COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN BY LINA KHATIB
This is simply an ignorant article, reflecting the
Pentagon's fantasy view of events.
The horrors of Syria have been caused by Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, Israel, and the United States.
Those states have paid the bills, gathered and moved the
terrorists, trained the terrorists, given them refuge and medical help, and generally
lied through their teeth to all of us for about 4 years.
The whole Benghazi fiasco Clinton won't discuss was exactly
about these ugly matters, a CIA operation to gather weapons and thugs from
war-torn Libya to be sent to Turkey for insertion into Syria, an operation
which experienced "blowback" in the form of the ambassador and his
party being killed.
Those countries have directly caused around 300,000 deaths,
countless injuries, and a terrible wave of refugees.
The bottom line for them in Syria has always been about
getting rid of Assad.
Why? Because he is independent-minded and fairly liberal in
some matters, and, most all, he doesn't bow down and accept Israeli-American
hegemony.
He is tolerant of religious differences, and all past polls
show he holds a majority of public support.
For those reasons he is hated in Israel and anything hated
in Israel is hated by the pathetic leadership of the United States.
The entire Middle East has been torn apart by America for
these same reasons.
As to Saudi Arabia, I'm pretty sure this just ain't going to
happen.
If Saudi troops enter Syria, they face Iran and Russia.
Besides, the Saudis, while expensively equipped, have
demonstrated to anyone who follows events in Yemen they are not the world's
most competent forces, resembling Ukraine with better weapons.
Their incompetence would lead to calls for America to save
their bacon, but that ain't going to happen either because Kerry has already
spoken on the topic of not being lured into war with Russia.
Also the Saudis are already very busy with their totally illegal
attack on Yemen - never covered in any detail by The Guardian - having killed thousands of children and women and
poor peasants, as well as with other matters, such as suppressing their own
people and holding public beheadings.
If you want to see a truly hateful country, Saudi Arabia is
one of your must-go destinations. All of America's waves of propaganda about
Assad are more accurately used to describe Saudi Arabia with its absolute,
half-demented monarch and a place where a woman can still not even get a
driver's licence well into the 21st century.
The sooner the induced-horror of Syria is over, the better.
And recent moves by the United States basically reflect a growing acceptance
that Russia is right although they will never say that in public. They must
also now secretly acknowledge that Erdogan is a dangerous lunatic.
The Russians, working with the Syrian army and Iranians and
Kurds, are about to achieve a miracle, closing the northern border with Turkey
which has been the cause of all the miseries. We should all be grateful for the
effort and grateful that, just for once, the good guys are winning.
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