Washington changes its policies towards Syria.
Orkhan Sattarov. Exclusively to VK
While news about the victims of the civil war is daily released in media, the world powers advance their political interests in Syria. In Zagreb during a visit to Croatia, Hillary Clinton, the head of US diplomacy, spoke about corrections concerning Syria, what indicates a change in the views of the US.
However, the USA doesn’t refuse to replace the Assad regime. Moreover, Western countries wouldn’t negotiate with the Syrian official government. According to Clinton, the USA will press the Assad regime and won’t wait until Russia and China change their position concerning Syria.
"We have recommended names and organizations that we believe should be included in any leadership structure," Clinton said. "We've made it clear that the SNC can no longer be viewed as the visible leader of the opposition. They can be part of the larger opposition, but that opposition must include people inside Syria and others who have a legitimate voice that needs to be heard." Her remarks come as preparations are under way for meetings next week in Doha, Qatar, that will focus on the composition of a post-Assad political leadership in Syria.
Ms. Clinton’s comments represented a clear break with the Syrian National Council (SNC), a largely foreign-based group which has been among the most vocal proponents of international intervention in the Syrian conflict. US officials have privately expressed frustration with the SNC’s inability to come together with a coherent plan and with its lack of traction with the disparate internal groups which have waged the uprising against Assad’s government. "This cannot be an opposition represented by people who have many good attributes, but have in many instances not been in Syria for 20, 30 or 40 years," Clinton said during a news conference. "There has to be representation of those who are on the front lines fighting and dying today."
Clinton reiterated concerns that opposition forces are not doing enough to stem the tide of Islamic extremists who are exploiting the violent situation on the ground in Syria. Ms. Clinton said it was important that the next rulers of Syria were both inclusive and committed to rejecting extremism. “There needs to be an opposition that can speak to every segment and every geographic part of Syria. And we also need an opposition that will be on record strongly resisting the efforts by extremists to hijack the Syrian revolution,” she says.
Instead, Washington will unilaterally seek to escalate that war with the aim of effecting regime-change and installing a puppet government aligned with US interests in the Middle East. Clinton goes on to describe US efforts to “groom” a new leadership to serve as a front for Washington’s project. She allowed that the American government had “facilitated the smuggling-out of a few representatives of the Syrian internal opposition” so that they could appear before representatives of the so-called Friends of Syria, comprised of the US and its allies.
The SNC itself, however, has rejected the US plan, calling its own conference in Doha in the immediate run-up to the US-sponsored meeting and indicating that it is prepared to fight to preserve its franchise as the “legitimate” opposition backed by the western powers.
However, the anger of the Syrian National Council could change nothing. Next week a new board of the opposition will be formed with the participation of the USA. During the opposition meeting in Doha former Prime Minister Riyad Farid Hijab will be included in a new post-Assad government. This could be considered as a signal for the Syrian elite that they have a chance to support the opposition. However, there is no answer as to who will win in the civil war.
