Ultimately the American people and the American government and the corporations that trade with the Middle East would be better served by a stable and prosperous Middle East and you don't get that by hunting terrorism and giving arms to rebels and destabilizing these countries."
Imperial armed terror and aggression by the West using al-Qaeda and its Arab allies against Syria has met a solid brick wall in the form of Russia and China.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Dr. Kevin Barrett, author and Islamic studies expert, Madison about whose interests are really being served in acts of war against the sovereign nation of Syria. The following is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: It seems that in the case of policies imposed on Syria, we have the US trying to change the political map and the balance of power in the region.
How can Washington's efforts to impose regime change in Syria serve its interests there in the region?
Barrett: Well that's a good question. I'm not sure that they do. I think it's actually Likud interests that are being served? Not even Israeli interests, but the extremist's right wing Likud interests are being served by destabilizing the region.
Ultimately the American people and the American government and the corporations that trade with the Middle East would be better served by a stable and prosperous Middle East and you don't get that by hunting terrorism and giving arms to rebels and destabilizing these countries.
I'm not a big supporter of the current government in Syria. I do think that reform would be called for. But that's not what is happening, this is not a peaceful popular uprising, this is an orchestrated attempt to destabilize a country by the US and its Israeli partner although partner isn't really the word, I think master and slave is more the relationship these days.
Press TV: We have Washington seemingly being active in orchestrating media reports against Syria's Bashar Assad, but on the other hand we have the US ignoring the acts of terror by the foreign-backed opposition. All in all where do you think the situation in Syria is heading taking into consideration the role of Syria's neighbors?
Barrett: It's a case of the proverbial unstoppable force against the immovable object.
Press TV: It seems that in the case of policies imposed on Syria, we have the US trying to change the political map and the balance of power in the region.
How can Washington's efforts to impose regime change in Syria serve its interests there in the region?
Barrett: Well that's a good question. I'm not sure that they do. I think it's actually Likud interests that are being served? Not even Israeli interests, but the extremist's right wing Likud interests are being served by destabilizing the region.
Ultimately the American people and the American government and the corporations that trade with the Middle East would be better served by a stable and prosperous Middle East and you don't get that by hunting terrorism and giving arms to rebels and destabilizing these countries.
I'm not a big supporter of the current government in Syria. I do think that reform would be called for. But that's not what is happening, this is not a peaceful popular uprising, this is an orchestrated attempt to destabilize a country by the US and its Israeli partner although partner isn't really the word, I think master and slave is more the relationship these days.
Press TV: We have Washington seemingly being active in orchestrating media reports against Syria's Bashar Assad, but on the other hand we have the US ignoring the acts of terror by the foreign-backed opposition. All in all where do you think the situation in Syria is heading taking into consideration the role of Syria's neighbors?
Barrett: It's a case of the proverbial unstoppable force against the immovable object.
In this case we have the US and its allies all rallied to the cause of extremist Likud Zionism trying to destabilize the entire region. I think the Likud-niks want to plunge the Middle East into a big war, which would allow them to finish the ethnic cleaning in Palestine and to escape prosecution for 9/11 and the wars it triggered.
But I do think that the Russians and to a lesser extent the Chinese do represent a very large percentage of the people and the productivity of the Euro-Asian continent and are not going to cave into threats by the likes of Hilary Clinton.
It is not Hilary Clinton who has the power to say that Russia and China have to pay a price for pursuing normal diplomatic approaches to political problems. I think it's a really good example of this kind of arrogant attitude that we're seeing from the US and from the Israelis.
Press TV: We also have Washington somehow pushing for a no-fly zone in Syria like it did in Libya. Just how much do you think the situation is like that in Libya?
Barrett: I think it's a very different situation, but the similarity is that in both cases the Americans and their so-called allies have chosen to destabilize a government. And the no-fly zone in Libya, just like other no-fly zones, is really an act of war.
It's an Orwellian way of disguising a military attack on a country as if it were somehow a peacekeeping measure. But what a no-fly zone really means is that it gives these outside powers the right to bomb and not just to shoot down aircraft, but they'll come in there and actually bomb targets in the country. We saw in Libya they caused immense civilian casualties, bombing that country.
And I'm sure that the Russians are not going to be happy with allowing people to come bomb Syria because the Russians have military bases in Syria and there is just no way that they're going to allow that.
But it's really becoming a crisis and I hope that sane people will prevail if there are any sane people left in Washington.
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Barrett: I think it's a very different situation, but the similarity is that in both cases the Americans and their so-called allies have chosen to destabilize a government. And the no-fly zone in Libya, just like other no-fly zones, is really an act of war.
It's an Orwellian way of disguising a military attack on a country as if it were somehow a peacekeeping measure. But what a no-fly zone really means is that it gives these outside powers the right to bomb and not just to shoot down aircraft, but they'll come in there and actually bomb targets in the country. We saw in Libya they caused immense civilian casualties, bombing that country.
And I'm sure that the Russians are not going to be happy with allowing people to come bomb Syria because the Russians have military bases in Syria and there is just no way that they're going to allow that.
But it's really becoming a crisis and I hope that sane people will prevail if there are any sane people left in Washington.
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