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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Nation: The United States Must Abandon All Support for the Syrian Rebellion
The United States Must Abandon All Support for the Syrian Rebellion
Robert Dreyfuss on September 6, 2012 - 10:26 AM ET
The United States must immediately end alland I mean allsupport for the Syrian rebels. It should abandon them to their fate, whatever that might be. It should avoid getting involved, just as it abandoned Eastern European anti-Soviet rebellions in 1956 and 1968, just as it cut off Kurdish anti-Saddam separatists in the early 1970s and Shiite anti-Saddam rebels in 1991. And just as it didnt intervene, thank goodness, in the 2009 Green Movement uprising in Iran.
Whats happening in Syria has transformed, inch by inch, from an Arab Springtype rebellion against an autocrat, à la Tunisia and Egypt, into a full-fledged civil war. In that war, one side is amply backed by Iran, Russia and, it now appears, Iraq. And the other side is supported by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Arab Persian Gulf kleptocracies.
Note any pattern? Yes, Sunni vs. Shiite. The United States is now engaged nearly completely in a sectarian, region-wide conflict pitting anti-American, Shiite powers and their allies against a Sunni bloc, including the Muslim Brotherhood. In Syria, the opposition is heavily influenced by, if not dominated by, the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Sunni militants, including a smattering of Al Qaeda types. And its now getting the full-throated support of the Egyptian president, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, and the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, too. ..............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blog/169778/united-states-must-abandon-all-support-syrian-rebellion
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The Nation: The United States Must Abandon All Support for the Syrian Rebellion (Original Post)
marmar
Sep 2012
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(36,418 posts)1. Our support of the jihadists has effectively killed off the legitimate Syrian opposition
and any chance for democratic reform inside Syria.
There will be no democratization in Syria as long as the Saudi/GCC/Turkish armed insurgency continues with our complicity. The bloodbath will only worsen the longer the current policy of foreign intervention and holy war goes on.