As the US mainstream media
obsessed last week about Russia's supposed “hacking” of the US elections and
President Obama’s final round of Russia sanctions in response, something very
important was taking place under the media radar. As a result of a meeting
between foreign ministers of Russia, Iran, and Turkey last month, a ceasefire in
Syria has been worked out and is being implemented. So far it appears to be
holding, and after nearly six years of horrible warfare the people of Syria are
finally facing the possibility of rebuilding their lives.
What is so
important about this particular ceasefire?
It was planned, agreed to, and
implemented without the participation of the United States
Government.
In fact it was frustration with Washington’s refusal to
separate its “moderates” from terrorist groups and its continued insistence on
regime change for the Syrian government that led the three countries to pursue a
solution on their own for Syria. They also included the Syrian government and
much of the opposition in the agreement, which the US government has been
unwilling to do.
We have been told all along by the neocons* and
“humanitarian interventionists” that the United States must take a central role
in every world crisis or nothing will ever be solved. We are the “indispensable
nation,” they say, and without our involvement the world will collapse. Our
credibility is on the line, they claim, and if we don’t step up no one will. All
this is untrue, as we have seen last week.
The fact is, it is often US
involvement in “solving” these crises that actually [creates and] perpetuates
them. Consider the 60-plus year state of war between North and South Korea.
Has US intervention done anything to solve the problem? How about our decades of
meddling in the Israel-Palestine dispute? Are we any closer to peace between the
Israelis and Palestinians despite the billions we have spent bribing and
interfering?
Non-intervention in the affairs of others does not damage
US credibility overseas. It is US meddling, bombing, droning, and
regime-changing that damages our credibility overseas. US obstruction in Syria
kept the war going. As the Syrians and Russians were liberating east Aleppo
from its four year siege by al-Qaeda, the Obama Administration was demanding a
ceasefire. As Syrians began to move back into their homes in east Aleppo, the
State Department continued to tell us that the Russians and Syrian government
were slaughtering civilians for the fun of it.
So why all the media
attention on unproven accusations of Russian hacking and President Obama’s
predictable, yet meaningless response? The mainstream media does the bidding of
Washington’s interventionists and
they are desperate to divert attention from
what may prove to be the beginning of the end of Syria’s long nightmare. They
don’t want Americans to know that the rest of the world can solve its own
problems without the US global policemen in the center of the action. When it is
finally understood that we don’t need to be involved for crises to be solved
overseas, the neocons will lose. Let’s hope that happens soon!
Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman. He details how corp took other countries
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