Syrian Crisis .... The TEETERING BALANCE of POWER: No one really concerns about those who were killed by gasses or who are becoming the victims of this ongoing conflict ... Myself being a victim of State oppression in Indian held Kashmir we share same pain ... :/ Every country in the Middle East is reacting in its own egocentric way to the prospect of the US launching a military strike against Syria. For all their proclaimed concern for the human cost of the crisis, Syria’s neighbours worry most about the effect of US actions on the regional balance of power and its impact on long-standing conflicts and confrontations such as those between Israel and its opponents, Saudi Arabia and Iran, Sunni Muslims against Shia and the US against Russia. Israel’s position is firmly based on its own self-interests: It wants a US-led strike strong enough to weaken President Bashar al-Assad and his armed forces making it impossible for him to win the civil war in the long term. But Israel appears not to favour air attacks so powerful that they cripple the Syrian government military machine and hand victory to a militant Sunni opposition movement with links to al-Qa’ida. Israel is now declaring publicly what many in the Middle East have suspected has been the real policy of the US and its allies. This is to see a continuing conflict in which the two sides wear each other down as a better outcome than the decisive victory of either. “This is a playoff situation in which you need both teams to lose, but at last you don’t want one to win,” said Alon Pinas, a former Israeli consul general in New York, to The New York Times. “Let them both bleed, haemorrhage to death: that’s the strategic thinking here. As long as this lingers, there’s no real threat from Syria.”
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:59:04 +0000
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