{"id":57482,"date":"2015-05-04T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=57482"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:24:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:24:42","slug":"the-day-after-damascus-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/05\/the-day-after-damascus-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day after Damascus Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saudi-Israeli alliance has gone on the offensive, ramping up a \u201cregime change\u201d war in Syria and, in effect, promoting a military victory for Al-Qaeda or its spinoff, the Islamic State. But the consequences of that victory could toll the final bell for the American Republic.<\/em><\/p>\n

If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meets the same fate as Libya\u2019s Muammar Gaddafi or Iraq\u2019s Saddam Hussein, much of Official Washington would rush out to some chic watering hole to celebrate \u2013 one more \u201cbad guy\u201d down, one more \u201cregime change\u201d notch on the belt. But the day after Damascus falls could mark the beginning of the end for the American Republic.<\/p>\n

As Syria would descend into even bloodier chaos \u2013 with an Al-Qaeda affiliate or its more violent spin-off, the Islamic State, the only real powers left \u2013 the first instinct of American politicians and pundits would be to cast blame, most likely at President Barack Obama for not having intervened more aggressively earlier.<\/p>\n

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in front of a poster of his father, Hafez al-Assad.<\/p><\/div>\n

A favorite myth of Official Washington is that Syrian \u201cmoderates\u201d would have prevailed if only Obama had bombed the Syrian military and provided sophisticated weapons to the rebels.<\/p>\n

Though no such \u201cmoderate\u201d rebel movement ever existed \u2013 at least not in any significant numbers \u2013 that reality is ignored by all the \u201csmart people\u201d of Washington. It is simply too good a talking point to surrender. The truth is that Obama was right when he told<\/a> \u00a0New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman in August 2014 that the notion of a \u201cmoderate\u201d rebel force that could achieve much was \u201calways \u2026 a fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n

As much fun as the \u201cwho lost Syria\u201d finger-pointing would be, it would soon give way to the horror of what would likely unfold in Syria with either Al-Qaeda\u2019s Nusra Front or the spin-off Islamic State in charge \u2013 or possibly a coalition of the two with Al-Qaeda using its new base to plot terror attacks on the West while the Islamic State engaged in its favorite pastime, those YouTube decapitations of infidels \u2013 Alawites, Shiites, Christians, even some descendants of the survivors from Turkey\u2019s Armenian genocide a century ago who fled to Syria for safety.<\/p>\n

Such a spectacle would be hard for the world to watch and there would be\u00a0demands on President Obama or his successor to \u201cdo something.\u201d But realistic options would be few, with a shattered and scattered Syrian army no longer a viable force capable of driving the terrorists from power.<\/p>\n

The remaining option would be to send in the American military, perhaps with some European allies, to try to dislodge Al-Qaeda and\/or the Islamic State. But the prospects for success would be slim. The goal of conquering Syria \u2013 and possibly re-conquering much of Iraq as well \u2013 would be costly, bloody and almost certainly futile.<\/p>\n

The further diversion of resources and manpower from America\u2019s domestic needs also would fuel the growing social discontent in major U.S. cities, like what is now playing out in Baltimore where disaffected African-American communities are rising up in anger against poverty and the police brutality that goes with it. A new war in the Middle East would accelerate America\u2019s descent into bankruptcy and a dystopian police state.<\/p>\n

The last embers of the American Republic would fade. In its place would be endless war and a single-minded devotion to security. The National Security Agency already has in place the surveillance capabilities to ensure that any civil resistance could be thwarted.<\/p>\n

Can This Fate Be Avoided?<\/strong><\/p>\n

But is there a way to avoid this grim fate? Is there a way to wind this scenario back to some point before this outcome becomes inevitable? Can the U.S. political\/media system \u2013 as corrupt and cavalier as it is \u2013 find a way to avert such a devastating foreign policy disaster?<\/p>\n

To do so would require Official Washington to throw off old dependencies, such as its obeisance to the Israel Lobby, and old habits, such as its reliance on manipulative PR to control the American people, patterns deeply engrained in the political process.<\/p>\n

At least since the Reagan administration \u2013 with its \u201ckick the Vietnam Syndrome\u201d fascination via \u201cpublic diplomacy\u201d and \u201cperception management\u201d \u2013 the tendency has been to designate some foreign leader as the latest new villain and then whip up public hysteria in support of a \u201cregime change.\u201d [See Consortiumnews.com\u2019s \u201cThe Victory of Perception Management.<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, we saw the use of these \u201cblack hat\/white hat\u201d exaggerations in Nicaragua, where\u00a0 President Ronald Reagan deemed\u00a0President Daniel Ortega \u201cthe dictator in designer glasses\u201d as Reagan\u2019s propagandists depicted Sandinista-ruled Nicaragua as a \u201ctotalitarian dungeon\u201d and the CIA-trained Contra \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d the \u201cmoral equal of the Founding Fathers.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, since Ortega and the Sandinistas were surely not the embodiment of all virtue, it was hard to put Reagan\u2019s black-and-white depiction into the proper shades of gray. To make the effort opened you to charges of being a \u201cSandinista apologist.\u201d Similarly, any negative news about the Contras \u2013 such as their tendencies to rape, murder, torture and smuggle drugs \u2013 was sternly suppressed with offending U.S. journalists targeted for career retaliation.<\/p>\n

The pattern set by Reagan around Nicaragua and other Central American conflicts became the blueprint for how to carry out these post-Vietnam War propaganda operations. Afterwards came Panama\u2019s \u201cmadman\u201d Manuel Noriega in 1989 and Iraq\u2019s \u201cworse than Hitler\u201d Saddam Hussein in 1990-91. Each American war was given its own villainous lead actor.<\/p>\n

In 2002-03, Hussein was brought back to reprise his \u201cworse-than-Hitler\u201d role in a\u00a0post-9\/11 sequel. His new evil-doing involved sharing nuclear weapons and other WMD with Al-Qaeda so the terror group could inflict even worse havoc on the innocent United States. Anyone who questioned Official Washington\u2019s WMD \u201cgroup think\u201d was\u00a0dismissed as a \u201cSaddam apologist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amid this enforced consensus, there was great joy when the U.S.-led invasion overthrew Hussein\u2019s government and captured him. \u201cWe got him,\u201d U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer exulted when Hussein was pulled from a \u201cspider hole\u201d and was soon heading to the gallows.<\/p>\n

However, some of the triumphal excitement wore off when the U.S. occupation forces failed to discover the promised caches of WMD. Hussein\u2019s ouster also didn\u2019t produce the sunny new day that America\u2019s neocons had promised for Iraq and the Middle East. Instead, Al-Qaeda, which had not existed under Hussein\u2019s secular regime, found fertile soil to plant its \u201cAl-Qaeda in Iraq,\u201d a radical Sunni movement which pioneered a particularly graphic form of terrorist violence.<\/p>\n

That brutality, often directed at Shiites, was met with brutality in kind from Iraq\u2019s new Shiite leadership, touching off a sectarian civil war. Meanwhile, the war against the U.S. occupation turned into a messy struggle between America\u2019s high-tech military and Iraq\u2019s low-tech resistance.<\/p>\n

Lessons Unlearned<\/strong><\/p>\n

What Americans should have learned from Iraq was that just because the neocons and their liberal-interventionist friends identify a foreign \u201cbad guy\u201d \u2013 and then exaggerate his faults \u2013 doesn\u2019t mean that his violent removal is the best idea. It might actually lead to something worse. There is wisdom in the doctor\u2019s oath, \u201cfirst, do no harm,\u201d and there\u2019s truth in the old warning that before you tear down a wall, you should ask why someone built it in the first place.<\/p>\n

However, in the propaganda world of Official Washington, a different lesson was learned: that it is easy to create designated villains and no one of importance will dare challenge the wisdom of removing that villain through another \u201cregime change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead of the neocons and their liberal helpers being held accountable and removed from the corridors of power, they entrenched themselves more deeply inside the U.S. government, mainstream media and big-name think tanks. They also found new allies among the self-righteous \u201chuman rights\u201d community espousing the theory of \u201cresponsibility to protect\u201d or \u201cR2P.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite President Obama\u2019s election \u2013 partly driven by the American people\u2019s revulsion over the neocon excesses during President George W. Bush\u2019s administration \u2013 there was no real purge of the neocons and their accomplices. Indeed, Obama kept in place Bush\u2019s Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the neocons\u2019 beloved Gen. David Petraeus while installing neocon-lite Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Around Obama at the White House were prominent R2Pers such as Samantha Power.<\/p>\n

So, although Obama may have personally favored a more realist-driven foreign policy that would deal with the world as it is, not as one might dream it to be, he never took control of his own administration, passively accepting the rise of a new generation of interventionists who continued depicting designated foreign villains as evil and rejecting any discouraging word that \u201cregime change\u201d might actually unleash even worse evil.<\/p>\n

In 2011, the R2Pers, as the neocons\u2019 junior partners, largely initiated the U.S.-orchestrated \u201cregime change\u201d in Libya, which starred Muammar Gaddafi in a returning role as \u201cthe world\u2019s most dangerous man.\u201d All the old terror charges against him were resurrected, including some like the Pam Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 that he very likely didn\u2019t do. But, again, no one wanted to quibble because that would make you a \u201cGaddafi apologist.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, to the gleeful delight of Secretary of State Clinton, Gaddafi was overthrown, captured, beaten, sodomized with a knife, and then murdered. Clinton made no effort to conceal her glee. \u201cWe came, we saw, he died,\u201d she joked<\/a> at the news of his murder (although it was not clear that she knew all the grisly details at the time).<\/p>\n

But Gaddafi\u2019s demise did not bring Nirvana to Libya. Indeed, Gaddafi\u2019s warning about the need to attack Islamic terrorists operating in eastern Libya \u2013 his military offensive that led to the R2P demand that Obama intervene militarily to stop Gaddafi \u2013 proved to be prophetic.<\/p>\n

Extremists grabbed control of much of Libya. They overran the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, killing the U.S. ambassador and three other U.S. diplomatic personnel. A civil war has now spread anarchy and mayhem across Libya and nearby countries.<\/p>\n

Libya also now has its own branch of the Islamic State, which videotaped its beheadings of Coptic Christians along a beach on the Mediterranean Sea, a sickening sign of what could be expected after a possible Syrian \u201cregime change\u201d next. [See Consortiumnews.com\u2019s \u201cThe US Hand in Libya\u2019s Tragedy<\/a>.\u201d]<\/p>\n

On to Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n

While U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and other R2Pers took the lead in provoking the Libyan fiasco, neocon holdovers demonstrated their own \u201cregime change\u201d skills by turning a pedestrian political dispute in Ukraine \u2013 about how fast to build new economic ties to Europe while maintaining old ones with Russia \u2013 into not only a civil war in Ukraine but a revival of the Cold War between the United States and Russia.<\/p>\n

In the Ukraine case, the neocons made elected President Viktor Yanukovych wear the black hat with Russian President Vladimir Putin fitted for even a bigger black hat. So, as Yanukovych and Putin were scripted as the new \u201cbad guys,\u201d the anti-Yanukovych protesters and rioters at the Maidan square were made into the white-hatted \u201cgood guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much as with the Sandinistas and the Contras in the 1980s, this dichotomy required assigning all evil to Yanukovych and Putin while absolving the Maidan crowd of all sins, including the key role played by neo-Nazi militias in both the Feb. 22, 2014 coup and the subsequent civil war. [See Consortiumnews.com\u2019s \u201cSeeing No Neo-Nazi Militias in Ukraine.<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n

As the Ukraine crisis has played out, Official Washington and the mainstream U.S. news media have consistently placed all blame for the violence on Yanukovych \u2013 lodging the dubious charge that he had snipers kill both police and protesters on Feb. 20, 2014 \u2013 or on Putin \u2013 fingering him for the still-unsolved case of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shoot-down on July 17, 2014.<\/p>\n

Evidence that suggests that right-wing Ukrainian elements were responsible for those pivotal events is sloughed off with anyone daring to dispute the conventional wisdom deemed a \u201cPutin apologist.\u201d [See Consortiumnews.com\u2019s \u201cHow Ukraine Commemorates the Holocaust.<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, starting in 2011, the neocons and the R2Pers were both active in pushing for the overthrow of Syria\u2019s President Assad, who \u2013 like all the other \u201cbad guys\u201d \u2013 has been made into a one-dimensional villain brutalizing innocent \u201cmoderates\u201d who stand for all that is good and right in the world.<\/p>\n

The fact that the anti-Assad opposition has always included Sunni extremists and terrorists drawing support from Saudi Arabia and other authoritarian Sunni Persian Gulf states is another inconvenient truth that usually gets kept out of the mainstream narrative.<\/p>\n

Though it\u2019s surely true that both sides in the Syrian civil war have engaged in atrocities, the neocon-R2P storyline \u2013 for much of the civil war \u2013 was to consistently blame Assad and to conveniently absolve the rebels. Thus, on Aug. 21, 2013, when a mysterious sarin gas attack killed several hundred people in a Damascus suburb, the rush to judgment blamed Assad\u2019s forces, despite logic and evidence that it was more likely a provocation by rebel extremists. [See Consortiumnews.com\u2019s \u201cA Fact-Resistant \u2018Group Think\u2019 on Syria.<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n

Though it was less clear in August 2013, it soon became obvious that the most effective rebel fighters were Al-Qaeda\u2019s Nusra Front and the Islamic State, which had evolved from the hyper-violent \u201cAl-Qaeda in Iraq\u201d into the \u201cIslamic State of Iraq and Syria\u201d before adopting the name, \u201cIslamic State.\u201d By September 2013, many of the U.S.-armed and CIA-trained fighters of the Free Syrian Army had thrown in their lot with either Nusra Front or Islamic State. [See Consortiumnews.com\u2019s \u201cSyrian Rebels Embrace Al-Qaeda.<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n

No Self-Criticism<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the opinion leaders of Official Washington are not exactly self-critical when they misread a foreign crisis. To explain why the beloved Syrian \u201cmoderates\u201d joined forces with Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State, the neocons and the R2Pers blamed Obama for not intervening militarily earlier to achieve \u201cregime change\u201d against Assad.<\/p>\n

In other words, no lessons were learned from the experiences in Iraq and Libya \u2013 that \u201cregime change\u201d is a dangerous strategy that fails to take into account the complexities of the countries where the United States decides to overthrow governments.<\/p>\n

The same unlearned lesson should have applied to Ukraine, a strategically important nation to Russia and one in which much of the population is ethnic Russian. But there neocon Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland brushed aside the possibility of a costly showdown with Russia \u2013 a conflict that could potentially evolve into a nuclear conflagration \u2013 in order to pursue the \u201cregime change\u201d model.<\/p>\n

While Ukraine today remains engulfed in chaos \u2013 the same as \u201cregime change\u201d experiments Iraq and Libya \u2013 the most potentially catastrophic \u201cregime change\u201d could come in Syria. The neocons and the R2Pers \u2013 as well as the mainstream U.S. media \u2013 remain set on ousting Assad, a goal also shared by Israel, Saudi Arabia and other hard-line Sunni states.<\/p>\n

For his part, President Obama seems incapable of making the tough decisions that would avert a Syrian victory by Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. That\u2019s because to help salvage the Assad regime \u2013 as the preferable alternative to transforming Syria into the bedlam of \u201cterror central\u201d \u2013 would require cooperating with Iran and Russia, Assad\u2019s two most important backers.<\/p>\n

That, in turn, would infuriate the neocons, the R2Pers and the mainstream media. Obama would face a rebellion across Official Washington, where the debating points regarding \u201cwho lost Syria\u201d are more valuable than taking realistic actions to protect vital American interests.<\/p>\n

Obama would also have to face down both Saudi Arabia and Israel, something he does not seem capable of doing, especially as he tries to salvage an international agreement to restrict Iran\u2019s nuclear program to peaceful purposes only \u2013 when Saudi Arabia and Israel want to enlist the U.S. military in another \u201cregime change\u201d war in Iran.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the recent decision by the Saudi-Israeli alliance to go on the offensive against what it deems Iranian \u201cproxies\u201d is possibly the major reason why the United States is incapable of taking action to avert what may be an impending Al-Qaeda\/Islamic State victory in Syria. Between Saudi Arabia\u2019s power over finance and energy and Israel\u2019s political and media clout, these \u201cstrange-bedfellow\u201d allies wield enormous influence over Official Washington. [See Consortiumnews.com\u2019s \u201cDid Money Seal Israeli-Saudi Alliance?<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n

This alliance is now entangling the United States in ancient Sunni-Shiite rivalries dating back to the Seventh Century. Saudi Arabia, Israel and their many U.S. backers are gluing black hats on Shiite-ruled Iran and its allies while adjusting white hats on the Saudi royals and Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has unleashed\u00a0the potent Israel Lobby to get Official Washington in line.<\/p>\n

Israel also has intensified its airstrikes inside Syria, bombing targets associated with Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah militia which is supporting the Assad regime. Israel rationalizes these attacks as designed to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining sophisticated weaponry but the practical effect is to weaken the forces battling Al-Qaeda\u2019s Nusra Front and the Islamic State.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, along with Turkey and some Persian Gulf states, has stepped up support for the Sunni Islamists battling Assad\u2019s army, thus explaining the recent surge of new recruits and improved fighting capabilities of the rebels.<\/p>\n

Yemen\u2019s Suffering<\/strong><\/p>\n

In another front in this Sunni-Shiite regional war, Saudi Arabia \u2013 deploying sophisticated American warplanes \u2013 continues to pummel neighboring Yemen where Houthi rebels, belonging to a Shiite offshoot, have gained control of the capital Sanaa and other major cities.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Saudi jets bombed<\/a> Sanaa\u2019s airport to prevent an Iranian humanitarian aid flight from landing, but the destruction also made the runway unusable for other supplies desperately needed by the Yemeni people. While the Saudis prevented this aid from the air, the U.S. Navy has mounted what amounts to a blockade at sea, turning back nine Iranian ships last weekend because of unconfirmed suspicions that weapons might be hidden in the food and medicine.<\/p>\n

The combination of these interdictions is creating a humanitarian crisis in Yemen, the poorest nation in the Middle East. The U.S. Navy, which likes to call itself \u201ca global force for good,\u201d has, in effect, been drawn into a strategy of starving the Yemeni people into submission as just more collateral damage in the Saudi war against Iranian influence.<\/p>\n

Another consequence of the Saudi air campaign has been to boost \u201cAl-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula\u201d which has exploited the Saudi targeting of Houthi forces to seize more territory in Yemen\u2019s east.<\/p>\n

Yet, as tragic as the Yemeni situation is becoming, the more consequential crisis is emerging in Syria, where some analysts are seeing signs<\/a> of a possible collapse of the Assad regime, a chief goal of the Saudi-Israeli alliance. Senior Israelis have been saying since 2013 that they would prefer a victory by Al-Qaeda over a victory by Assad.<\/p>\n

For instance, in September 2013, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, then a close adviser to Prime Minister Netanyahu, told the Jerusalem Post in an interview<\/a>: \u201cThe greatest danger to Israel is by the strategic arc that extends from Tehran, to Damascus to Beirut. And we saw the Assad regime as the keystone in that arc. \u2026 We always wanted Bashar Assad to go, we always preferred the bad guys who weren\u2019t backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran.\u201d\u00a0He said this was the case even if the \u201cbad guys\u201d were affiliated with Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

In June 2014, Oren expanded on this thinking at an Aspen Institute conference, extending Israel\u2019s preference to include even the hyper-brutal Islamic State. \u201cFrom Israel\u2019s perspective, if there\u2019s got to be an evil that\u2019s got to prevail, let the Sunni evil prevail,\u201d Oren said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During Netanyahu\u2019s March 3, 2015 speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, he also downplayed the danger from the Islamic State \u2013 with its \u201cbutcher knives, captured weapons and YouTube\u201d \u2013 compared to Iran, which he accused of \u201cgobbling up the nations\u201d of the Middle East. However, Iran has not gobbled up any nations in the Middle East. It has not invaded any country for centuries. [See Consortiumnews.com\u2019s \u201cInventing a Record of Iranian Aggression<\/a>.\u201d]<\/p>\n

Yet, while the Saudi-Israeli alarums about Iran may border on the hysterical, the alliance\u2019s combined influence over Official Washington cannot be overstated. Thus, as absurd and outrageous as many of the claims are, they are not only taken seriously, they are treated as gospel. Anyone who points to the reality immediately becomes an \u201cIranian apologist.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the power of the Saudi-Israeli alliance is not simply a political curiosity or an obstacle to sensible policies. As it creates the conditions for an Al-Qaeda\/Islamic State victory in Syria \u2013 and the possible reintroduction of the U.S. military into the middle of the Middle East \u2013 the Saudi-Israeli alliance has become an existential threat to the survival of the American Republic.<\/p>\n

As the nation\u2019s first presidents wisely recognized, there are grave dangers to a republic when it entangles itself in foreign conflicts. It\u2019s almost always wiser to seek out realistic albeit imperfect political solutions or at least to evaluate what the negative ramifications of the military option might be before undertaking it. Otherwise, as the early presidents realized, if the country plunges into one costly conflict after another, it becomes a martial state, not a democratic republic.<\/p>\n

_____________________________<\/p>\n

Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for <\/em>The Associated Press and <\/em>Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his latest book, <\/em>America\u2019s Stolen Narrative,<\/em> either in\u00a0<\/em>print here<\/a>\u00a0or as an e-book (from Amazon<\/a> and barnesandnoble.com<\/a>). <\/em><\/p>\n

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