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US Arab Spring policy? Third party counter-revolution
by eternispring
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The “rebel” factions that the US has directly supported in Syria have
always been those that do not fight Assad – in other words rebels that
don’t rebel. The SDF position on Syria is identical to that of the US –
a “third option” theoretically distinguishable from the regime but which
ultimately involves indirect support to it. This “regime preservation by
proxy” has been US policy in the conflict, helping it to avoid the
criticisms which would otherwise arise from unmediated direct support –
with other “proxy” US-backed allies of the regime include Iraqi army
brigades (who currently form the biggest ground forces of the Assad
regime) and the Egyptian al-Sisi regime.
Another example of what’s talked about here is the famed “US only found
54 moderate rebels to fight ISIS”. Hundreds of outlets (mainstream and
alternative) probably recirculated the original context-less source
piece, in turn reaching millions of people. And in only a tiny minority
will the crucial detail being missing: that there were only 54
signatories because the US stipulated that those who signed up sign a
declaration to use their weapons only to fight ISIS, not Assad. This in
turn provides the source material for “alternative media” outlets to
repeat the upside-down narrative of a US conspiracy against the Assad
regime.The result literally from just one misleading piece failing to
add a line is millions of people understanding the issue upside down.
This isn’t unique to Syria either; for instance you’ll often find
Zionists say “the Palestinians rejected the 1947 UN partition plan which
would’ve given a peaceful solution to the Arabs and Israelis”. And
whilst this is certainly true, as ever the critical small-print is
missing: that the Palestinians rejected a plan which a) divided a
country which shouldn’t have been divided and b) even in this division
gave away more than half of the territory to a minority largely foreign
population. For decades such myths were allowed to expand before being
adequately challenged.
The reality is that every single faction the US has directly supported
in the Syrian conflict have been brigades that have stopped fighting
Assad. Whether its the SDF factions, the Mua’atasim Brigade or the New
Syrian Army, all of these groups only got US support once they made
clear they wouldn’t be fighting Assad. Some, like the NSA which operate
on the Syrian-Iraqi border have even collaborated with the pro-Assad
Iraqi government.
The indirect support has also allowed the US to directly support the
regime as well. By pursuing a “third path” the regime was eventually
rehabilitated enough and by 2014 the US was bombing Assad’s enemies –
“moderate” and extreme – alongside his airforce.
Full:
https://eternispring.wordpress.com/2017/03/03/us-arab-spring-policy-third-party-counter-revolution/?fb_action_ids=1414757321930172&fb_action_types=news.publishes
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