War In Syria Could End In A Few Months – Unless The US Intervenes
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The Syrian government has reclaimed 99% of
Eastern Aleppo but some in the US are pushing for foreign intervention
to prevent the defeat of dubious “rebel” groups.
A Syrian soldier helps an injured woman to safety in a recently liberated district of Eastern Aleppo Credit – AP
Throughout the five-year-long Syrian conflict, there
seem to be two different realities depending on what you’re reading. One
one side, media outlets like Al Jazeera – funded by the same government that was caught funding ISIS – as well as establishment US newspapers
have consistently portrayed the Syrian government and its army as the
villains. Once Russia joined the fray late last year, their actions in
Syria, according to these and similar sources, were to blame for most
civilian deaths as well as various war crimes. However, many alternative
media sites, as well as Russian and Syrian outlets, have painted a very
different picture, highlighting the connections of the Islamic State to
the United States and Israel as well as the murderous tactics of the
US-funded “moderate rebels.” Based on the massive divide in
perspectives, it becomes exceedingly difficult to find out not just what
is actually happening in Syria, but why it is happening.
In 2012, when the Syrian conflict was just a year old,
the presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama offered a
shockingly honest look at why there is a war in Syria. Mitt Romney explained that
“Syria is Iran’s only ally. It’s the route for them to arm Hezbollah in
Lebanon, which threatens Israel. Seeing Syria remove Assad is a very
high priority for us. We need to coordinate our effort with our allies,
particularly Israel. We need to make sure the insurgents there are
armed.” Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, echoed this, saying
“Everything we’re doing [in Syria] we’re doing with our partners in the
region, including Israel, which obviously has a huge interest in seeing
what happens in Syria.”
Credit – Telesur
Indeed, Israel is greatly invested in Syrian regime change as the two nations are still technically at war with each other and have been since Israel was founded in 1948. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and their allies, who Wikileaks revealed created the Islamic State,
are also interested in Syrian regime change due to Syria’s alliance
with Iran and its policy of secularism. In addition, according to a 2009 interview with former General Wesley Clark, the US has been planning regime change in Syria since 2001 and the US officially entered Syria in 2006 with the goal of destabilizing Assad’s government. Turkey, the country guilty of laundering ISIS oil, has also sent tanks to Syria with the explicit purpose of deposing Assad.
Though it is undeniable that civilians in Syria have
been killed by both sides anything painting only Assad or only Russia as
the villains in the Syrian tragedy is dishonest at best, given the
evidence above. The US’ well-documented policy of regime change throughout the world continues to be on full display in Syria. The “rebel” forces they have armed and trained, efforts which cost US taxpayers over $1 billion, have been connected to Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. They have also been caught on video beheading children. The “rebels” are so dubious in character that even US Secretary of State John Kerry was forced to admit that
“there have been some occasions where certain elements of the
opposition have threatened people who were going to leave [Aleppo], and
in some cases prevented humanitarian assistance from being delivered.”
Even the “aid” group known as the “White Helmets” have been discredited after it was found that they “recycled” children in photos on a monthly basis and received millions of dollars
in funding from Western governments. In addition, no one interviewed in
recently liberated Eastern Aleppo territories had heard of this group,
which is supposedly saving them from buildings bombed by Russians.
Ever since Russia stepped in to support the Syrian government, ISIS and “rebel”’ territories have been greatly reduced
and regime change efforts have lost steam. Now, the fighting in Syria
is quickly drawing to a close. Syrian government forces, as of last
night, had withdrawn from all districts east of the Aleppo river. According to Telesur,
the Syrian army and its allies are in the “last moments before
declaring victory, as only a tiny, heavily bombarded pocket of “rebel”
territory remains. Within this pocket are an estimated 150,000 civilians. Now the UN is claiming
that the Syrian government killed 82 civilians in their homes based on
the testimony of unnamed “reliable contacts” inside and outside the
city, which has renewed calls for foreign (i.e. US) intervention in
Syria. However, it is dubious to rely on unnamed contacts, several of
whom the UN admits were not even within Aleppo, to document this alleged
crime. It is strangely coincidental that such reports are emerging as
the Syrian Army is set to declare victory in Aleppo as a victory there
spells certain doom for US-backed “rebel” groups. Though it is possible
that such needless civilian life was lost due to the actions of the
Syrian army, there needs to be more concrete evidence than “unnamed
contacts” before grave accusations become the grounds for a foreign
invasion of Syria.
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