{"id":188943,"date":"2015-10-06T01:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T01:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=188943"},"modified":"2015-10-06T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T08:06:40","slug":"how-syrians-view-russia-v-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/how-syrians-view-russia-v-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"How Syrians View Russia v. U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=159&amp;v=8rNc82fgvz4\">British TV Interviews Syrians About Russia\u2019s Airstrikes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/polls-show-syrians-overwhelmingly-blame-u-s-for-isis\/\">Polls Show Syrians\u00a0Overwhelmingly Blame U.S.\u00a0for ISIS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>CONCLUSION<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">U.S. President Obama\u2019s chief aim in Syria is not to defeat the fundamentalist ISIS and Al Qaeda there, but to replace that country\u2019s secular leader Bashar al-Assad, who is, on the basis of the above-cited evidence, far more popular in Syria than Obama is. Yet Obama says that militarily overthrowing Assad would be the \u2018democratic\u2019 thing to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Obama \u2018introduced democracy\u2019 into Libya by militarily overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi and sparking civil war there; and he \u2018introduced democracy\u2019 into Ukraine by a violent U.S.-planned coup getting rid of Viktor Yanukovych and sparking civil war there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Before Obama, George W. Bush had brought \u2018democracy\u2019 to Iraq by overthrowing Saddam Hussein and sparking civil war there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Is the \u2018democracy\u2019 in the United States itself still authentic, or is it instead now fake, such as America\u2019s former President Jimmy Carter recently said \u2013 that the U.S. is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eric-zuesse\/jimmy-carter-is-correct-t_b_7922788.html\"><span class=\"s3\">no longer a democracy<\/span><\/a>? If the U.S. is no longer a democracy, and yet accuses other governments of being dictatorships that the U.S. has a right to overthrow, then would that hypocrisy indicate a disrespect for the public\u2019s intelligence? How much should a person trust Mr. Obama\u2019s honesty?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s4\">Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theyre-Not-Even-Close-Democratic\/dp\/1880026090\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1339027537&amp;sr=8-9\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>,<\/i> and of <i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007Q1H4EG\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Zuesse British TV Interviews Syrians About Russia\u2019s Airstrikes Polls Show Syrians\u00a0Overwhelmingly Blame U.S.\u00a0for ISIS CONCLUSION U.S. President Obama\u2019s chief aim in Syria is not to defeat the fundamentalist ISIS and Al Qaeda there, but to replace that country\u2019s secular leader Bashar al-Assad, who is, on the basis of the above-cited evidence, far more popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":188944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,461],"tags":[115,535,804,543,7667,754,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-188943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-editorials","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-global-news","11":"tag-politics-2","12":"tag-putin","13":"tag-russis","14":"tag-syria","15":"tag-usa-news","16":"tag-warfare","17":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}