The Obama administration continues to insist the Syrian rebel fighters are too fractured and disorganized to warrant intervention to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad, although advocates of the opposition still argue otherwise.
“Of course you will not get 23 million Syrians in one organization — this is impossible,” said Radwan Ziadeh, a spokesman for the Syrian National Council (SNC), a committee of Syrian exiles trying to present themselves as spokesmen for the opposition. “This hasn’t been possible in other cases or countries (either).”
But the opposition is worse than that. The entire insurgency in Syria consists of localized militias with varied interests and often conflicting agendas. They cannot be considered as a whole and many factions have committed serious crimes alongside crimes by the Syrian military.
And the SNC itself, although separated mostly from the violence on the ground, is fractured and constantly in conflict with each other. No group opposing Assad is cohesive enough to attract considerable support from Washington as a true proxy army. The added concern is that elements of al-Qaeda are currently fighting for the opposition.
For now, the White House has officially opposed direct military intervention on the grounds that it would lead to greater chaos and escalate the humanitarian crisis in the country.
“We do not believe that militarization, further militarization of the situation in Syria at this point is the right course of action,” White House Spokesman Jay Carney said. “We believe that it would lead to greater chaos, greater carnage.”
While the Obama administration rightly opposes military intervention, they have unfortunately already begun providing lethal and non-lethal aid to the Syrian opposition. This, despite the fact that the rebel fighters have committed serious atrocities themselves and that al-Qaeda elements are known to cooperate in the rebel fight against Assad.
That said, the Obama administration is currently providing both lethal and non-lethal aid to these disparate groups of thuggish militias. As Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and an expert on Syria, wrote in Foreign Policy this month, “Let’s be clear: Washington is pursuing regime change by civil war in Syria. The United States, Europe, and the Gulf states want regime change, so they are starving the regime in Damascus and feeding the opposition.”
This is likely to exacerbate the conflict, increasing and prolonging the suffering of the Syrian people. Support for the Assad regime from Russia and Iran and for the opposition from the U.S. and its allies in Europe and the Persian Gulf is emboldening both sides and preventing either from giving up and ceding to a political transition.
"The Obama administration continues to insist the Syrian rebel fighters are too fractured and disorganized to warrant intervention to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad”. That is because washington knows well that there is no “rebels” but they know that there are al-queadas, but they know that the majority of the syrian people supporting Assad and therefore the “rebels” would be defeated by the people of Syria one day…, by knowing all this and other matters it is logical for Hillary Clinton to start thinking and withdrawing her support totally for Saudis and UAE, Jordanian, the Turkish government with their stupidity supporting what is not there, it never was there but bunch of terrorists, a non democratic, a religious feudalism system as its taking shape in Libya and elsewhere.
People of Syria knows that, they have studied the outcome of Libya and they have decided not to become part of it; therefore, they say it out loud: God, Syria, Assad and thats it. Alah, Syria, Assad v, bass.
Stop the War coalition will be handing in a letter to Downing Street on Thursday 14 June at a protest picket in Downing Street, London, warning against further intervention in Syria.
USA already has a plan to show how to change government with force and tricks instead of elections:
NATO and the GCC are preparing a coup d’état and a sectarian genocide in Syria.
In a few days, perhaps as early as Friday, June 15, at noon, the Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, President Al-Assad fleeing, the rebels gathering in the big city centers, and a new government installing itself in the presidential palace.
This operation of disinformation, directly managed from Washington by Ben Rhodes, the US deputy national security adviser for strategic communication, aims at demoralizing the Syrians in order to pave the way for a coup d’etat. NATO, discontent about the double veto of Russia and China, will thus succeed in conquering Syria without attacking the country illegally. Whichever judgment you might have formed on the actual events in Syria, a coup d’etat will end all hopes of democratization.
The Arab League has officially asked the satellite operators Arabsat and Nilesat to stop broadcasting Syrian media, either public or private (Syria TV, Al-Ekbariya, Ad-Dounia, Cham TV, etc.) A precedent already exists because the Arab League had managed to censure Libyan TV in order to keep the leaders of the Jamahiriya from communicating with their people. There is no Hertz network in Syria, where TV works exclusively with satellites. The cut, however, will not leave the screens black.
Actually, this public decision is only the tip of the iceberg. According to our information several international meetings were organized during the past week to coordinate the disinformation campaign. The first two were technical meetings, held in Doha (Qatar); the third was a political meeting and took place in Riyad (Saudi Arabia).
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O8oo, it kinda looks a little outlandish, but let's wait and see what happens.
nathan, it appears so but isn't. "Black Radio" and taking over of radio channels has been a big thing since WWII.
Now the USPSW Corps flies planes over targetted countries making broadcasts.
Fake newsreels are really old hat.
The take-over of satellite channels is merely an extension.
And if Russia sends troops "at the request of the Syrian government"
(something the US has done so many times in so many countries)
– will that be deemed "permissable" and "not interferring" according to the mainstream media and the US government?
Well, if the Russians threatened with direct military action should the West not get their attack dogs on a leash, that would send the necessary chill up these lunatics spines.
I increasingly despair of antwar.com.
The Intervention is already underway and has been for the last 16 months.
Obama does not intend to directly invade Syria without "International Permission" – that ain't smart and is a War of Aggression. Particularly not in an election year.
They are running a Destabilisation and a Covert Op./Black Op.
The paramilitaries being armed and trained are theirs and not some mysterious opposition groups that have appeared from somewhere.
"The entire insurgency in Syria consists of localized militias with varied interests and often conflicting agendas" – y ou have got to be kidding.
The arming started before the Colured Revolution attempt of 16 monts ago.
As in the post above it is now been leaked a Belgrade style Coup will be attempted using extensive Disinformation and faked television broadcasts to take over Syrian TV channels, they are getting so desperate to succeed.
When will antiwar.com wake up?
Opportunities — They come only in portholes of time.
Everyone knows that the Western powers have an overabundance of “trainers” fighting along side of the anti-Syrian rebels, and fully armed with the latest war gigots, such as the laser guided missiles that have been destroying the Syrian tanks. So, why are not Russia and China doing the same for the pro-Syrian militias?
Why wait until after NATO troops have a beachhead in Syria and Iran, when the only option left is World War Three?