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    U.S. Goal Is Reminder of Priorities


    Barack Obama's administration with its image of a somewhat `dove' of
    foreign policy is not popular in the country especially due to
    problems of foreign policy.

    It is not over with the Republican opposition, especially on the eve
    of adoption of the budget and certain social programs. A new stage of
    opposition fight is maturing among the Republicans, and the most
    important direction is foreign policy. In Washington they know that
    the United States has gone too far with concessions and shifting
    responsibility in regional policy, first of all in the Near East. In
    this case the role and importance of lobbyists of the arms industry is
    not high but this factor should not be ruled out completely.

    In any case, the main purpose of the United States to strike Syria -
    ensuring its influence in the region - is impossible without achieving
    success in Syria, namely in forming a coalition government of
    reconciliation. In Washington they understand very well that Bashar
    Assad will remain the head of Syria, and they will have to deal with
    his team but it is necessary to persuade him to make considerable
    concessions. It is necessary to propose `victims' also for the friends
    of Israel in the United States, and they would love to limit
    themselves to hitting Iran, not Syria, especially that this is viewed
    in the light of the upcoming talks with Tehran as `the last breath of
    pressure' on Iran. (Instead of continuing the idiotic `discussions in
    one basket' the Russian-Israeli information website Regnum should
    state precisely the essence of the Russian-Israeli relations vis-à-vis
    the situation in the Near East).

    Over the past two decades the United States has not undertake even not
    so very important military actions in the Near East without consulting
    Arab states. Israel does have a reason to beware chemical weapon given
    the monstrous associations with the crimes of the Nazi regime in the
    Jewish people.

    It seems that this time the Arab League has `approved' attack on Syria
    but if I am not mistaken only Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan
    participated in the military forum representing the partners
    interested in the attack on Syria. In any case, two leading Arab
    states, Egypt and Iraq, did not take part in this forum.

    In fact, Egypt and Iraq - two close partners of the United States in
    the region - have openly supported Syria. France and the United
    Kingdom have altogether lost their influence on the region and are
    trying to cling to the `Saudi lifebelt' hoping to regain their
    foothold in `new' Syria and the rest of the region. However, after a
    `settlement' Syria will be a partner to the United States, Iran, Iraq
    and Egypt but not France and the UK. Syria and Lebanon treat European
    states as Poland in 1939.

    In any case, Syria still sympathizes with Russia, especially in terms
    of the future confessional conflict but the United States will be the
    chief partner of both Iraq and Iran.

    As it has been noted, in this pandemonium all the opinions and stances
    were taken into consideration besides the stance and intentions of
    Turkey. Although Turkey has been invited to the meeting in Amman, and
    it proposed use of the air base in Incirlik, its participation is not
    stated in the plans of the United States, the UK and France in any
    way. Turkey's participation is possible only in case of a land attack
    otherwise it will be meaningless for the United States and France to
    use force against Syria because as a result Turkey is becoming
    dominant in the region.

    The head of the Turkish MFA Ahmed Davutoglu has stated that Turkey
    will join an international anti-Syrian coalition in case the world
    community decides to form it beyond the UN. According to him, the
    issue of forming a coalition is being discussed with over 30 states
    but for the time being Turkey wants the UN SC to express an opinion on
    crimes committed in Syria and resolve the issue of sanctions.
    Ostensibly, Turkey fears involvement in an illegitimate military
    conflict due to lack of mutual confidence between Turkey and its
    partners in NATO.

    Now it is time Syria made political concessions to align with the
    interests of its natural partners and not to confine itself to a
    long-term marginal existence and fragmentation in one way or another,
    which is inevitable in any case. However, the overall impression is
    that there will be no strike. There is a solution to everything if the
    game is not more delicate, of course.


    Igor Muradyan
    11:45 30/08/2013

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/politics/view/30759


    From: Baghdasarian
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