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This showed up on my blog this morning:
The left in western countries is subdivided into two main groups, when
it comes to what is going on in Syria and Iraq. The first group listens
to the Anti-imperialist rhetoric coming out of Iran/Syria and believes
that the governments there are truly anti-imperialist. This group
supports these regimes (overlooking their murderous records) based on
this rhetoric without looking at what these governments actually are and
what they have been doing since taking power, AND considering whoever
opposes them as an imperialist stooge. The other group supports the
uprising in Syria (but not Iraq) on the ground that it is an
anti-dictatorship uprising (thinking that the uprising in Iraq is ISIS
controlled). The following are some observations in this regard:
1- Since taking power in Iran in the late seventies, the ruling
mullah-controlled theocratic Islamic state has been calling the USA the
Great Devil and the USA has been calling Iran a terrorist state. The USA
invaded Iraq twice since then (about to do that a third time) and not a
single shot was fired by US against Iran during same period. The
“Terrorist State” joined hands with the “Great Devil” in its war on both
Iraq and Afghanistan (as indicated on several occasions by Khatami,
Rafsanjani, and Iran’s UN ambassador).
2- Since taking power in Syria in 1970, the Assad regime provided all
kinds of services to the “imperialists” including his interference in
Lebanon to wipe out the left-oriented national front, and his support
for sectarian militias there; his completion of Israel’s war against
Palestinians in refugee camps after the 1982 invasion of Lebanon; his
direct involvement, with the imperialists, in the war against Iraq in
1991 and in 2003 (and now); his participation in the so-called war on
terror after 9/11 where he provided tremendous intelligence to the
“imperialists”; and his participation (together with Iran) in the CIA’s
rendition program where he was involved in torturing suspects in his
prisons.
What is going on in the Arab Countries now is a counter-revolution (to
destroy the Arab Spring and possibly to later subdivide these countries
along sectarian/ethnic lines) led by USA and supported by all its allies
in the area which include all governments (including Gulf countries,
Iran, Syria, Egypt, Israel, etc) AND by Jihadist groups (created by USA
and these countries) that are being used as Trojan horses to fight
revolutions from within – as happened in Iraq in 2006 with the so-called
al Qaida which was responsible for the defeat of the anti-occupation
insurgency (with direct cooperation between Iran, USA), and as is
happening now in Iraq and Syria with ISIS (with direct cooperation
between USA and Iran). The objective is to try to return to the
status-quo (prior to Arab spring) where stooge governments run these
countries for the benefit of imperialists (Global like USA and regional
like Iran). The counter-revolution was successful in Egypt (through the
reactionary Muslim Brotherhood first and through the military junta
later), and to a lesser extent in Tunisia. This counter-revolution is
still going on in both Iraq and Syria, where the USA and its allies had
to interfere directly to try to defeat both of these revolutions. Of
main interests is Iraq where there are huge American/Iranian interests
(mostly oil for USA and empire dreams with associated benefits for
Iran). The following are some observations in this regard:
1- The revolution against the government in Syria did not receive any
useful support form the USA and its allies (only rhetoric). The support
provided was mainly to prop-up extreme Islamist groups (became ISIS
later) whose purpose was to destroy the revolution from within. In
addition, all Iranian support to the regime in Syria came either through
Iraq where the USA could have easily stopped it, being in control of
Iraqi airspace, or through Lebanon (where without USA approval it would
not have been done).
2- The majority of leaders of ISIS (including al-Baghdadi) were
imprisoned in BOCA by Americans in Iraq, where they were brainwashed.
They were later transferred to Abu Ghreib Prison after withdrawal of US
forces from Iraq (controlled by pro-Iran government). They were released
in 2012 form Abu Greib (they called it a breakout) and travelled through
Iraqi and Syrian government controlled areas (about 400 km) to get to
Syria without a single shot being fired at them by Iraqi (Iranian) or
Syrian forces. Other extremist leaders were released from Syrian prisons
by the government there.
3- Al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of the IS from a mosque in
Mosul. He travelled there from Syria and passed
