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by Nahid Hattar
Al-Arab al-Yawm
Aug 8 2012
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
The United States is playing an immoral double game towards the Syrian
affair. This is because it knows only too well that the road to direct
military intervention in Syria is blocked by new international balances
with Russia and China and the countries that oppose such action. This
means that the chances of bringing down the Syrian regime by force
are slim in view of the following:
1. The overwhelming superiority of the Syrian Arab Army over the
armed resistance.
2. The economic assistance that the Russians and Iranians give to
Damascus.
3. The political support for President Bashar al-Asad from at least
50 per cent of the Syrians.
4. The opposition is divided and is being courted by the different
capitals and intelligence agencies and the main weight of this
resistance has moved into the hands of the fundamentalist, takfiri
and terrorist groups.
Yet, the United States does not cease to spread the illusions about the
possibility of the fall of the Syrian regime through the "available
means." It encourages the armed elements, including the terrorist
elements, extends political, financial and intelligence support for
them and provides the cover for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to
arm and fund them. It is doing this in the hope of "the miracle"
and the fall of the hostile regime through the terrorist operations
accompanied by political and media incitement and defections.
This is merely hope and not a goal and Washington has admitted that it
knows little about Syria and this does not allow it to form a practical
and realistic vision for the future. Despite that, the Americans have
practical and realistic objectives in Syria represented by prolonging
the drain of the country, destroying its infrastructure and economy,
exhausting the capabilities of the army and society and taming the
Syrians to accept US hegemony and peace with Israel.
It is these objectives that explain the large number of terrorist
operations that do not aim to weaken the regime but the capabilities
of the state and army, including the blowing up of infrastructures,
railway lines, bridges, gas, oil and water pipes, electricity
transmission lines and public facilities, as well as the assassination
of scientific, military and technical cadres. For example, what kind
of a political objective would be behind the assassination of the
director of the Syrian missile project? It was recently confirmed
through monitoring contacts between US officers and officers from
Free Syrian Army that those targeting operations were planned by
the Americans.
The ongoing quibbling over Syria is no longer meaningful because
the picture has become bare and clearer. We are now witnessing a
confrontation between the Syrian army and the armed groups in all
their colours. It is the weapons that talk today and not discussions,
demonstrations or political and media frenzy. It is the outcome of the
war in the field that will politically settle the situation. For the
Americans, it would be a comprehensive victory if the regime fell, and
there would be nothing to prevent them from negotiating with Damascus
when it settles the situation militarily. In the first scenario, the
Gulf States would find themselves behind the American master and in
the second scenario they would pay the terrible revenge price.
Turkey would be the biggest loser in the Syrian crisis regardless
of its come. Turkey today has its lost its regional standing and has
become entangled in animosities with Syria, Iraq, Iran and Russia.
However, its biggest loss is represented in the dramatic eruption of
the Turkish-Kurdish issue and the secession of the Kurdish region that
encompasses 20 million people is about to be a topic on the agenda.
Damascus dealt a strategic blow to Ankara when it recognized the
Syrian Kurdish cause and armed the Kurdistan Workers Party fighters
who are now seeking to liberate a buffer zone inside Turkey that would
be tantamount to a base to liberate the entire Kurdish region. The
unified Kurdish state is looming on the horizon and this would mean
opening the file of Iskandarun and the Arabs, Alawites and Armenians
in Turkey. The Turkish adventure in Syria has burned the fingers of
a major regional country the size of Turkey. What do you think would
happen to Jordan?
We are not talking only about the weak capabilities but about
realistic elements for the alternative homeland project, which could
come together and combine and create a qualitative step that would
soon move, God forbid, to a state of chaos whose possibilities would
interact with several shocking indicators.
[Translated from Arabic]
by Nahid Hattar
Al-Arab al-Yawm
Aug 8 2012
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
The United States is playing an immoral double game towards the Syrian
affair. This is because it knows only too well that the road to direct
military intervention in Syria is blocked by new international balances
with Russia and China and the countries that oppose such action. This
means that the chances of bringing down the Syrian regime by force
are slim in view of the following:
1. The overwhelming superiority of the Syrian Arab Army over the
armed resistance.
2. The economic assistance that the Russians and Iranians give to
Damascus.
3. The political support for President Bashar al-Asad from at least
50 per cent of the Syrians.
4. The opposition is divided and is being courted by the different
capitals and intelligence agencies and the main weight of this
resistance has moved into the hands of the fundamentalist, takfiri
and terrorist groups.
Yet, the United States does not cease to spread the illusions about the
possibility of the fall of the Syrian regime through the "available
means." It encourages the armed elements, including the terrorist
elements, extends political, financial and intelligence support for
them and provides the cover for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to
arm and fund them. It is doing this in the hope of "the miracle"
and the fall of the hostile regime through the terrorist operations
accompanied by political and media incitement and defections.
This is merely hope and not a goal and Washington has admitted that it
knows little about Syria and this does not allow it to form a practical
and realistic vision for the future. Despite that, the Americans have
practical and realistic objectives in Syria represented by prolonging
the drain of the country, destroying its infrastructure and economy,
exhausting the capabilities of the army and society and taming the
Syrians to accept US hegemony and peace with Israel.
It is these objectives that explain the large number of terrorist
operations that do not aim to weaken the regime but the capabilities
of the state and army, including the blowing up of infrastructures,
railway lines, bridges, gas, oil and water pipes, electricity
transmission lines and public facilities, as well as the assassination
of scientific, military and technical cadres. For example, what kind
of a political objective would be behind the assassination of the
director of the Syrian missile project? It was recently confirmed
through monitoring contacts between US officers and officers from
Free Syrian Army that those targeting operations were planned by
the Americans.
The ongoing quibbling over Syria is no longer meaningful because
the picture has become bare and clearer. We are now witnessing a
confrontation between the Syrian army and the armed groups in all
their colours. It is the weapons that talk today and not discussions,
demonstrations or political and media frenzy. It is the outcome of the
war in the field that will politically settle the situation. For the
Americans, it would be a comprehensive victory if the regime fell, and
there would be nothing to prevent them from negotiating with Damascus
when it settles the situation militarily. In the first scenario, the
Gulf States would find themselves behind the American master and in
the second scenario they would pay the terrible revenge price.
Turkey would be the biggest loser in the Syrian crisis regardless
of its come. Turkey today has its lost its regional standing and has
become entangled in animosities with Syria, Iraq, Iran and Russia.
However, its biggest loss is represented in the dramatic eruption of
the Turkish-Kurdish issue and the secession of the Kurdish region that
encompasses 20 million people is about to be a topic on the agenda.
Damascus dealt a strategic blow to Ankara when it recognized the
Syrian Kurdish cause and armed the Kurdistan Workers Party fighters
who are now seeking to liberate a buffer zone inside Turkey that would
be tantamount to a base to liberate the entire Kurdish region. The
unified Kurdish state is looming on the horizon and this would mean
opening the file of Iskandarun and the Arabs, Alawites and Armenians
in Turkey. The Turkish adventure in Syria has burned the fingers of
a major regional country the size of Turkey. What do you think would
happen to Jordan?
We are not talking only about the weak capabilities but about
realistic elements for the alternative homeland project, which could
come together and combine and create a qualitative step that would
soon move, God forbid, to a state of chaos whose possibilities would
interact with several shocking indicators.
[Translated from Arabic]