Max Fisher, VOX: 14 hard truths on Syria no one wants to admit
Eventually, America's long-slog presidential primaries will end, and the world's most powerful country will turn to the general election. And when it does, polling suggests that foreign policy and terrorism will be major issues for voters. This will naturally focus much of our national discourse, over the following several months, on Syria.
That's largely a good thing. Syria's civil war, which since its 2011 inception has become a proxy war involving much of the Middle East as well as the US and Russia, could use some attention. It is a disaster primarily for Syrians but also for the world, fueling ISIS and other terror groups, as well as the refugee crisis that is straining European unity.
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WNU Editor: These truths are hard to "swallow".
Hillary Clinton, in the news recently, formed the Syrian National Council several years ago, complete with a prime minister groomed to take over in Damascus. It was amusing that the first appointed PM was an American, Ghassan Hitto who was "elected" prime minister on 18 March 2013 by a narrow margin over former Syrian Arab Republic agricultural minister Assad Mustafa. Hitto didn't last long, he resigned on 8 July 2013. Hitto was a Texas-based businessman from Murphy, Texas who was linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and had lived in the US for over 30 years.
ReplyDeleteMuslim Brotherhood, now there are people to trust. We could not trust them in the 1920s and the better part of a century has not made them more palatable.
ReplyDeleteI remember when the so called SNC or interim government in waiting or whatever, tried to take Syria's seat at the Arab League. Maybe Lebanon, Algeria and Egypt raised hell over the move and blocked it because the ghosts of Saddam Hussein and al Qaddafi paid their leaders a visit in the night. It must certainly be disconcerting to a Arab (or any) government which may agree to disagree with the Empire of Chaos and its cronies to see so many shake and bake vende patria coalitions just appear "out of nowhere" ready to assume their seats at international bodies.
ReplyDeleteRegardless, I am sure al Assad would cringe if he watched today the recording of himself laughing at Qaddafi telling the League in 2008 --in Syria no less-- that the executed Hussein could have been any one of them. I'm sure he now knows just how close he came.