Behind the News: Is America Ceasing Its Support for Terrorism?

What is new in the American government’s position on the crisis in Syria? This question has arisen after America’s Department of State called for ending support for the Islamic State of Iraq, the Levant and the al-Nusra Front and, likewise, stopping the flow of armed fighters into Syria.

The American government was, and still is, the first to learn of the secrets behind current affairs, new developments and the continuous increase of terrorists. It also knows the sources of money, weapons, and even the terrorists themselves and their travel routes into what they have dubbed their “Land of Jihad.” It knows who has been committing crimes since March 2011. It knows for sure that the double detonation of car bombs in Damascus that coincided with the beginning of the Arab observers’ mission in Syria was the work of al-Qaida, just as it knows that the string of criminal operations conducted in Damascus, Homs, Aleppo, Idlib and Deir ez-Zor was al-Qaida’s work, too. This is true especially because the military, intelligence, and even monetary coordination between America and Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and some Lebanese parties has reached its most extreme level.

But America, as the world has grown accustomed to witnessing, kills the victim and then walks in his funeral procession. Likewise, it will create a collaborator and exploit him in the most horrendous ways and then wash its hands of him after it begins relying on another collaborator. Or it whitewashes his image to market him and exploit him in the military and political arenas a second time. This America, which has apparently withdrawn its support for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the al-Nusra Front and advised the leaders of the countries who participate in creating, supporting and sending the terrorists to cease doing that, is now trying to present itself as in harmony with the requirements of Geneva II.

If it is genuine in its direction and its instructions to its allies to stop what they are doing, this will reflect immediately on the course of the crisis in Syria and enable the Geneva II conference to achieve its most important objective: confronting and containing the terrorists and clearing the way for the political process. If, on the other hand, it is doing this to market what they named the “Islamic Front,” which the Saudis created as an alternative to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the al-Nusra Front, then America is gambling with not just the future of the region, but the future of the world, which has entered an open confrontation with terrorist organizations. Those new organizations are more extreme and more criminal than al-Qaida itself. The evidence of this is found in the actions and massacres carried out by the so-called “Islamic Front” in the industrial city of Adra.

The whole world now awaits a more objective stance from the American government, one through which it disowns those organizations and the countries that support them. In the absence of such a stance, the countries and peoples of the world must confront America and treat it as a terrorist country because, even though it pretends to fight terrorism, its policies over the last three decades have turned many safe countries into countries whose people, economy and infrastructure have been decimated by terror.