Robert Fisk: Syrian War of Lies and Hypocrisy

Local Editor In an article entitled "Syrian War of Lies and Hypocrisy", Robert Fisk noted that the war on Syria is a war of Western cowardice, mean morality, false rhetoric and public humiliation, and that the real aim behind such a war is Iran. "I'm referring to the utter lies and mendacity of our masters and our own public opinion - eastern as well as western - in response to the slaughter, a vicious pantomime more worthy of Swiftian satire than Tolstoy or Shakespeare," Fisk wrote. Highlighting US hypocrisy, he adds that at the time Qatar and Saudi Arabia arm and fund the rebels of Syria to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, Washington mutters not a word of criticism against them. "President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, say they want a democracy in Syria, but Qatar is an autocracy and Saudi Arabia is among the most pernicious of caliphate-kingly-dictatorships in the Arab world," Fisk wrote, also noting that "Saudi Arabia is an ally of the Salafist-Wahabi rebels in Syria, just as it was the most fervent supporter of the medieval Taliban during Afghanistan's dark ages." Furthermore on Saudi autocracy, he noted "Indeed, 15 of the 19 hijacker-mass murderers of 11 September, 2001, came from Saudi Arabia - after which, of course, we bombed Afghanistan. The Saudis are repressing their own Shia minority just as they now wish to destroy the Alawite-Shia minority of Syria. And we believe Saudi Arabia wants to set up a democracy in Syria?" From the United States, according to Fisk, "Clinton issues a "stern warning" to Assad. Panetta - the same man who repeated to the last US forces in Iraq that old lie about Saddam's connection to 9/11 - announces that things are." As for Western political leaders, Fisk wrote "they are happy to condemn Arabs for their savagery but too timid to utter a word of the mildest criticism when the "Israeli" army commits crimes against humanity - or watches its allies do it in Lebanon - ordinary people have to remind the world that they are not as timid as the politicians." Highlighting the ultimate truth about the big lie, he explains that the main goal behind such a war is Iran and the Western desire to crush the Islamic Republic and its so-called nuclear plans, if these exist. Source: Independent, edited by moqawama.org

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