BBC News – Syria footage sheds light on Iran’s involvement

BBC News – Syria footage sheds light on Iran’s involvement.

The story of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer, Ismail Haidari, first reported by a German television station, is now retold and completed by BBC. It highlights the extant of Iran’s involvement in Syria. Considering US silence on this matter, and its current rapprochement with the Mulla regime, it seems clear now that the Obama Administration is offering Syria to Iran in exchange for her cooperation on her nuclear program, or, more likely, a convincing enough show of cooperation, so that President Obama can claim another one of his make-believe victories. After all, as a make-believe president, that’s the best that he could do.

The Betrayal

Every analytic piece dealing with the Obama Administration policy on Syria has so far glossed over the administration’s baffling lack of action in the first six months of the revolution. Perhaps because any attempt at an explanation will open the door wide for all sorts of conspiracy theories. The alternative is to believe that the Administration has many morons in its upper ranks, in addition to the President himself. I lean towards believing in this alternative.

The U.S.-Russian chemical weapons deal is a win-win-win for everyone except the Syrians.

The U.S.-Russian chemical weapons deal is a win-win-win for everyone except the Syrians..

You can try to sugarcoat death and defeat, but that will not change what they are. This deal is a diplomatic and a strategic loss even to the US, because sometimes “how we got there” is far more important than what has been achieved. The how in this case informs the what and seals its fate. We are here, because Obama is apathetic, Kerry a bungler , and Putin and Assad megalomaniac butchers. No deal reached between this four can prove lasting or good. Today, the Syrians will lose, even the pro-Assad fools, but as tomorrow will soon reveal, the fate of many other peoples is at stake as well, and it won’t be pretty.

For America there is no way out

The Daily Star

Despite occasional calibrations reflecting changes in administration, the policy of the United States toward the broader Middle East and North Africa region remains highly influenced by a set of misperceptions and ideological stances more related to American domestic politics than to regional realities. This situation has constantly undermined Washington’s efforts and, occasionally, its desire to play a positive role in the region, serving to transform the US into a convenient scapegoat upon which ruling regimes heap blame for all regional woes.

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