Dotting the I’S & Crossing the T’S
The world has to choose: The war against Syria Or against terrorism?
Written by Nasser Kandil,
There is no place for the desires and ambitions in the political attitude, it is an accurate consideration for the data and the balances, there is no place as well for the emotions like gloating, rage, deceit, and jaundice, but it is an outcome of realism, judiciousness, and objectivity. Those who hate the Syrian politics and its leadership not because of a damage that has been occurred to their countries by Syria, its leadership and policies, but because they have settled in one of the hot areas of the Middle East, that is infected and suffered from the Syrian politics, such as the Israeli territory, this is at least the case of all the Western countries without exception from France to America , while the case of the neighboring Arab and non Arab countries, especially Turkey, the matter is related in its depth with the difference of the choice with Syria about the attitude towards Israel, between the bet on America and its solutions, and the resistance choice and the balances of force.
It cannot be discussed what has happened and is happening in Syria neither from the point of view of validity or invalidity, with the presence or the absence of the internal reasons, nor according to the idealism or inefficiency of the regime, and the extent of its need for the reform, but from two different points namely, first, is it possible for the internal crisis to reach that extent in Syria without the attitudes of the abroad which have invested financial, media, intelligence, and military capacities that are enough to form data for a greater world war than the endurance’s energy of the major countries?. Second, are the attitudes of the Arabs and non Arabs of the abroad were a basis of the internal Syrian situation, and sympathy with the democracy and reform? Or they were for the account of interests and attitudes that have invested this situation as a title, till it becomes a formal detail that is hardly to be seen? Its value becomes zero in front of the size of the external crowd on one hand, and the change which has been entered through the appeal to Al-Qaeda organization for the bet of the victory against Syrian on the other hand?
We have arrived to what we are now; it is not our subject to say that the one who made the poison will taste it. This is the result of their deeds, the one who plays with the monster has to bear his wrong bets, or that the events have insured what Syria has frequently mentioned, but its voice was not heard, that the terrorism which they brought to Syria, will return to them, and that the essence of the war in Syria is the war against terrorism, all of this is right, but it is useful in a moral debate about the right and the wrong, but it does not change the balances of war.
Where we are today, the West accompanied by the Arabs and the non Arabs in the war against Syria, have their reasons of hostile towards Syria. Now they are recognizing the priority of the war against terrorism, they are receiving the blows of this terrorism, and recognizing the failure of their bets. What has happened in Australia, then on the Saudi borders, and then towards Turkish police station, and consequently, towards the disaster which occurred in France, and what is waiting for many countries, it becomes clear that they have recognized that they are targeted, the international aspect of the war which is waged by the terrorism insisted on the need to attack it.
We are in front of the fact that the countries of the war’s alliance against Syria which turn into ones of war’s alliance against terrorism are still living the illusion of their ability of combining between the two wars, so they talk about arming the Syrian opposers, and their attitudes towards the war against terrorism accompanied with the condition of not stopping the war against Syria, in addition to refusing the cooperation with the Syrian country, its army, and leadership.
We do not expect from the leaders of these countries which have linked their fate with the fate of their war against Syria to change their emotions and feelings, but we want to discuss how realistic their views and their considerations are. We have to ask this question, can we combine realistically between the two wars? Can we gather the capacities of people and the governments in two aggressions? Can the abilities of these countries which have failed while they were cooperating with the terrorism in achieving the victory against Syria, and winning against it, although they are fighting their former ally in addition to its fighting against Syria? And on the contrary, can the countries which have failed in their fighting the terrorism bear the bill of their fighting it, while they pay the bill of their fighting against Syria?
The facts say that the war against terrorism cannot be achieved unless it becomes a priority of the wars and politics, and they do not succeed in mobilizing capacities of the people, nations, and countries that have different feelings, because of the ambiguity of the attitudes of their leaders, and distributing their war between two opposite fronts where the feelings do not affect them. Thus, the schizophrenia does not present victory, moreover, the facts say that the mobilizing of the capabilities under the slogan of the war against terrorism is a global priority; it means that this war follows one criterion in putting the alliances and the aggressions honestly. In other words, Syria has to be the only ally according to this criterion, the facts state that the war against terrorism is a culture of coordination and priorities, and struggled cultural examples. So can the war against terrorism be achieved through the Wahhabi Saudi example which is without constitution, or through the example of Israel the Jewish state, or the example of Turkey the Muslim Brotherhood between an alliance that treated with ISIS and Al Nosrah secretly, and the public membership in the Atlantic alliance. These are examples that the terrorism project is making use of its presence and its legitimacy according to the principle of similarity in physics, and as in geography and politics, or it is fighting the terrorism according to a civil secular country like Syria. So how can the terrorism defeated by those who presented their project such as the Turkish, Saudi, and Israeli examples as allies against it like and putting Syria in the forefront of the enemies?.
The world insisted stubbornly during the war against terrorism, so it will bleed a lot, because the stupidity, hatred and the arrogance are the dominated criteria, before the wisdom and the realism in identifying and formulating the policies.
Translated by Lina Shehadeh,
2015-01-10 | عدد القراءات 1745
