The American Clown Has Used Up His Tricks

The global war against Syria has revealed many of the pages of the failure-containment plan drawn up by David Petraeus before accepting the job of CIA director, who enjoys the opportunity to combine the espionage and security missions of the agency, the command of political operations and indirect U.S. wars to destroy the enemies of American hegemony in the world and the Middle East in particular. Petraeus is the man behind the curtain, defining the operation to build alliances among the governments, powers and parties participating in the war against Syria. He is the originator of the theory of mutual understanding with the Muslim Brotherhood; he charged both William Burns and Jeffrey Feltman in the Department of State with executing it and taking its agreements to the international stage. The meeting Feltman held in Paris with the Gulf and international alliance, responsible for the plan to destroy Syrian strength, involved assigning roles with the goal of activating the military propositions on Syrian soil and designing mechanisms to aid the militias of the “Istanbul Council” with money and arms, setting out from Turkey and Lebanon in particular.

According to reports, the meeting led by Jeffrey Feltman included the Saudi foreign minister, Abd al-Haleem Khaddam; the Qatari foreign minister; a delegation from the “Istanbul Council,” Sa’ad Hariri; and two deputies from the French and British intelligence services. The meeting produced the draft resolution which Saud al-Faisal proposed to the Arab League Council. Jeffrey Feltman took charge of conveying the results to Turkey’s foreign minister Davutoglu before the latter’s trip to Washington, to work to gain clear American support by activating the operations room Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base to furnish new quantities of weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood’s militants and the takfiri extremist cells on the ground.

The dilemma facing the war on Syria and the parties in colluding in it is the result of the international obstinacy produced by the dual Russian-Chinese veto and the firm Russian stance that reached the point of officially directing warnings at the U.S. administration and its allies and promising to stand with Syria and its allies in case of any military venture. This comes at a time when experts are assertively ruling out any possibility like this because of the invulnerability of the Syrian position, the equation of deterrence that the community of the Resistance possesses in the region and the United States’ and Europe’s refraining from going along with some of the Gulf states insisting on backing the Arab League Council’s resolution asking to send UN-Arab peacekeeping forces to Syria. This reluctance is the practical outcome of the fears of the NATO countries, led by the United States of America, for the fate of “Israel” because any military challenge raised against Syria is a candidate for becoming a greater regional war that Syria will enter against Israel. And Iran will not be far from its front lines, as the Iranian leadership informed all those concerned.

In this manner, the war against Syria is turning into a global proxy war in which enormous financial and military powers mass and increase the pressure to the highest level possible in the hope of weakening the Syrian state. They hope to fragment the solidarity displayed by the Syrian people, rallying around their state and president and backing the Syrian Arab army in its operations to crush the centers of terrorism and rebellion in some regions, especially in the central provinces of Homs, Idlib and rural Hama.

Based on confirmed information from multiple intelligence, media and political agencies, al-Qaida has deployed hundreds of elements to the Syrian interior from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Syrian authorities have much evidence and many names, while it became known that sites belonging to al-Qaida announced the killing of a number of its elements in Syria. This was known to the degree that the “Ansar al-Sham” network, connected to al-Qaida, disclosed the deaths of the Jordanian Abu al-Bara’ al-Sult in the Aleppo countryside; of Abu Osama al-Muhajir and Abu Sara al-Imarati, while smuggling arms from Iraq into Syria; and the wounding of an Iraqi called Abu Hamid al-Jaburi, all of whom are from “al-Qaida.” In addition, United Press International mentioned the killing in Zabadani of five of the most dangerous terrorists, including the Kuwaiti Abu Hadhifa and four others from different nations. This is at a time when Syrian authorities have terrorist detainees of diverse nationalities, from Tunisia to Afghanistian, Pakistan and Libya, in addition to the Gulf states, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. Ayman al-Zawahiri’s announcement after months of al-Qaida participation in the war was the finishing touch to agreements the U.S. intelligence services made with “al-Qaida” after the announcement of Osama bin Laden’s elimination and the start of negotiations with the Taliban under Qatar’s supervision.

Some experts say that in their faltering war against Syria, the Americans are going “all in” and today look like the clown who has taken everything out of his pockets and has no tricks left to play. Those experts regard the severe tension dominating some of the “moderate Arab” countries as a result of the progress of the decisive operations being undertaken by Syrian Arab forces on the street, operations portending the destruction of the essential infrastructure of the terrorist gangs financed from abroad through Lebanon and Turkey. These terrorist gangs represent a backup that can be relied on to wear down the Syrian state and its position of resistance, which some Arab leaders dream of forcing into a corner and getting rid of its burden. This is the resistance that prevented them from passing the plan to settle the Palestinian issue, erase it from the Arab agenda and move on to wider, overt relations with “Israel.” This is where the essence of the United States lies.