US-Sponsored
Genocide in Syria
Global
Research, July 10, 2016
Region: USA
From
the republic’s inception, America waged genocidal wars without mercy, rule of
law principles discarded, conquest and dominance sought at any price.
At home,
America’s native people were virtually exterminated, survivors consigned to
concentration camp-like reservations, treated more like animals than people,
impoverished, abused and denied their fundamental rights.
Abroad, one
country after another was raped and destroyed, endless horrors continuing. Tens
of millions of death attest to a ruthless state masquerading as democratic and
peace-loving – an Orwellian world in fact, not fiction.
Cold hard
reality exposes horrifying truths – a nation bent on world conquest and
colonization, its resources looted, its people exploited, nonbelievers
slaughtered, imprisoned, disappeared or otherwise eliminated.
Where does it
end? Will neocon lunatics in Washington use nuclear and other super-weapons?
Syria is one
of many US war theaters, using ISIS and other terrorist groups as imperial foot
soldiers, backed by American air power, pretending to combat the scourge it
supports.
Endless war
continues, peace talks and cessation of hostilities farcical. Clinton, if
elected president, and her likely secretary of WAR Michele Flournoy favor
escalated conflict, including no-fly or no-bombing zones, along with greater
numbers of US combat troops involved.
Both are
warriors, favoring war over diplomatic solutions, wanting Assad forcibly
toppled, risking direct confrontation with Russia – Putin wanting Syrian
sovereignty and territorial integrity protected, its people alone deciding
who’ll lead them.
Days earlier,
Syria declared a three-day truce, then extended it another 72 hours – a futile
gesture. Foreign-backed terrorists don’t take holidays.
John Kerry
lied, saying “(w)e very much welcome the Syrian army declaring of 72 hours of
quiet. We are trying very hard to grow these current discussions into a longer
lasting…enforceable, accountable cessation of hostilities that could change the
dynamics on the ground.”
At the same
time, Washington continues supporting terrorists mischaracterized as moderates,
wanting endless war, Assad toppled, US-controlled puppet leadership replacing
him, another nation destroyed by imperial madness.
In letters to
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and current Security Council president
(Japan’s) Koro Bessho, Syria’s Foreign Ministry blasted the hypocrisy of
America, NATO and regional countries, pretending to want terrorism eliminated
while actively supporting it, saying:
In
continuation of the policies of destruction and hatred which are sponsored by
specific countries and regimes including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, the
armed terrorist groups which are supported and funded by external sides
continued targeting the residential neighborhoods in Aleppo city with various
explosive and rocket shells and ‘hellfire cannon’ shells which consist of
weaponized gas cylinders in an arbitrary manner without any consideration for
the sanctity of Eid al-Fitr holiday in blatant violations of the truce
agreements and the cessation of hostilities.
Since the
ceasefire was declared, effective midnight last February 26, 762 known
terrorist violations occurred, more daily, notably targeting residential and
other civilian areas – advanced weapons, cluster munitions, and chemical agents
used, supplied by Western and regional states.
According to
the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA),
“the
persistence of these terrorists attacks which are carried out by what some like
to call ‘moderate opposition groups’ such as the terrorist organizations Jabhar
al-Nusra, Jaish al-Fateh, and Jaish al-Islam among other groups affiliated or
linked to ISIS and Al Qaeda, shows the depth of the hypocrisy of the states
that claim to be fighting terrorism, as well as being evidence of the lack of
seriousness of countries such as France, Britain, and the United States – the
three of them permanent Security Council members – in combating terrorism, in
addition to showing the double standards employed by these states when it comes
to the war on terrorism.”
(T)hese
cowardly terrorist act…are…protected by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, France,
Britain, and the United States…
(T)hese states
and regimes provid(e) terrorist groups with funds, weapons, munitions,
equipment, and recruits…some providing…safe havens, particularly Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, Jordan and Israel…
The Ministry
blasted key Security Council members for failing to fulfill their duties to
combat the scourge of terrorism they actively support.
They’re
responsible for half a million or more Syrian deaths, half the population
internally or externally displaced, survivors facing largely unaddressed crisis
conditions, Russia alone among major powers committed to helping them.
The fate of a
nation and its people hang in the balance.
Stephen
Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His
new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive
for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
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