Friday, December 2, 2016

Dennis Ross advises Suicide for America

Dennis Ross, who spent a lifetime pretending to work for the government of the United States but actually worked for the government of Israel and the Jewish establishment, is at it again. He is pretending.

This time, however, his injurious quackery will not involve the helpless Palestinians whose injuries had limited effect on America; it will involve the Russians, the Iranians and the Syrians whose injuries will have ramifications America will wish it never provoked.

Ross teamed up with someone named Andrew J. Tabler with whom he coauthored an article under the title: “A Syria Policy for Trump,” and the subtitle: “How Washington Can get to a Settlement.” It was published on December 1, 2016 on the website of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. While the goal remains dragging America deeper into the Middle East quagmire, the two authors have adopted an indirect approach to advising America on how it should handle the Syrian situation. It is a devious plan that looks benign on the surface but aims to achieve a hellish goal.

Whereas the Jews used to argue that Assad must go and Syria must be partitioned, our two authors have now adopted the old Jewish trick of sugarcoating the poison pill before offering it to the gullible North Americans who swallowed it each time. The old trick used to go something like this: If you – governments of Quebec or Canada or the US – will give us millions of dollars and do the other things we propose, we'll start a program that will promote understanding between the faiths. We'll get to know more about everyone, and everyone will get to know more about us. And if President Obama would visit Israel, a peace treaty with the Palestinians will result.

Replicating that pattern of con artistry, Ross and Tabler are now advancing the following argument:

“US policy has remained committed to the unity of Syria under UN Security Council resolution 2254, which reaffirmed the 'sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic' … The United States will need to uproot extremists and provide humanitarian protection to the country's component parts, with an eye toward putting them back together again”.

That is, instead of demanding that Syria be partitioned – the way they used to – they now say America must deal with Syria as if it has been partitioned into several components already. America must then take whatever forceful action will be necessary to uproot the extremists within it. Only after this is done, should America worry about putting Syria's component parts together again.

And that's only the sugar coating. The poison pill hidden inside follows in this form: “To achieve that, there are five major options that the Trump administration could apply to Syria: no-fly zones; anti-regime airstrikes, arming of the opposition; sanctions; and diplomacy … recognizing that doing so may require a willingness to tolerate the risks associated with using force”.

Anyway you look at it; this means America must get involved militarily in Syria up to its eyeballs. Their aim is to bring about the partition of the country while pretending that someone else has already done it. As to the matter of Assad leaving Syria, this can be accomplished by America aiding his opposition both directly and indirectly, say Ross and Tabler. And this is what they recommend: Give the opposition more and better weapons and engage the Syrian military with cruise missiles and such. Here is how they put it in their own words:

“The United States could help even out the balance of power by punishing the regime with cruise missiles, or airstrikes on regime airfields. This risks inadvertently killing Russian soldiers, but the concentration of Russian forces in a few geographical areas ensures that there are multiple targets within the country that could be safely attacked by the United States from outside Syrian air space … The United States could [also] provide qualitatively new weapons in larger amounts to the Syrian opposition”.

Twice before did the two military superpowers confront each other in a hot war – one directly and the other by proxy. In Vietnam, America was involved directly while the Soviet Union used the Vietnamese as proxy. In Afghanistan, the Soviet Union was involved directly while America used the Afghans as proxy.

In both cases the superpower that got involved directly realized it was committing a suicidal act. And this is what Dennis Ross is telling America to do now because it is what serves the interests of Israel best.