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U.S. IS SYRIA'S ALLY
An inevitable thing happened. The United States understood that
it is possible to conduct an alternative-free policy in Syria -
preventing of radical Islamists from power. Not only it may lead to
mass destruction of the population but also the U.S. and its European
allies will lose an important "lodgment" in the Near East.
The mass media inform that Michael Morell, the Central Intelligence
Agency's second-in-command warned that "Syria's volatile mix of al
Qaeda extremism and civil war now poses the greatest threat to U.S.
national security". Morell held an interview with the Wall Street
Journal in his office in Langley to mark the completion of his
32-year career in intelligence. Morell said a greater number of
foreign fighters are joining today the opposition ranks in Syria,
exceeding those in Iraq during the civil war. Regime weapons "are
going to be up for grabs and up for sale," as they were in Libya when
Moamer Kadhafi fell, Morell said.
Without control over Syria there will be no guarantees of geopolitical
control over the Near East, and the country has turned to a fight
between the western and Islamic civilizations with barbarism. All
kinds of suggestions that the Americans are planning physical removal
of Bashar Assad are nonsense. The U.S. political and analytical
circles (to some extent, even Israel's "friends") believe that in the
current stage it is necessary to eliminate the threat of terrorism
and radicalism in Syria otherwise it will migrate to Libya and Iraq,
and possibly also Jordan and Egypt.
The collapse of global order may start from Syria. However critically
different political and ideological streams may treat the idea of
"world order", it exists and is supported by China and Russia and India
and many other influential powers. Despite diehard stereotypes in the
mass media circles of the United States that Salaphite radicalism
can be used in a limited number of situations in the interests of
certain strategies of the Western community, and in principle it is
the key threat to the United States national security.
There are credible signs that the Syrian political and military
leadership has worked out and is implementing a plan of military
actions pursuing specific goals. The military action contained a
number of elements which could be assessed by the western community as
excessive cruelty. Casualties in El Quseir: 2745 killed, 344 injured;
200 were taken to hospitals of Lebanon, 1000 were detained. In
addition, on Syria's side the Lebanese Hezbollah participated in the
action but the West did not react though a tough reaction had been
expected. The Americans and Europeans have understood that the destiny
of the civilization in the Near East was determined in El Quseir.
Apparently, the plan of slow and "objective" ousting of different
clans from Syria which will not reconcile themselves to defeat has
been launched. This population is pushed to Turkey and Saudi Arabia
and this contingent will be satisfied to stay in these countries for
a long term. Had this operation failed, Turkey would interfere in
Syria's affairs without watching the reaction of the United States.
Strange articles appear in the analytical literature of the United
States which produce an impression that there were people in the U.S.
administration and the corpus of consultants (even among those who are
not well-acquainted with the Near East) who triggered escalation in
Syria to demonstrate to the U.S. government who and what poses real
threat. It may be exaggerated but even if it is a mistake Washington
has reviewed a lot regarding Syria.
The current developments in Syria can be used in very different
directions and variations: argument for rapprochement between the West
and Iran; achievement of important agreements with it, including the
problems of Hezbollah in Lebanon; stabilization in Lebanon; support
to the Iraqi government in the fight with Al-Qaida; compromising
some political circles in Saudi Arabia and Qatar; cutting influence
of Saudi Arabia on the Arab world; creation of a reliable barrier to
Turkish expansion towards the Near East; putting Syria and Russia at
a distance on the basis of support and help to the ruling regime; at
the same time sway Russia into cooperation on regional security-related
issues; democratization or rather liberalization of the Syrian society
in return for all kinds of preferences and expectations on behalf of
the United States, France and the EU; influencing events in Egypt.
In this game it will hardly be possible to normalize, even partly,
the Syrian-Israeli relations but this conflict is also part of the
regional game. In any case, the "Sunnite caliphate" which appears
to some people as a scarecrow for demagogic propaganda will be the
subject matter of activities of the United States and their partners,
not their ally or toolkit.
Hence the situation is getting more complicated but there is more hope
that the interests of most Arab states and the West will be aligned on
the basis of the fight with a genuine and priority enemy and opponent.
Someone has literally led to this hard situation, now it is time to
face the consequences and mostly at the expense of one's own national
security. But there is no other way out, a lot has to be set aside
for the sake of global security.
Igor Muradyan 15:36 08/08/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/politics/view/30658
An inevitable thing happened. The United States understood that
it is possible to conduct an alternative-free policy in Syria -
preventing of radical Islamists from power. Not only it may lead to
mass destruction of the population but also the U.S. and its European
allies will lose an important "lodgment" in the Near East.
The mass media inform that Michael Morell, the Central Intelligence
Agency's second-in-command warned that "Syria's volatile mix of al
Qaeda extremism and civil war now poses the greatest threat to U.S.
national security". Morell held an interview with the Wall Street
Journal in his office in Langley to mark the completion of his
32-year career in intelligence. Morell said a greater number of
foreign fighters are joining today the opposition ranks in Syria,
exceeding those in Iraq during the civil war. Regime weapons "are
going to be up for grabs and up for sale," as they were in Libya when
Moamer Kadhafi fell, Morell said.
Without control over Syria there will be no guarantees of geopolitical
control over the Near East, and the country has turned to a fight
between the western and Islamic civilizations with barbarism. All
kinds of suggestions that the Americans are planning physical removal
of Bashar Assad are nonsense. The U.S. political and analytical
circles (to some extent, even Israel's "friends") believe that in the
current stage it is necessary to eliminate the threat of terrorism
and radicalism in Syria otherwise it will migrate to Libya and Iraq,
and possibly also Jordan and Egypt.
The collapse of global order may start from Syria. However critically
different political and ideological streams may treat the idea of
"world order", it exists and is supported by China and Russia and India
and many other influential powers. Despite diehard stereotypes in the
mass media circles of the United States that Salaphite radicalism
can be used in a limited number of situations in the interests of
certain strategies of the Western community, and in principle it is
the key threat to the United States national security.
There are credible signs that the Syrian political and military
leadership has worked out and is implementing a plan of military
actions pursuing specific goals. The military action contained a
number of elements which could be assessed by the western community as
excessive cruelty. Casualties in El Quseir: 2745 killed, 344 injured;
200 were taken to hospitals of Lebanon, 1000 were detained. In
addition, on Syria's side the Lebanese Hezbollah participated in the
action but the West did not react though a tough reaction had been
expected. The Americans and Europeans have understood that the destiny
of the civilization in the Near East was determined in El Quseir.
Apparently, the plan of slow and "objective" ousting of different
clans from Syria which will not reconcile themselves to defeat has
been launched. This population is pushed to Turkey and Saudi Arabia
and this contingent will be satisfied to stay in these countries for
a long term. Had this operation failed, Turkey would interfere in
Syria's affairs without watching the reaction of the United States.
Strange articles appear in the analytical literature of the United
States which produce an impression that there were people in the U.S.
administration and the corpus of consultants (even among those who are
not well-acquainted with the Near East) who triggered escalation in
Syria to demonstrate to the U.S. government who and what poses real
threat. It may be exaggerated but even if it is a mistake Washington
has reviewed a lot regarding Syria.
The current developments in Syria can be used in very different
directions and variations: argument for rapprochement between the West
and Iran; achievement of important agreements with it, including the
problems of Hezbollah in Lebanon; stabilization in Lebanon; support
to the Iraqi government in the fight with Al-Qaida; compromising
some political circles in Saudi Arabia and Qatar; cutting influence
of Saudi Arabia on the Arab world; creation of a reliable barrier to
Turkish expansion towards the Near East; putting Syria and Russia at
a distance on the basis of support and help to the ruling regime; at
the same time sway Russia into cooperation on regional security-related
issues; democratization or rather liberalization of the Syrian society
in return for all kinds of preferences and expectations on behalf of
the United States, France and the EU; influencing events in Egypt.
In this game it will hardly be possible to normalize, even partly,
the Syrian-Israeli relations but this conflict is also part of the
regional game. In any case, the "Sunnite caliphate" which appears
to some people as a scarecrow for demagogic propaganda will be the
subject matter of activities of the United States and their partners,
not their ally or toolkit.
Hence the situation is getting more complicated but there is more hope
that the interests of most Arab states and the West will be aligned on
the basis of the fight with a genuine and priority enemy and opponent.
Someone has literally led to this hard situation, now it is time to
face the consequences and mostly at the expense of one's own national
security. But there is no other way out, a lot has to be set aside
for the sake of global security.
Igor Muradyan 15:36 08/08/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/politics/view/30658