georgephillip
Senator
Have Turkey and Saudi Arabia decided to finish off Iran's influence in Syria, and, if so, how does that affect US/Israeli plans for a New Middle East?
TRNN producer Paul Jay asks the historian Gareth Porter for his interpretation of the recent ascent of a new military command that is dominated by al-Qaeda in Syria:
"JAY: I mean, the underlying issue here is U.S. policy is so entwined with allying with the most reactionary, fascistic forces imaginable, from Saudi Arabia to the Israelis, and so on, that the underpinnings of the policy almost dictate that they're going to get themselves into this kind of situation. But of course it's not the U.S. that's going to really pay the price. It's going to be the Syrian people.
"PORTER: Absolutely. And I would say that there are really two major kinds of forces that are sort of sucking the Obama administration into precisely this situation. And one of them is what you have alluded to already, which is that the Israelis and the other, the Sunni allies of the United States in the Middle East on whom we rely for military bases, the access to military bases in that region, as well as in the case of the Saudis for a huge bonanza of arms trade, arms sales, which add up to hundreds of million--excuse me, hundreds of billions of dollars over the next couple of decades. This is a very powerful set of interests that incline the U.S. national security state to go along with this.
"But on the second interest, I think, the second situation that does impel the Obama administration that direction, is that Obama definitely does not want the United States military to go to war in, against Isis or al-Nusra on the ground. And he's inclined to say to the Sunni states, well, if you want to fight it out with these people in Syria then go ahead. So he's kind of washing his hands of the outcome in Syria in that regard, it appears to me."
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TRNN producer Paul Jay asks the historian Gareth Porter for his interpretation of the recent ascent of a new military command that is dominated by al-Qaeda in Syria:
"JAY: I mean, the underlying issue here is U.S. policy is so entwined with allying with the most reactionary, fascistic forces imaginable, from Saudi Arabia to the Israelis, and so on, that the underpinnings of the policy almost dictate that they're going to get themselves into this kind of situation. But of course it's not the U.S. that's going to really pay the price. It's going to be the Syrian people.
"PORTER: Absolutely. And I would say that there are really two major kinds of forces that are sort of sucking the Obama administration into precisely this situation. And one of them is what you have alluded to already, which is that the Israelis and the other, the Sunni allies of the United States in the Middle East on whom we rely for military bases, the access to military bases in that region, as well as in the case of the Saudis for a huge bonanza of arms trade, arms sales, which add up to hundreds of million--excuse me, hundreds of billions of dollars over the next couple of decades. This is a very powerful set of interests that incline the U.S. national security state to go along with this.
"But on the second interest, I think, the second situation that does impel the Obama administration that direction, is that Obama definitely does not want the United States military to go to war in, against Isis or al-Nusra on the ground. And he's inclined to say to the Sunni states, well, if you want to fight it out with these people in Syria then go ahead. So he's kind of washing his hands of the outcome in Syria in that regard, it appears to me."
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14044