WHY AMERICA WANTS TO ATTACK SYRIA?

WHY AMERICA WANTS TO ATTACK SYRIA?

Orient Tendencies 

Partners | Beirut (Lebanon) | 9 September 2013

By Ghaleb Kandil

The first factor is the failure of the indirect war launched two years ago to destroy the Syrian state. An even more resounding failure , that enormous resources were mobilized by the United States and its agents to achieve this goal. But the Syrian government has resisted, under the leadership of its President Bashar al- Assad, and all attempts have met with the strength of the Syrian Arab Army, which has taken the initiative on the ground and absorbed and pushed successive waves launched by tens of thousands of foreign mercenaries from 80 countries. The last wave came from Jordan, where Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan , the real leader of Al-Qaeda, has gathered 20,000 extremists trained for months by U.S. French and British Special Forces.

The groups of Al-Qaeda in Syria are the main tool of the Americans. Their latest plan was to make a breakthrough in Damascus. But the waves of jihadist-Takfirist were broken on the rampart of the Syrian army, which has launched a preventive attack  around the capital.

Second factor: It is clear that the resistance of the Syrian state all that time was the main catalyst for the emergence of new international equilibrium. This resistance was used as leverage to oppose the unilateral hegemony of the United States by countries, such as Russia, China and more generally members of brics, who have been active. During various episodes of aggression against Syria, Washington has had to bow to the demands of a new international partnership by accepting, at least theoretically, arrangements with Russia, including the Geneva 1 and 2. But soon, the United States tried to empty these arrangements from their contents before trying to kill them.

The direct aggression against Syria remains, for the United States, the last and only way to test their abilities to renew their unilateral hegemony over the world, and turn on the partnership that they did seem to accept. For the end of the hegemony means the end of privileges and interests that Americans have accumulated the past quarter century as a single power on the world scene, since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Accepting a multipolar world will lead , inevitably, to a revolution in international relations and to a change in the structure of the United Nations, manipulated all these years by Washington to serve his interests.

Third factor: the fate of Israel and the Arab-puppet is at the heart of the aggression against Syria. Indeed, the alliance formed by the West, Israel, the backward monarchies and Turkey knows that the victory of Syria and President Bashar al- Assad will trigger an Arab nationalist wave hostile to the Zionist movement and the colonial forces in the region. This victory will strengthen Syria, Iran and the resistance movements that have managed to break the Israeli deterrence during successive wars, including the July 2006 Lebanon. It is, moreover, the real purpose of aggression against Syria since March 2011.

Fourth factor: a possible victory of Syria constitute a strategic threat to the United States and its auxiliaries, especially in the era of decisive changes that are taking place in Egypt, after the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood. Such a victory would necessarily tighten the noose on Israel. America and its agents have one last card to play: the direct military intervention in Syria.

But Syria is not alone in the field. Unlike Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, it is at heart a regional axis that recorded successive victories over Israel since 1982 in four major wars, in addition to dozens of other military and politico-diplomatic confrontations. This axis is now supported by a great power, Russia, long humiliated by the United States, and is now determined to regain its central position on the international scene.

In this new standoff imposed by America, the axis of the resistance and its international allies are showing strength. This is especially the resistance of Syria, its president, its people and its army, which encourages them not to yield to the threats of America. And when these threats are realized in action, the United States and its auxiliaries will be surprised by the response capacity of the axis that runs from Tehran to Moscow, via Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Beijing.

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