The “Happy Ending” That Western Powers Want for Syria

Due to the war between the major western powers and their allies from the Persia Gulf against Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libya is mired in chronic violence. The funders of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) bombings still insist that it was a humanitarian operation, intending to make the world believe that the recent elections are the medicine that will contribute to healing, once and for all, a nation torn apart by warmongering imperialist ventures.

That is why the mass media supported NATO’s war craze and the oil hunger of its principal ringleaders (the U.S., France and the UK) presenting a country that is at last getting to know what democracy is. They create a false image of the recovery of stability after the Atlantic Alliance and its army, the militias from the National Transitional Council (NTC), destroyed Gaddafi’s regime, whom they obscenely tortured and murdered.

Their accounts do not take into consideration the ethnic cleansing, the persecution of the Libyan leader’s followers, the settling of accounts and the human rights violations (the war was allegedly to save them). What they do make a big deal out of is the recovery of oil production, a sector that contributed the most to the country’s budget. The British oil company BP and the Italian ENI returned following Libyan crude.

The recent elections to choose the so-called General National Congress which will write the new constitution and will serve as a provisional government, replacing the NTC, did not result in the success that the main transnational media claims. The journey was marked by boycott, criticism of the illegitimate NTC and threats of territorial divisions.

Nevertheless, the U.N. celebrated the elections, and the President of the United States Barack Obama defined them as a landmark in what he claims is an “extraordinary transition to democracy.”

However, western powers did not recognize the multiparty parliamentary elections celebrated in Syria, after a new constitution was passed by referendum which put an end to the Baaz party’s monopoly and which reflected popular demands, as part of the process of political reforms that Bashar al-Assad’s government is pushing forward to avoid foreign intervention. Then, the U.N.’s general secretary, Ban Ki-moon, downplayed the elections because, he said, they had not taken place in a setting of peace and democracy. The United States was aggressive in its claims that the elections were ridiculous. A far cry from the benevolent words with which they referred to Libya days earlier.

They did not recognize the process because it was not carried out according to their plans and interests. Furthermore, they have not been able to oust al-Assad or take down the Baaz party. That is why they will continue their secret war against Damascus. NATO says that it is not considering the possibility of military intervention, but it does have agents in the bordering zones, offering help to armed opposition groups and was, without doubt, implicated in the incursion of Turkish planes into Syrian waters, with the objective of further militarizing the conflict.

The axis Washington – Paris – London – Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf is putting on a front when they say they support dialogue with the Syrians, showing their true face when they urge opponents not to give up arms and offer them support.

Once again, they are now pushing forward a new resolution in the Security Council that invokes the seventh chapter of The United Nations Charter, which discusses economic sanctions through to the usage of force. Only Russia and China continue to hold back on repeating the Libyan model.

In the Syrian case, the objectives are even more ambitious: control the oil routes, holding Iran captive (Syria is the Persian nation’s only ally in the region); weaken Hezbollah; withdraw Russia from the Tartus, the only base for stocking and docking their boats in the Mediterranean; and further clear Israel’s path to occupying Arab territory. For that purpose, they have to demolish once and for all the wall of contention Syria represents, though the price might be a bloody war. If they are to achieve their ambitions, the U.S. and their allies will celebrate the Syrian chaos as just another of their happy endings.