Why U.S. wants regime change in Syria

[blindpig]

Why U.S. wants regime change in Syria

The U.S. government claims it supports the huge social explosion rocking the Arab world and northern Africa. A closer look shows that it is trying to take advantage of these struggles to consolidate its stranglehold there.

U.S. “support” of movements opposed to Arab governments is selective. The government of Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen killed 100 people last week. It was a massacre, but no U.S. administration official called Saleh “a monster murdering his own people.” There was no move in the United Nations for a no-fly zone. In fact, U.S. drones regularly bomb Yemen, a U.S. client regime located on strategic waterways. Instead, in his U.N. speech on Sept. 21 Obama made the mildest of comments and called for “seeking a path that allows for a peaceful transition” in Yemen.

The White House, Congress and the Pentagon are going after the few Arab governments with some independence from imperialism: Libya, and now Syria.

In Syria there is a great deal at stake for the workers and rural poor as there is throughout the Middle East. Syria is in a strategic anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist alliance with Iran, with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and with Hamas in Gaza. This alliance is crucial in holding back the predatory Zionist state from taking over the whole area. Washington would like to break up this alliance and move against them all.

more....

http://www.workers.org/2011/world/syria_1020/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. What makes Washington think that overthrowing the current regime in Syria

will allow a less adversarial replacement with less hostility toward Israel and The West? And the new government could have stronger ties with Tehran as well.

[malaise]

2. So they're unrecing you thread

Rec

[blindpig]

3. imagine that.....

and ya know I never use that feature.

A fine display of support for imperialism around here.

[PETRUS]

4. The scales are falling from more and more American eyes.

Although plenty still cling to the official narrative.

[pampango]

5. We should do more to support Yemenis in getting rid of Saleh. We should not do less

to help Syrians get rid of Assad. Neither of them preside over what any of us would consider a liberal government.

Powerful dictators may serve a useful function for the rest of us by being anti-Israel or anti-Al Queda or in support of whatever our geopolitical beliefs are, but to the people they rule dictators and the security forces that insure their survival are inherently unpopular. The fewer dictators there are in the world, the better.

BTW, I think most of the world wants "regime change" in Syria. Even Russia and China which have protected Assad from UN resolutions so far have publicly warned him that a continuation of the violence towards Syria's civilian protesters is not acceptable.

[KG]

6. apparently, they don't want it as bad as they wanted it in libya.

not nearly so much oil underneath it.

[TBF]

7. There are always reasons for what Imperialists do - and if you follow the most desirable

natural resources the reasons become crystal clear (and it ain't "freedom" - unless it's the freedom to steal, oppress labor, etc)