The war propaganda is falling apart

Aaron Jones April 13, 2018 No Comments

The war propaganda may be running 90% of the time and on all the major networks… Even so, the truth is getting out. It’s even happening on MSNBC, of all places! Watch as Professor Jeffrey Sachs cuts through the partisan bullshit and says, “GET OUT,” among other things.

You can read more about the not-so-covert CIA program, “Timber Sycamore,” here.

Imagine my surprise when I looked up that term in the Washington Post’s archives…

…In 2011, in the context of the Arab Spring, the US government, in conjunction with the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and Israel, decided to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, even though overthrowing another country’s government amounts to a blatant violation of international law. We know that in 2012, if not earlier, President Barack Obama authorizedthe CIA to work with America’s allies in providing support to rebel forces composed of disaffected Syrians as well as non-Syrian fighters. US policymakers evidently expected Assad to fall quickly, as had occurred with the governments of Tunisia and Egypt in the early months of the Arab Spring….

There were four main reasons for the failure to overthrow Assad. First, Assad’s regime had backing among not only Alawites, but also Syrian Christians and other minorities who feared a repressive Sunni Islamist regime. Second, the US-led coalition was countered by Iran and Russia. Third, when a splinter group of jihadists split away to form the Islamic State (ISIS), the US diverted significant resources to defeating it, rather than to toppling Assad. Finally, the anti-Assad forces have been deeply and chronically divided; for example, Turkey is in open conflict with the Kurdish fighters backed by the US. – from Project Syndicate by Prof. Sachs

 

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