{"id":188477,"date":"2021-07-12T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=188477"},"modified":"2024-09-23T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:39:10","slug":"the-syria-deception-the-public-has-been-hoodwinked-yet-again-into-supporting-a-criminal-war-of-aggression-and-one-that-has-been-effectively-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/07\/the-syria-deception-the-public-has-been-hoodwinked-yet-again-into-supporting-a-criminal-war-of-aggression-and-one-that-has-been-effectively-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"The Syria Deception: The Public Has Been Hoodwinked Yet Again into Supporting a Criminal War of Aggression\u2014and One That Has Been Effectively Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Syrians in Lebanon hold portrait of leader Bashar al-Assad as they head to the polls to vote for him in May 2014 elections; Assad won with 88% of the vote.
[Source: csmonitor.com]<\/p><\/div>\n

8 Jul 2021 – <\/em>United States warmakers have become so skilled at propaganda that not only can they wage a war of aggression without arousing protest; they can also compel liberals to denounce peace activists using language reminiscent of the McCarthy era.<\/p>\n

Take the case of Syria. The people and groups one would normally count on to oppose wars have been the ones largely defending it. They have also often been the ones to label war opponents as \u201cAssad apologists\u201d or \u201cgenocide deniers\u201d\u2014causing them to be blacklisted.<\/p>\n

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Protest against bombing of Syria in Newark, New Jersey, in April 2017. Most protests against the war in Syria have been small like this, and protesters have been susceptible to ridicule as Assad lovers or apologists. [Source: northjersey.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In April, The Nation <\/em>magazine published an essay by Gilbert Achcar, a professor of international relations at the University of London and co-author with Noam Chomsky of a book critical of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, entitled \u201cHow to Avoid the Anti-Imperialism of Fools.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Achcar divides the Left into two factions\u2014one which \u201copposes all forms of imperialism and oppression,\u201d and one which \u201csupports any regime or force that is the object of Washington\u2019s hostility.\u201d The latter includes \u201cRussia\u2019s thuggish capitalist and imperialist government, or Iran\u2019s theocratic regime or the likes of Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 and Saddam Hussein.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The binary Achcar paints is misleading because it does not take into account war critics\u2019 attempts to present more nuanced portraits of American targets for regime change like Putin or Milo\u0161evi\u0107 or even Hussein that would account for their domestic popularity. Nor the value placed on the principle of national self-determination and sovereignty, and identification of the double standards of U.S. human rights concerns.<\/p>\n

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Gilbert Achcar speaking at the University of London in 2012. [Source: thegrayzone.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Achcar supports military intervention in Syria under the UN doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P)<\/a>, which enables foreign military intervention if it will stop large-scale human rights abuses.<\/p>\n

He quotes favorably in his Nation<\/em> article from a 2019 statement<\/a> signed by several prominent figures on the American Left\u2014including Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, the late David Graeber and David Harvey\u2014demanding that the United States \u201ccontinue military support for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Force,\u201d in the face of Donald Trump\u2019s announced withdrawal.<\/p>\n

This position was based on fear that if the U.S. withdrew, the Kurds would be slaughtered by Turkey, the Islamic State in the Levant (ISIS) or the \u201cmurderous Assad regime,\u201d<\/a> as Achcar termed it.<\/p>\n

The Kurds, however, were being used as a proxy force by the U.S. in a regime-change operation that would enable foreign exploitation of Syria\u2019s oil and military domination of the Middle East\u2014and would inevitably be abandoned.<\/p>\n

Western empires had used the pretext of human rights many times before to justify colonization, and recruited disaffected minority groups, which was no different in this case.<\/p>\n

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A reminder of what the war is all about: A child sifts through a rubbish dump near an oil field in the countryside of al-Malikiya in northeast Syria. [Source: aljazeera.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Voices from Syria<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mark Taliano and Basma Qaddour\u2019s book, Voices from Syria<\/em>\u2014now out in its second edition\u2014offers a strong rebuttal to Achcar and others who consider opponents of U.S. military intervention in Syria to be foolish.<\/p>\n

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[Source: amazon.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The authors\u2014one a Montreal based teacher, the other a Syrian journalist\u2014point out that the majority of Syrians consider Assad an authentic nationalist who has saved Syria from jihadist terrorists sponsored by the U.S., NATO, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel and Gulf Arab states like Qatar.<\/p>\n

The terrorists have killed an estimated 150,000 civilians and another 260,000 fighters and kidnapped thousands more, some of whom were used for illegal organ harvesting.<\/p>\n

Their goal is to impose a theocratic regime and to divide, plunder and exploit Syria and open it up to predatory foreign corporations.<\/p>\n

Taliano and Qaddour write that \u201cSyria\u2019s stand against the Western agencies of death and destruction is a stand for all humanity against the dark forces that fester beneath our politicians\u2019 empty words and the courtesan media\u2019s toxic lies.\u201d<\/p>\n

These lies have ensured that few in the U.S. or West have acknowledged Syria\u2019s heroic victory against colonial aggression\u2014a modern-day equivalent to Vietnam\u2019s victory over the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.<\/p>\n

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Parade after Syrian Arab army liberated Aleppo from jihadist extremists backed by the West in 2016. [Source: bbc.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Long-Standing Plan for Regime Change<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Two weeks after the September 11th<\/sup> attacks, General Wesley Clark was visited by a senior general who told him that the U.S. was going to attack Iraq: \u201cThe decision has basically been made.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Six weeks later, when Clark returned to Washington to visit the same general and asked whether the plans for invading Iraq were still in place, the general responded, \u201c\u2018Oh, it\u2019s worse than that,\u2019 he said, holding up a memo on his desk. \u2018Here\u2019s the paper from the Office of the Secretary of Defense [then Donald Rumsfeld] outlining the strategy. We\u2019re going to take out seven countries in five years.\u2019 And he named them<\/a>, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Donald Rumsfeld advanced a blueprint for toppling seven governments in the Middle East in five years. [Source: upi.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The key to the success of these latter operations was to convince the U.S. public that wars of aggression were military interventions carried out for humanitarian purposes. The way to do that was to give off the illusion that the targeted leaders were brutal dictators intent on waging a campaign of genocide against their own people.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Assad\u2019s Accomplishments<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Syria was a main target on Rumsfeld\u2019s list because its leader, Bashar al-Assad, was a secular nationalist like Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qaddafi of Libya, who was defiant of the West.<\/p>\n

In 2000, Bashar succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad, who had long been a thorn in the side of the West. He had allied Syria with the Soviet Union during the Cold War<\/a>, and in 1971 allowed the Russians to establish a naval base at Tartus.<\/p>\n

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[Source: hisutton.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Though vilified in the West, Bashar retains support of the majority of Syrians because he has advanced free health care and education for Syrians and retained Syrian control over most of its economy while rallying the people against foreign aggression.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Syrian city of Aleppo before and after U.S.-backed war of aggression on Syria. [Source: petapixel.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While certainly there are brutal aspects to his rule like with his father, Assad\u2019s accomplishments before the war, according to Taliano and Qaddour, included: a) construction and restoration of 10,000 mosques and 500 churches; b) construction of 8,000 schools; and c) construction of 600,000 apartment units for young people and 6,000 hospitals and clinics.<\/p>\n

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Assad family in 1980s. Hafez in lower right and Bashar on left. [Source: newrepublic.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Further, salaries increased by 300 percent under Assad\u2019s rule, thousands of new businesses sprung up, agricultural and industrial capacity increased, the illiteracy rate was kept low, and the unemployment rate declined from 28 to 12 percent.<\/p>\n

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Pro-Assad supporters at demonstration. Polls showed that Assad enjoyed the support of at least 55 percent of the Syrian population, a higher total than recent U.S. Presidents. [Source: theguardian.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These facts are at odds with the depiction of Assad as a genocidal tyrant.<\/p>\n

The latter is part of a demonization campaign initiated by intelligence agencies and embraced by factions of the Left that have unwittingly helped to advance the agenda of the U.S. empire.<\/p>\n

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Assad and his wife Asma voting in recent election that he won decisively. [Source: thewashingtonpost.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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[Source: nytimes.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cYour Obama Leading Proxy War\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In March 2011, Americans were led to believe that idealistic pro-democracy demonstrations erupted in the southern city of Daraa\u2014inspired by Arab Spring protests in Egypt and Tunisia, and following an incident of police brutality.<\/p>\n

Seven police were killed by the demonstrators in the very first protests, and 60 security forces were massacred two weeks later. The plan of the mob was to provoke a police response that would make it seem like the security forces were reacting harshly, which would discredit Assad\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n

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Protests in Daraa in March 2011. Note one of the supposedly peaceful demonstrators brandishing a knife. [Source: edition.cnn.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the first three weeks, police and security personnel were under orders, though, not to carry guns.<\/p>\n

As the protests spread, foreign terrorists began descending on Syria and were paid $300-$400 per month. Although Syrian soldiers were paid only one-tenth of that amount, they remained mostly loyal to the Syrian government.<\/p>\n

Majd al-Zaim, a Syrian, stated that what had happened in Syria was \u201cnot a revolution or civil war [as has been depicted in the Western media]. The terrorists are sent by your government [the U.S.]. They are Al-Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra, Wahhabi, Salafist, Talibans and the extremist jihadists are sent by the West, Saudis, Qataris, Turkey\u2026. Your Obama and whoever is behind him or above him are supporting Al-Qaeda and leading a proxy war on my country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Barack Obama ordered the CIA\u2019s largest covert operation since Afghanistan in the 1980s which destroyed Syria. Somehow he remains a revered figure in liberal circles. [Source: foreignpolicy.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Historical Background <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Historically, Syria faced divisions between secular nationalist and Shia Alawites and Sunni fundamentalists who allied with the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n

In 1982, Hafez al-Assad crushed an Islamic rebellion (the Hama massacre), foreshadowing his son\u2019s actions 30 years later.<\/p>\n

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A scene from Hama after the 1982 massacre. [Source: pbs.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A July 1986 declassified CIA document outlined a U.S. strategy in Syria that was hostile to Assad\u2014as it remains. The document stated that \u201cIn our view, U.S. interests would be best served by a Sunni regime controlled by business-oriented moderates. Business moderates would see a strong need for Western aid and investment to build Syria\u2019s private economy, thus opening the way for stronger t<\/a>ies to Western governments.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report acknowledged that the collapse of the Ba\u2019athist state presided over by Assad could help to empower \u201creligious zealots\u201d seeking to establish \u201can Islamic Republic.\u201d\u00a0<\/a> But this was a risk that Washington was willing to take.<\/p>\n

Twenty years later, the Charg\u00e9 D\u2019affaires at the U.S. embassy in Damascus, William Roebuck, in a leaked diplomatic cable, referred to the threat to the Assad regime from Islamic extremists as \u201can opportunity that the U.S. should take action to try to increase.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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William Roebuck [Source: fresh-syria.net<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roebuck also pushed for better coordination with Egypt and Saudi Arabia in provoking sectarian divisions by exaggerating Iranian influence<\/a> along with a rumor campaign against Assad, and arming of the Kurds<\/a> as part of a destabilization strategy, which was implemented under Obama.<\/p>\n

An Inhuman Enemy<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Voices from Syria<\/em> tells the stories of the victims of U.S. policy like Ammar, whose sister was killed by a Wahhabi suicide bomber while she was on her way to the local university.<\/p>\n

Ammar said that, after the first blast, another suicide bomber blew himself up in the same place, taking advantage of the gathering of people and ambulance teams. At the hospital, Ammar saw many burned and charred bodies, including his sister, who was now a \u201cbody without a soul\u201d\u2014like so many others.<\/p>\n

Lilly Martin, an American living in Syria, is quoted in Voices from Syria<\/em> as stating that she could not vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election because Clinton had overseen \u201cthe transfer of weapons from Libya to Turkey to be used specifically by the American-backed terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n

These terrorists destroyed Martin\u2019s home on March 21, 2014, beheaded her Christian neighbors and kidnapped and raped the old ladies.<\/p>\n

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Lilly Martin [Source: muckrack.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Dr. Declan Hayes described an attack by al-Nusra (U.S.-backed jihadi group) on the village of Kesab where the terrorists swarmed across the border on motorbikes, pick-up trucks, and Western ambulances, and proceeded to desecrate all of Kesab\u2019s churches, loot the village graves and strip the houses of anything of value.<\/p>\n

Pepken Djourian and his wife saw their only son executed in front of them, after which his body was left to rot in the sun before being thrown into the ground like a dog.<\/p>\n

In another case, terrorists beheaded and executed a captured soldier while he was speaking to his father on the phone so he could hear his son being killed.<\/p>\n

The terrorists further roasted bakery workers in a town loyal to Assad in an oven and slaughtered staff at a medical clinic and displayed their severed heads in the marketplace for intimidation.<\/p>\n

Operation Timber Sycamore<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Some of the head choppers were trained by U.S. military advisers at terrorist training camps in Jordan under the CIA\u2019s $1 billion Operation Sycamore, the largest covert operation since the arming of the mujahadin fighters in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union in the 1980s.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A trainee with the Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces learns how to use his AK-47-style rifle at a secret training camp in Jordan. [Source: balkaninsight.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Turkish helicopters could be seen overhead during armed terrorist invasions of towns while the Syrian Arab Army was fighting insurgents who wore Turkish military uniforms and carried Turkish military identification.<\/p>\n

The Israelis allowed Al Qaeda militants, Jabhat al-Nusra, to use the occupied Golan Heights to fight against the Syrian Army, while the Israeli Air Force repeatedly bombed Syria.<\/p>\n

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[Source: youtube.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Russia to the Rescue<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In \u201cHow to Avoid the Anti-Imperialism of Fools,\u201d<\/a> Gilbert Achcar criticized U.S. and British- based anti-war groups for failing to condemn Russian imperialism in Syria.<\/p>\n

Many Syrians, however, laud the Russians for helping to save their country.<\/p>\n

Ammar told Taliano and Qaddour that \u201cthe Russians provided the biggest humanitarian aid by supporting the Syrian Armed Forces against Western backed barbarian terrorism,\u201d and that Russian aid\u2014including food and medical supplies\u2014was distributed directly to needy people.<\/p>\n

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Russian troops in Deir ez-Zor province amidst backdrop of photos of President Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad. [Source: Aljazeera.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lilly Martin stated that Russia had \u201csaved the Syrian Coast\u201d\u2014along with Syrian towns like Kesab that were on the verge of destruction by the CIA-backed terrorists.<\/p>\n

Cruel Economic War<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The cruelty of Western policy is exemplified by its economic war on Syria, about which Achcar and his associates have been silent.<\/p>\n

The goal of the economic war has been to weaken Syria and demoralize its people so as to pave the way for Syria\u2019s conquest.<\/p>\n

Militias affiliated with both the U.S. and Turkey blocked the sale by Syrian peasants of wheat and barley east of the Euphrates, thus exacerbating the food shortage in the country.<\/p>\n

They have sold oil illegally in northern Iraq and set fires in an attempt to decimate Syria\u2019s yield of strategic crops. Many of the fires have targeted olive trees, which are used to produce olive oil\u2014a source of livelihood for many Syrians.<\/p>\n

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People battle a blaze in an agricultural field, in the breadbasket Al-Hasakah province near the Syrian-Turkish border. [Source: theguardian.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The economic sanctions have further prevented needed medical supplies and equipment from getting into Syria and caused milk shortages resulting in the deaths of children.<\/p>\n

Fraudulent Pretexts<\/strong><\/h2>\n

These sanctions have been legitimated by false propaganda.<\/p>\n

The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, which was signed into law in December 2019 by President Donald Trump, was named after a government defector, Caesar, who leaked thousands of photographs alleging torture of civilians by Assad\u2019s security forces.<\/p>\n

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CNN show discussing Caesar\u2019s \u201ctorture\u201d report that was a basis for extending sanctions. [Source: mondialisation.ca<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nearly half the photos actually showed government soldiers who had been killed and victims of car bombs and other war-related violence, and many others showed soldiers who had died in combat\u2014not government torture centers.<\/a><\/p>\n

Caesar\u2019s identity was also unclear and he was suspected of being in the employ of the CIA.<\/p>\n

More Bright Shining Lies <\/strong><\/h2>\n

American-educated opinion about the Syria conflict has been forged by numerous other deceptions.<\/p>\n

These include allegations of chemical weapons attacks by Assad\u2014which most Syrians believe were \u201cstaged by the terrorists helped by the USA and UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another deception surrounds the White Helmets\u2014a group of Western-funded humanitarian aid workers that received endorsement from A-list celebrities like George Clooney.<\/p>\n

Financed in part by the United States Agency of International Development (USAID), the White Helmets were led by a suspected British MI6 agent, James Le Mesurier, who died under suspicious circumstances in November 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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James Le Mesurier, who led the White Helmets, was a suspected British MI6 agent who died under suspicious circumstances in November 2019. [Source: rt.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They staged scenes for public relations purposes, assisted in public executions<\/a>, and functioned as an Al Qaeda affiliate, according to Taliano and Qaddour, which occupied and destroyed more than 7,000 schools.<\/p>\n

\"Syrian
Members of White Helmets assisting victims of bombing attack. [Source: theintercept.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The War on Terror Is a Fraud<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Syrian War exemplifies that the War on Terror is a fraud.<\/p>\n

The U.S. government has claimed for the last two decades to be fighting the scourge of terrorism, but has armed, trained, and supported Islamic terrorists in Syria as part of an imperial strategy designed to control the country\u2019s oil wealth and dominate the entire region.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another motive is to provoke destabilization so as to justify endless war\u2014which brings huge profits to war industries that fund both major political parties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

U.S. policy in Syria is no anomaly as the U.S. has supported Islamic fundamentalists in Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Gulf Arab states like Qatar, which allows terrorist financiers to operate in its borders.<\/p>\n

Only a very limited number of Americans have recognized the dangers of this strategy\u2014owing in large part to the sophisticated propaganda that has effectively brainwashed many of those who would traditionally identify themselves as antiwar.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Declassified British documents obtained by The Grayzone Project<\/em> showed that Achcar trained British Cultural Defense Units who played a key role in the British war in Afghanistan. The Units have also advised the military on how to operate in other countries, including those that were at one time colonized by Great Britain. See Ben Norton, \u201cElite UK military unit secretly trained by leftist regime-change advocate Gibert Achcar and other academics,\u201d The Grayzone Project<\/em>, October 3, 2019, https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2019\/10\/03\/leftist-regime-change-activist-gilbert-achcar-academics-train-uk-military\/<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    \"\"<\/a>Jeremy Kuzmarov is Managing Editor of <\/em>CovertAction Magazine and author of four books on U.S. foreign policy, including <\/em>Obama\u2019s Unending Wars (Clarity Press, 2019) and T<\/em>he Russians Are Coming, Again, with John Marciano (Monthly Review Press, 2018). He can be reached at: jkuzmarov2@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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