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Why Are The Neocons so Desperate to Rescue Al-Qaeda in Syria?
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By Daniel McAdams
Global Research, February 12, 2016
Ron Paul Institute 11 February 2016
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Url of this article:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-are-the-neocons-so-desperate-to-rescue-al-qaeda-in-syria/5507295
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Reading Dennis Ross and David Ignatius is a good reminder that
the neocons live in a different world than the rest of us. They do not
conform their analysis to reality, but rather they conform reality to
their view of the world. Where most people would be encouraged to read
that Aleppo in Syria was about to be liberated from its 3.5 year
occupation by al-Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, the neocons see a disaster.
On the brink of al-Qaeda’s defeat in Aleppo, the Washington Post’s
Ignatius is furious that, “President Obama won’t approve military
tactics that could actually shift the balance.” Yes, he wants to shift
the balance toward al-Qaeda because like the other neocons he is so
invested in the idea of regime change in Syria that he would even prefer
turning the country into another Libya than to see government forces
defeat his jihadist insurgents. Failing to “shift the balance” toward al-Qaeda fighters in Aleppo only brings “greater misery for the Syrian people,” in the world of Ignatius.
Ignatius’s Washington Post, which has never seen a potential war it did not want to see turned into an actual war, thinks it a tragedy that
the Syrian army’s advance on al-Qaeda occupied Aleppo has “cut off all
vital routes of supply from Turkey to the rebel-held areas of the city.”
Those would beTurkish supplies in support of al-Qaeda and ISIS rebels, but the Post is too deceptive to mention that fact.
It is as dishonest an inversion of reality as anything printed in Pravda of old.
In the same vein as Ignatius, former Bush/Clinton/Obama Administration Middle East “expert” Dennis Ross writes to tell us,
“what Putin is really up to in Syria.” In the above-linked article, The
Los Angeles Times does not reveal that Ross is hardly an objective
observer of the situation. As one of the founders of AIPAC‘s
Washington Institute for Near East Policy — and a current counselor to
that organization — Ross strongly supports AIPAC’s position in favor of
regime change in Syria and Israel’s active role in assisting jihadist rebels from al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front in their efforts to overthrow the Assad government.
So what does regime change neocon Dennis Ross want us to believe is
happening in Syria? The Russians, he asserts, are playing a dirty game
by stepping up their bombing campaign against ISIS, al-Qaeda, and
affiliated rebels instead of pushing for a ceasefire. How funny that
when the US/Turk/Saudi/Israeli-back jihadists were on the verge of
taking over all of Syria not that long ago there was no talk from neocon
quarters about a ceasefire or a negotiated political solution. Only now
that al-Qaeda’s stronghold in Aleppo is on the verge of liberation by
government forces are the neocons screaming that diplomacy should be
given a chance.
Russian operations are “designed to strengthen the Assad regime and
weaken the non-Islamic State Sunni opposition in different parts of the
country,” writes Ross. He doesn’t mention that particularly when it
comes to Aleppo, the “non-Islamic State Sunni opposition” means
al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front and affiliated forces.
By relentlessly bombing Islamic State and other jihadist groups
seeking to introduce Sharia law into secular Syria, “Putin
is…undercutting our aim of isolating Islamic State and having Sunnis
lead the fight against it.” Read that again. By attacking ISIS he is
preventing the US from isolating ISIS. Doublespeak.
What is Putin really up to in the world of Dennis Ross? He is not
sincere about defeating Islamist extremism in Syria or even helping
Assad’s forces win the war. No, Putin “aims to demonstrate that Russia,
and not America, is the main power broker in the region and increasingly
elsewhere.” Ah yes, the old argument about Russian expansionism. Baltic
invasion, restoration of the USSR. All the neocon tripe.
Ah but here is where Ross plants his seed, whispers in the Administration’s neocon power brokers’ ears:
“Certainly, were Russia’s costs to increase, Putin might look for a way out.”
Hmm, now we see what he’s getting at:
…it is time we make it clear to the Russians that unless
they impose a cease-fire on Assad and Hezbollah and insist that
humanitarian corridors are open, we will have no choice but to act with
our partners to create a haven in Syria — for refugees and for the
organization of the Syrian opposition.
In other words, tell Russia if you do not stop fighting al-Qaeda and
its affiliates in Syria we will face-off in a WWIII-threatening stance
to establish a “jihadistan” in part of Syria from where the hundredth or
so version of a rebel fighting force can be re-assembled.
Ross’s plan is not for the weak of heart. “[W]e cannot threaten to
create a haven without following through if Putin refused to alter his
course,” he writes. Meaning of course that we must be willing to
actually go through with WWIII if Putin does not blink, back down, and
pull out of Syria just as Russia’s intervention is meeting its
objective. Surrender when on the verge of victory in Syria or face a
nuclear war with the United States.
No one ever accused the neocons of thinking small. But with much of
the Middle East a smoldering ruin due to the disastrous interventions
they lied us into, no one should count out even their most
insane-sounding plan being seriously considered somewhere in Washington.
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