{"id":31191,"date":"2018-02-18T20:50:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T01:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31191"},"modified":"2018-02-18T20:50:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T01:50:41","slug":"ending-americas-disastrous-role-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31191","title":{"rendered":"Ending America\u2019s Disastrous Role in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/picture>Delil Souleiman\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figure>\n

Ending America\u2019s Disastrous Role in Syria<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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America\u2019s official narrative has sought to conceal the scale and calamitous consequences of US efforts to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. That is understandable, because US efforts are in blatant violation of international law, which bars UN member states from supporting military action to overthrow other members’ governments.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NEW YORK \u2013 Much of the carnage that has ravaged Syria during the past seven years is due to the actions of the United States and its allies in the Middle East. Now, faced with an alarming risk of a renewed escalation of fighting, it\u2019s time for the United Nations Security Council to step in to end the bloodshed, based on a new framework agreed by the Council\u2019s permanent members.<\/p>\n

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Here are the basics. 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\u2019s regime, even though overthrowing another country\u2019s government amounts to a blatant violation of international law. We know that in 2012, if not earlier, President Barack Obama authorized<\/a> the CIA to work with America\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

The Assad regime is led by the minority Alawi Shia sect in a country where Alawites account for just 10% of the population, Sunni Muslims account for 75%, Christians make up 10%, and 5% are others, including Druze. The regional powers behind Assad\u2019s regime include Iran and Russia, which has a naval base on Syria\u2019s Mediterranean coastline.<\/p>\n

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Delil Souleiman\/AFP\/Getty Images Ending America\u2019s Disastrous Role in Syria America\u2019s official narrative has sought to conceal the scale and calamitous consequences of US efforts to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. That is understandable, because US efforts are in blatant violation of international law, which bars UN member states from supporting military action to overthrow other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3218,135,1049,16186,1026,701,776,818,822,9324,827],"class_list":["post-31191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-cia","tag-israel","tag-jeffrey-d-sachs","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-un","tag-un-security-council","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31192,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191\/revisions\/31192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}