Foreign Intervention in Syria: No Room for Equivocation http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/foreign-intervention-syria-no-room-equivocation  A friend from Damascus sent the following letter:

I met with some ‘opposition’ figures whose patriotism is above suspicion. Some had been summoned for ‘questioning,’ which turned out to be one of the regime’s ways of holding a dialogue with them. I asked for their latest assessment of the situation. They complained at length, and blamed the regime for starting it all.I replied, “The issue isn’t who started it. Blame me for it, or say it began with the kingdom of Mari or even Ebla. But there is a problem, and a solution is needed.”One of them said, “It’s the regime that’s chasing around for a solution, not us.”I said, “Is seeking a solution an indictment, and refusing to discuss a solution with the regime the height of patriotism and wisdom? Are we supposed to treat the regime’s search for a solution as yet another blot on its record?”No reply.I said, “Do you see dialogue with the regime as treason?”No reply.I said, “So it would seem you want the regime to just simply hand the country over to you. That might be reasonable if your forces were at the gates of the presidential palace. But you’re nowhere near there. The state is disintegrating, people. That means disaster for everyone. It would probably lead to the re-partition of the entire region.”They said, “Not true. We don’t believe in conspiracies! European non-governmental groups and world figures warned us that Syria and the region are heading for partition, but we informed them that this is out of the question.”I said, “If Assad announced that he was prepared to do a deal with Israel, how do you think the Americans would react?”They said, "America supports the regime and the president.”I said, "In what way? By imposing economic sanctions, demanding his resignation, and putting forward resolutions calling for intervention at the UN Security Council? Enlighten me; explain, so I can be converted.”They said, "The regime doesn’t do anything about the Golan.”I said, "Fine. But have you raised the question of the Golan or Palestine in any of your own statements? Are you calling for the liberation of the Golan. Are you calling for resistance to Israel? And what do you make of the way Russia solves its Chechen problem, China solves its problems with its Muslim minority, India solves the Kashmir problem, and your friend Turkey solves its problem with the Arabs, Kurds, and Alawites there?”Silence.I said, "How would you react if the US decides to launch air strikes on Syrian military positions without Security Council authorization in order to create anarchy in the country, as it did in Yugoslavia?”They said, "No way. America wants the regime and Assad to survive.I said, "What makes you believe that? Do they give him economic and military aid? Does America protect him from condemnation and intervention at the UN Security Council?”Silence.I said, "Okay, let’s go back to the basic problem. Would you consider holding a dialogue and reaching a solution with the regime without the involvement of the US, Turkey, and the Gulf states?”They said, "It is the regime that is looking for a solution, not us.”

I said, “Poor Syria.”   Syria today is approaching a new crossroads. Since US President Barack Obama announced that US forces would be withdrawn from Iraq before Christmas, it has become clear that seismic changes are on the region’s doorstep. The coming weeks could witness some major unwelcome developments. These fears are not based on a general reading of the situation, but on concrete evidence reaching several regional capitals about the course that the US, Europe, and their Arab clients have decided to take on Syria.These countries are acting, of course, in collaboration with various parts of the Syrian opposition. Most prominent of these is the group that is now part and parcel of Western plans and has a controlling majority in the Syrian National Council (SNC). It has become daily more apparent that dissident figures like Burhan Ghalioun, who nominally hold SNC leadership positions, are being reduced to a mere facade. They may do the speaking, but the decisions are made elsewhere. It has, therefore, ceased to matter whether or not Rifaat Assad or Abdel Halim Khaddam join the SNC. Either way, it is their ideas and slogans that will be turned into a plan of action based on the concept of replicating the Libyan experience in Syria — without, of course, considering the dangers or the consequences.Some, of course, have been quick to argue that the West is not interested in attacking Syria because it does not have Libya’s oil or money. This is an attempt to pull wool over our eyes by pretending that Arab oil states are not themselves deeply involved in this scheme. They have not only offered to fund such a war, but also to fund reconstruction in its aftermath. In any case, Iraq disproved the theory that the West is only interested in oil wealth. The war cost the US far more than it could recover from Iraq’s oil wealth, though its plans for the country were foiled by the Iraqi resistance. In terms of regional politics, and in other respects, Syria is a strategic prize that makes it infinitely more valuable than the riches that some oil kingdoms and emirates may possess.

[CLICK LINK ABOVE FOR REST OF ARTICLE...NOW TO DEBUNK SOME LIES BY OPPONENT OF ASSAD... AMERICANS WANT ASSAD TO SATY IN POWER?WRONG...  If Arab Spring threatens Israel, why does Brookings/Saban Center(Zionist) support it? http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/05/if-arab-spring-threatens-israel-why.html SYRIA OPPOSITION WATCH(ZIONISTPUPPETS)  http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/10/syria-opposition-watch-radwan-ziadeh.html ''ZIONIST'' US AMBASSADOR TO SYRIA ''UPDATES'' AND ADRESSES ZIONIST NEOCON WINEP INSTITUTE http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/10/us-ambassador-to-syria-adresses-zionist.html AIPAC DARLING AND ZIONAZI JEWISH US AMBASSADOR SENDS …SOS From Syria By: [JEWISH] Amb. Marc Ginsberg* (RABID ZIONIST) http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/11/aipac-darling-and-zionazi-jewish-us.html   WHO'S WHO IN NEW SYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL? MORE OF THE SAME PRO WESTERN ,IMPERIAL PUPPETS http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/09/whos-who-in-new-syrian-national-council.html  [ASSAD DOENST DO ANYTHING ABOUT GOLAN? WRONG...General Assembly GA/EF/3319 http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/A83E4FF159C7F15F852579360054C689  Syria’s representative said the report shed light on some but not all the economic and social sufferings shared by the Palestinian and Syrian peoples. The figures reflected Israel’s barbarism and its violations of international law, he said, recalling that the occupying Power had imposed its rules and laws on the Golan Heights since the beginning of its occupation in 1967. The Israeli annexation of the Golan had led to the exploitation and wastage of natural resources, he said, adding that Israel continued its confiscation of land, imposition of high taxes, uprooting of trees and destruction of the natural environment by dumping nuclear waste.