On October 5 journalist C. J. Chivers published a long article in the New York Times, sympathetically recording the views of the US-backed Syrian opposition, titled “Rebels Say West’s Inaction Is Pushing Syrians to Extremism.”The article comes amid rising tensions between Washington and the proxies that it is arming and backing in the war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. After Libyan Islamists previously backed by the US in last year’s war against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi attacked the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11, a debate has broken out in the American state over how aggressively to back similar forces in Syria.Chivers, an ex-Marine whose reporting relies on his high-level US military and intelligence connections, speaks for the factions in Washington who want to intensify the war, topple Assad, and put the opposition in power. His argument itself reveals the right-wing character of the forces the US is supporting, however. The unmistakable content of his argument is that Washington should attack Syria and put the Islamist-dominated opposition in power, because otherwise they will use their training to mount terrorist attacks on the US.He paraphrases comments by rebel commander Majed al-Muhammad: “The Syrian people are being radicalized by a combination of a grinding conflict and their belief that they have been abandoned by a watching world. If the West continues to turn its back on Syria’s suffering, he said, Syrians will turn their backs in return, and this may imperil Western interests and security at one of the crossroads of the Middle East.”To speak plainly, Syrian opposition groups angry with Washington could decide to “imperil Western security” by launching attacks against US targets.Later on, Chivers adopts this argument as his own. He notes “rising frustration” in the Syrian opposition with alleged lack of US support, adding: “As anger grows, armed groups opposed to the United States may grow in numbers and stature, too.”Chivers is well aware that the Syrian opposition is receiving aid and training from the US and its allies in order to carry out terrorist attacks. Indeed, one of his recent video reports for the Times covered bombings against Syrian government targets carried out by the Islamist group Lions of Tawhid (i.e., Lions of Monotheism). Chivers and the Times filmed them for five days in August as they organized and carried out various operations.Such comments underscore the fact that political forces that promoted the Syrian opposition as “revolutionary,” including the International Socialist Organization in the United States or the New Anticapitalist Party in France, were themselves acting as tools of imperialism. They were trying to promote the Syrian contras by painting them in “left” colors.Though its author certainly did not intend it, Chivers’ article also makes clear the political fraud perpetrated upon the American people by successive administrations that launched their wars in the Middle East based on claims they were fighting a “war on terror.” In fact, now as during the 1980s, US imperialism is willing to back the most reactionary forces, including terrorists, when it serves its geopolitical interests.
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