A War in Loss Mode: US Establishing “Observation Posts” on Syria-Turkey Border

Rasa - The United States, which lost the regime-change war on Syria, is now establishing “observation posts” with the purported aim of occupying the post-ISIL country forever.

News ID: 442080

Date: 13 December 2018 - 18:26

RNA - Washington, of course, claims its illegal “observation posts” in northern Syria are designed to prevent clashes between Turkish forces and US-backed Kurdish militants, which is hard to believe by anyone. Amid strong dissent to the plan, Syrian and Turkish officials have called on Washington to lift the so-called observation posts. Ankara has also expressed its concerns about US plans to set up the “observation posts”, a move that Turkey says could lead to a perception that Washington is “somehow protecting terrorist YPG (Kurdish People’s Protection Units) members.”

No doubt the United States government and its terror proxy forces and allies want to continue the failed war on Syria despite mounting criticism over the humanitarian situation and refugee crisis. They have failed to address the humanitarian crisis. If the regime changers continue to occupy the country, another regional catastrophe or war is inevitable.

Such complacency and inaction in the West all illustrate diverse manifestations of political paralysis as well, abdicating their grave responsibility for helping to rebuild the war-torn country. International political organizations and Western governments, including the United Nations, must highlight the Syrian-emergency issue immediately, urgently drawing up comprehensive policies to address it. They must voluntarily fund comprehensive reconstruction-protection policies in the war-torn nation, to compensate the latter for suffering an unnecessary war and humanitarian crisis, unsustainable economic development and growth, and paying recompense for plundering its energy resources, including oil, gas and ancient artefacts.

In addition, concerned governments and global citizens should rise up and organize against current US policies in Syria and beyond, including Yemeni people's rights advocacy, ending the Saudi-led war, blockade and man-made famine, and reparatory justice. The world community must collectively do whatever is necessary politically and non-violently, to persuade American politicians and Western leaders to relinquish their complacency and denial. Their "business as usual" in Syria and their permanent occupation policy is no longer an option. The world community should no longer put up with this failure of Washington’s international duty.

The United States government, especially Western governments and Persian Gulf Arab allies, must commit to accepting the need to leave post-war Syria, close their illegal military bases and “observation posts” there, stop aiding and abetting militant groups, and not only uphold International Law and International Humanitarian Law, but also their responsibilities to allow the Syrian people determine their own fate and political future.

As hard as it may be to believe, the US-led regime changers still loom over the lives of Syrian people and their devastated country – with no intention to leave them alone. The new “observation posts” is really just another version of Trump’s new regime-change campaign in on Syria.

All in all, this colonial policy shouldn’t really surprise any of us. Unbelievably enough, despite all evidence to the contrary, there is still an actual hope out there somewhere in Syria among its people, even if Washington, regional allies and terror proxies’ figures have thrown so much of it into shadow. We are talking about a nation that wants to be at peace with itself and its neighbours, and doesn’t want, in particular, an American imperial world of war and preparations for permanent occupation and terror; that should be condemned at the United Nations and dealt with accordingly.

According to Fars News Agancy, in the wake of the new “observation posts” in Syria, it is obvious that neither the Trump administration officials and American leaders nor their Saudi-Israeli allies in the region give a damn about the escalating numbers of dead civilians in terror-held areas. They have merely brought to Syria a process long underway in which America’s bogus war on terror, which might more accurately be thought of as a war to spread terror, had long ago retreated to the far side of nowhere.

They are undoubtedly from among the very crew who have, over the last four years, helped turn Yemen into a failed state too, a quagmire of their own which can be defined as the edge of yet another defeat. Even there, they are still spreading war, humanitarian crisis, and illegal military bases and “observation posts”.

Think of it this way: Washington’s “observation posts” in Syria and elsewhere in the region is either unique to, or even attributable to, the Trump administration. Trump has merely continued a colonial process long underway in which America’s never-ending wars and military occupations to spread terror and devastation had long ago proven to be a failed foreign policy.

Similarly, the current intervention policy in Syria will be a failed militarized regional policy. What war-party Washington and the mere extras are doing in northern Syria is in no way in the “service” of regional peace and security – let alone “prevent clashes between Turkish forces and US-backed Kurdish militants.” Their illegal military installations, ranging from small “observation posts” to enormous, still expanding bases are indeed a war in loss mode. To put this in the context of the new great game in Syria, it will go nowhere.

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