Speaking today at the high profile Baghdad Arab League summit, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned the league against following through with calls to arm the Syrian rebel factions in their ongoing civil war.
“Based on our experience in Iraq, the option to arm either side of the conflict will lead to a regional and international proxy war in Syria,” Maliki warned. He went on to say that it would lead to a “proxy war.”
“This option will prepare the ground for foreign military intervention in Syria and so infringe on the sovereignty of a brother Arab country,” Maliki added. The Arab League seems less supportive of intervening in recent weeks, and is now endorsing Kofi Annan’s plan for a negotiated settlement.
Syria’s Assad regime has also agreed to Annan’s plan, but has said that the program can only move forward if the rebels stop launching attacks and if the international community agrees to stop funneling support to the rebels. So far rebel factions have rejected the idea of peace talks.
This is the intention of the war in Syria and in Libya, the US and EU militarism regimes needs direct war or proxy wars to be able to have its military as it is, otherwise US and EU government and their vulture capitalism economic system will fall.
What I find interesting is Israel and the old colonial powers aka NATO are clearly the people pushing for the arming of groups. They intend to steal the old of the arabs by keeping arab killing arabs. Israel has learned that it really is a fools game so they do not supply any troops to the effort but they also know that it is very profitable so they push the really stupid policy which will one day see the arms provided being turned on the merchants of death who provided the weapons. At that time the merchants of death will cry terrorist and cry about being attacked. The merchant of death will be well protected so it will be the people of the old colonal powers aka NATO who will suffer the injuries and bury their people while the fat cats live the good live. In the long term I see the old colonial powers including the USA/Israel going bankrupt because making useless wars makes a lot of money for a few it leads to the destruction of the nations who wage wars. One might ask how the USA could fall apart but with Texas and other states going back to their past ties to Mexico could a departure of a section of the USA be possible? Israel was created by flooding an area with foreigners then declaring the land to belong to those there illegally.
Does anyone imagine that Maliki would be where he is today – wannabe dictator of Iraq – IF the US/EU had not supported the rebel factions – and basically doing their job of toppling Saddam for them? And then installing him as ruler-in-training?