{"id":146688,"date":"2015-04-19T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=31c59f7d9a3f0ce48f0c7d89a5972335"},"modified":"2015-04-19T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T16:52:00","slug":"neocon-think-tank-proposes-us-proxy-army-to-control-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/neocon-think-tank-proposes-us-proxy-army-to-control-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Neocon Think Tank Proposes US Proxy Army to Control Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\"><b>Neocon Think Tank Proposes US Proxy Army to Control Syria<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">The Atlantic Council is a hawkish right-wing think tank. Its directors include a rogue&#8217;s gallery of high-level US war criminals.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It&#8217;s notion of &#8220;working together to secure the future&#8221; is waging endless preemptive wars of aggression.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">Its Distinguished International Leadership Awards go to former US and other Western government and military officials for raping and plundering one country after another.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It was founded in 1961 to support NATO&#8217;s killing machine. It&#8217;s one of many similar groups in America threatening world peace and stability.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">Its solution for ending Obama&#8217;s war on Syria is escalated war. It proposes what it calls a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/events\/past-events\/setting-the-stage-for-peace-in-syria-the-case-for-a-syrian-national-stabilization-force\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">Syrian National Stabilization Force (SNSF)<\/span><\/a> &#8211; code language for US-controlled conquering and occupying army.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It believes the way for sustainable peace in Syria is through overwhelming military might &#8211; featuring &#8220;a robust, (US proxy) three-division stabilization force of 50,000 Syrians&#8221; established to do Washington&#8217;s killing and dying.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It wants a Syrian Advisory Task Force (SATF) composed of pro-Western nationals willing to serve US interests.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It says &#8220;there is no political solution to the Syrian conflict unless there is a military component&#8221; waging no-holds-barred war.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">Its Syrian solution applies to all US direct and proxy war theaters.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">Washington and Western allies must lead the way, it urges &#8211; so America can gain another subservient client state while eliminating an Israeli rival at the same time.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It advocates US-led &#8220;cooperation, engagement, and a clear coherent discourse between Western, regional, and Syrian military and political actors &#8211; and the message of commitment projected by putting the train-and-equip program on steroids &#8211; can create new dynamics on the ground, build popular appeal to the SNSF&#8217;s mission and goal, and set the stage for peace in Syria&#8221; by continuing to rape the country en route to plundering it and exploiting its people.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It wants President Bashar al-Assad overthrown. It wants Syrians having no say over who&#8217;ll lead them.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It wants Washington alone deciding. It wants US-controlled stooge governance replacing Syrian sovereign independence.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">Neocons think one way. They want unlimited wealth, power and privilege. They want unchallenged global dominance.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">They want control over world resources and markets. They want populations exploited for profit.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">They deplore peace. The support endless wars. They believe millions of corpses are a small price to pay for remaking the world in their own image.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">They and likeminded lunatics in Washington risk the unthinkable &#8211; possible life-ending nuclear war.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">A Final Comment<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/19\/world\/middleeast\/sale-of-us-arms-fuels-the-wars-of-arab-states.html?_r=0\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">New York Times<\/span><\/a> says US arms sales fuel Middle East wars. Saudis and other regional belligerents use American weapons and munitions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">They &#8220;stockpiled American military hardware\u2026&#8221; They&#8217;re now using it and want more.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">In 2014, Saudi Arabia spent over $80 billion for weapons and munitions. It&#8217;s the world&#8217;s fourth largest defense market.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">Other regional countries are spending billions of dollars for all sorts of advanced weapons.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">The Middle East is awash with implements of death. The Times omits what&#8217;s most important to explain.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It says nothing about US\/Israeli responsibility for all regional conflicts &#8211; using local allies to wage proxy wars along with takfiri-recruited death squads.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">The road to Middle East peace and stability is eliminating America&#8217;s presence. It&#8217;s holding Israel accountable for endless high crimes against Palestinians.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It&#8217;s valuing human life more than destroying it. It&#8217;s waging peace, not war. Don&#8217;t expect The Times to explain.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">His new book as editor and contributor is titled &#8220;Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;\">It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><b>Neocon Think Tank Proposes US Proxy Army to Control Syria<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Atlantic Council is a hawkish right-wing think tank. Its directors include a rogue&#8217;s gallery of high-level US war criminals.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s notion of &#8220;working together to secure the future&#8221; is waging endless preemptive wars of aggression.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Its Distinguished International Leadership Awards go to former US and other Western government and military officials for raping and plundering one country after another.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was founded in 1961 to support NATO&#8217;s killing machine. It&#8217;s one of many similar groups in America threatening world peace and stability.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Its solution for ending Obama&#8217;s war on Syria is escalated war. It proposes what it calls a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/events\/past-events\/setting-the-stage-for-peace-in-syria-the-case-for-a-syrian-national-stabilization-force\"><span>Syrian National Stabilization Force (SNSF)<\/span><\/a> &#8211; code language for US-controlled conquering and occupying army.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It believes the way for sustainable peace in Syria is through overwhelming military might &#8211; featuring &#8220;a robust, (US proxy) three-division stabilization force of 50,000 Syrians&#8221; established to do Washington&#8217;s killing and dying.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It wants a Syrian Advisory Task Force (SATF) composed of pro-Western nationals willing to serve US interests.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It says &#8220;there is no political solution to the Syrian conflict unless there is a military component&#8221; waging no-holds-barred war.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Its Syrian solution applies to all US direct and proxy war theaters.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Washington and Western allies must lead the way, it urges &#8211; so America can gain another subservient client state while eliminating an Israeli rival at the same time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It advocates US-led &#8220;cooperation, engagement, and a clear coherent discourse between Western, regional, and Syrian military and political actors &#8211; and the message of commitment projected by putting the train-and-equip program on steroids &#8211; can create new dynamics on the ground, build popular appeal to the SNSF&#8217;s mission and goal, and set the stage for peace in Syria&#8221; by continuing to rape the country en route to plundering it and exploiting its people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It wants President Bashar al-Assad overthrown. It wants Syrians having no say over who&#8217;ll lead them.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It wants Washington alone deciding. It wants US-controlled stooge governance replacing Syrian sovereign independence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Neocons think one way. They want unlimited wealth, power and privilege. They want unchallenged global dominance.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They want control over world resources and markets. They want populations exploited for profit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They deplore peace. The support endless wars. They believe millions of corpses are a small price to pay for remaking the world in their own image.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They and likeminded lunatics in Washington risk the unthinkable &#8211; possible life-ending nuclear war.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A Final Comment<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/19\/world\/middleeast\/sale-of-us-arms-fuels-the-wars-of-arab-states.html?_r=0\"><span>New York Times<\/span><\/a> says US arms sales fuel Middle East wars. Saudis and other regional belligerents use American weapons and munitions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They &#8220;stockpiled American military hardware&hellip;&#8221; They&#8217;re now using it and want more.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 2014, Saudi Arabia spent over $80 billion for weapons and munitions. It&#8217;s the world&#8217;s fourth largest defense market.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Other regional countries are spending billions of dollars for all sorts of advanced weapons.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Middle East is awash with implements of death. The Times omits what&#8217;s most important to explain.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It says nothing about US\/Israeli responsibility for all regional conflicts &#8211; using local allies to wage proxy wars along with takfiri-recruited death squads.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The road to Middle East peace and stability is eliminating America&#8217;s presence. It&#8217;s holding Israel accountable for endless high crimes against Palestinians.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s valuing human life more than destroying it. It&#8217;s waging peace, not war. Don&#8217;t expect The Times to explain.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His new book as editor and contributor is titled &#8220;Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}