Creating a parallel govt by funding thru institutions like NED, USAID, White Helmets & various NGOs and financing, indoctrinating jihadist ideologies, arming, training hardcore Wahhabi-leaning muslims & opposition entities, overt & covert military operations, and of course, disseminating propaganda thru' MSM...
America in Syria: How to Build a Terror-State
Global Research, September 28, 2016
New Eastern Outlook 28 September 2016
A nation is its institutions, and should those institutions
weaken, the nation itself will be weakened. And should those
institutions be destroyed, the nation, for all intents and purposes,
will also be destroyed.
A dramatic example of how
to destroy a nation unfolded in 2003 in Iraq as a US led axis invaded
and occupied it, intentionally targeting and destroying Iraqi
institutions and essential infrastructure, including the police,
military, and the government as well as bridges, electricity, and
communications.
In the ruins left in the wake of the US-led invasion, through the
“Coalition Provisional Authority,” US and European corporations were
invited in to not only rebuild these institutions and infrastructure,
but to do so in a manner making them dependent on and profitable to
US-European corporate-financier interests well into the foreseeable
future.
The West’s vast influence
in Iraq today is owed to this process. While it is likely the West
envisioned a client state far more obedient and subservient to Western
interests than Iraq is today, the complicity it does receive across Iraq
and even across the wider region, is vastly greater than before the
2003 invasion.
The US State Department through the National Endowment for
Democracy (NED) and the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) continue to undermine local, independent
institutions and infrastructure in favor of US-funded and directed
institutions as well as US-controlled infrastructure. It is the
mechanics of modern day empire.
While Iraq is an extreme example of just how far and overt this
process can be, the United States is repeating this same process the
world over through direct and indirect military operations or more
subtly through the use of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
America’s Burgeoning Terror-State in the Levant
In Syria, the United
States has engineered and perpetuated a proxy war against the government
in Damascus and its Russian and Iranian allies beginning in 2011.
Before even the armed conflict began in 2011, the United States
admittedly poured resources into opposition groups including the Muslim
Brotherhood to prepare the ground for violent subversion.In 2007,
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh would write in his
9-page report, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” that:
To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
Hersh’s now prophetic report would also reveal US support for the Muslim Brotherhood:
There is evidence that the Administration’s redirection strategy has already benefitted the Brotherhood. The Syrian National Salvation Front is a coalition of opposition groups whose principal members are a faction led by Abdul Halim Khaddam, a former Syrian Vice-President who defected in 2005, and the Brotherhood. A former high-ranking C.I.A. officer told me, “The Americans have provided both political and financial support. The Saudis are taking the lead with financial support, but there is American involvement.”
The US, through backing a large, alternative political front, was
already well on its way in 2007 toward creating a parallel state within
Syria to eventually undermine and overthrow before eventually absorbing
the Syrian nation.
As hostilities began, the US augmented its proxy political party with
both opposition media fronts and armed militant groups – essentially
the creation of mass media and an army for its growing parallel terror
state.
The New York Times in 2013 would admit in an article titled, “Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A.,” that:
With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts of rebel commanders.
As the war has continued on, the United States and its Arab and
European allies have steadily built other institutions to augment the
political, military, and media capabilities of this burgeoning
terror-state, including hospitals operated in Al Qaeda-held territory by
Western NGOs, and of course the so-called “White Helmets,” described on
their own website as:
The volunteers save people on all sides of the conflict – pledging commitment to the principles of “Humanity, Solidarity, Impartiality” as outlined by the International Civil Defence Organisation. This pledge guides every response, every action, every life saved – so that in a time of destruction, all Syrians have the hope of a lifeline.
In reality, the “White Helmets” operate solely in
terrorist-held territory, as the nation of Syria already has an
effective, professional, and well organized civil defense organization.
The “White Helmets” appear to be “targeted intentionally”
because they are operating side-by-side designated terrorist
organizations including Al Nusra, quite literally Al Qaeda in Syria.
In one graphic instance (GRAPHIC VIDEO),
these “White Helmet” Al Qaeda auxiliaries can be seen literally
standing by as Al Nusra terrorists execute a prisoner, before rushing in
to remove the body. Had Syrian or Russian warplanes struck these
terrorists in the midst of carrying out war crimes, these “White
Helmets” would have rightfully been liquidated side-by-side the
terrorists they were aiding and abetting.
Despite the “White Helmets” severing quite literally as Al Qaeda
auxiliaries, the US through USAID and more recently, the German
government, have provided the faux-NGO millions in funding.
US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner in April 2016, according to a US State Department official transcript, would admit:
Well, I can tell you that we provide, through USAID, about $23 million in assistance to them [the “White Helmets”].
Toner was responding to queries by journalists regarding why a
US-funded organization was receiving millions of dollars in assistance,
but whose leader is banned from traveling to the United States. Toner
attempted to claim the situation was “complicated,” but in reality, it
is a simple matter of the US once again arming and funding terrorists
abroad while simultaneously attempting to pose as fighting them back
home.
More recently, AP would report in an article titled, “Germany ups financial support for Syria’s White Helmets,” that:
Germany’s Foreign Ministry says it is increasing financial support for the Syria Civil Defense group, also known as the White Helmets.
The ministry said in a statement Friday that it has raised its funding for the group this year from 5 million euros ($5.61 million) to 7 million euros ($7.85 million).
With a sectarian extremist political party like the Muslim
Brotherhood, an armed force comprised of Al Qaeda and other extremist
groups, and an array of complicit alleged NGOs including the “White
Helmets,” the US and its allies have attempted to create a parallel
state within Syria – a parallel state it hopes will eventually inherit
the entirety of Syria’s territory, just as violent sectarian terrorist
factions have assumed control over Libya – deconstructing it as a
functioning nation state and plunging its people into open-ended,
perpetual catastrophe that is reverberating across the planet in the
form of terrorism and migrant crises.
The US and its partners
are posing as fighting against terrorism, while carving out entire
nations for Al Qaeda and its affiliates everywhere from the North
African nation of Libya, to the Levantine nation of Syria. It is a
foreign policy in reality that cannot be sustained with the unraveling
rhetoric used to promote and perpetuate it on the global stage,
particularly in front of the UN.
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
The original source of this article is New Eastern Outlook
Copyright © Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook, 2016
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