Hypocrisy Over Syria
While Qatar and Saudi Arabia arm and fund the rebels of Syria to overthrow Bashar al-Assad's Alawite/Shia-Baathist dictatorship, Washington mutters not a word of criticism against them. President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, say they want a democracy in Syria. But Qatar is an autocracy and Saudi Arabia is among the most pernicious of caliphate-kingly-dictatorships in the Arab world. Rulers of both states inherit power from their families – just as Bashar has done – and Saudi Arabia is an ally of the Salafist-Wahabi rebels in Syria, just as it was the most fervent supporter of the medieval Taliban during Afghanistan's dark ages. More from Robert Fisk here.
Excellent piece. It's tragic that Syrians remain pawns on the board of foreign powers. Washington and the EU cannot fail to respond and assist Syria's revolutionaries, but they are clearly influenced by ulterior motives of self-interest. And obviously the KSA is primarily concerned with expanding its own authoritarian sphere of influence. In term of East-West propaganda, two wrongs make for a lot of wrong,
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