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Debate on Syria: Chemical Weapons, Foreign Intervention, Regime Change and More…
How is the rhetoric of the West affecting the conflict in Syria? Is it an information war and if it is an endgame for Bashar al-Assad, what will replace his regime?
Free Syrian Army fighters sit in a house on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, June 12. (world.time.com)
by Sharmine Narwani
I haven’t posted any of my Syria media interviews on this blog – I figure most readers have heard these views from me in some form or other over the past eight months. It is worthwhile though to hear them in context of a broader discussion on Syria that includes other participants, with varying points of view.
Participants in the Voice of Russia (UK) radio discussion on Syria included:
VOR’s Brendan Cole, Guardian columnist, foreign correspondent and author Jonathan Steele; Associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa programme for Chatham House, London, Nadim Shehadi; head of the St Petersburg Centre for Modern Middle East studies, Gumer Isaev and — myself.
The discussion was broad, but focused largely on recent events inside the country: armed clashes in the major cities, Syria’s chemical weapons cache, foreign intervention, the militarization of the conflict, use of information warfare to create perceptions, regime change and even whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad still enjoys popularity.
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Mike Hughes, that’s one of the zionists’ favorite tricks. Noam Chomsky calls it “appearing to switch sides at the last minute”, to avoid being blamed.
The zionists were never against war with Iran, they just pretended to be, once they knew it was a done-deal. Their tactic with Libya and now Syria seems to be to start slow and create the “need” for NATO or larger “intervention” to play hero and “stabilize” the region.
Gotta hand it to the serpents, they’re experts at adapting strategy to the perceptions at the time. Never the same, but always variations on the same theme. Death and destruction for the master race.
True DaveE
“The motto of Israel’s foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, translates as “By way of deception you shall make war.” As every intelligence officer knows, covert actions aimed at deception are force multipliers, enabling a weaker party to create confusion and uncertainty in a stronger opponent. Sun Tzu called deception in military campaigns the key to victory.” Philip Giraldi in Pulp Fiction
Check this from Mossad Chief in Haaretz:
Mossad Chief : Nuclear Iran not necessarily existential threat to Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mossad-chief-nuclear-iran-not-necessarily-existential-threat-to-israel-1.404227