America and the ‘Global
War Against Syria’ (Al Baath, Syria)
Is an unjust
global war against led by the United States being waged against Syria? According
to columnist Ahmad Abu Saluum al-Monasirah
of Syria’s state-controlled Al Baath newspaper, American attempts to
topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad reflect yet
another failure of U.S. foreign policy, and the position of Russia and China demonstrate
that America no longer stands as the world’s unchallenged dominant power.
One of dozens of children killed at point blank range during a house to house rampage of innocents, in Houla, Syria, on May 26. At least 32 children under ten were killed in this fashion. The Syrian government denied its troops were behind the attack.
When we use logic to delve into the details of that headline,
we should be pondering the motives of the U.S. administration about events in
Syria and the depth of American involvement in the crisis.
If we closely examine recent events in Syria, it becomes a
simple matter to grasp that America’s position regarding this global war
against Syria, the country, its people, its history, and its present and
future, takes the form of a clever pragmatism. It is a position that shifts
moment by moment. Sometimes it appears to depend on the situation on the ground,
and at others on the regional and international political winds, which are to
some extent embodied by statements of U.S. administration officials that can be
characterized as mysterious, vague and at times, politically stupid.
Given the sensitivity of the region and the geostrategic
importance enjoyed by Syria, the current crisis has consequences that are international
in scope. The world appears sharply divided between two global blocs that
encompass almost every nation and many political, economic and even social
groups. And these two blocs are led and represented by Russia and China on the
one side and the forces of old and new colonialism on the other, including the
United States, Great Britain, France and some others.
The international front standing with Syria and the rightful
Arab cause is laboring to restore the tradition of international legitimacy, the
rights of the people to determine their fate and respect for the sovereignty of
independent nations.
Within this context, we find that American policy, in light
of how the crisis has developed, appears to have sustained a series of traumatizing
shocks. So now, after being surprised by its incapacity to achieve any form of
breakthrough that would serve its interests and steer events in a direction to
its choosing, we see that it attempting to insulate itself from the
consequences of the Syria crisis.
Sitting at the United Nations Security Council, U.S. Ambassador
to the U.N. Susan Rice offer a lengthy explanation of her country’s position regarding
the Syrian crisis, and asserting unashamedly that the U.S. will boost its assistance
to the Syrian opposition to order to help unify its ranks. On more than one occasion,
Ms. Rice has confessed that her country provides logistical support - and doubtless
that is not limited to providing medical or humanitarian backing, since we have
seen some of this “support” appear in the Kazzaz neighborhood of Damascus, the Shaar
neighborhood of Aleppo, then
the houses of the Ayyash neighborhood in Deir
Al Zor.
We all know that the U.S. administration’s declared refusal
to provide weapons to the opposition is nothing but a huge public lie, since it
knows that armed groups in Syria have access to weapons only with its full knowledge
and blessing.
Still, the most dangerous thing about Ms. Rice’s comments concerned
the terrorist massacre
that took place in the neighborhood of Kazzaz on
the tenth of this month, when she simply said: “The twin bombings on Thursday
are a major and dangerous demonstration that “the situation is approaching a
moment of truth in which the Council will need to decide whether we are
prepared, if there is continued non-compliance, to take the logical next step,
which is to increase the pressure on the Assad regime through collective action.”
Of course she said this without condemning the crime.
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Rice’s remarks lead us to discuss U.N. envoy Kofi Annan’s
peace plan, which Washington has always looked on with suspicion, questioning its
chances of success and even besieging it by repeatedly making accusations against
the Syrian government and calling for a determined effort to topple our
government.
In the end, Washington’s welcome of the U.N. envoy’s peace plan
on the one hand and directly attacking it on the others, is a clear reflection
of America’s confused foreign policy, which is first and foremost based on its
own interests and is far from taking into account the considerations of anyone
else.
Certainly, the chaos and tension felt in U.S. foreign policy
circles is due to Syrian steadfastness in the face of the conspiracy against
it, and the refusal on the part of Russia and China to allow this
conspiracy to pass in the Security Council. The United States is now fully
aware that it is no longer the only player that counts on the global stage, and
its failure in Syria will be added to those of the wars of the previous American
administration.
