is an Iranian-born writer and an activist in the U.S. anti-war and anti-imperialist struggle for over 40 years..."  One would wonder if you are engaged in terrorist activities against the US!  Couple of questions:
1)
Are you involved in anti-US activities?
2) How come you prefer living in the US and not in Iran?


Roozbeh_Gilani

is the writer of this blog the same "ardeshir ommani"...

by Roozbeh_Gilani on

Who from the safety of his residence in the heart of the Imperialist United States of America, [mis]using the civil liberties offered to him by the USA, asked for the summary arrest and execution of peaceful Iranian demonstrators who participated in million plus demonstartions across Iran against the fabricated results of the fraudulent Iranian preseidential elections in 2009, which brough Mahmood ahmadinezhad back to power against the overwhelming wishes of Iranian people?

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پندارنیک

A must-read blog

by پندارنیک on

Thank you.......

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