Paul R. Potts
So the third battle in the “War on Terrorism” has begun. (The first was Afghanistan, lest we forget).
A great piece from Gary Leupp in Counterpunch here:
Colin Powell (not a neocon, but their sometimes reluctant spokesman) told Syria’s President Assad in May that Syria would be “on the wrong side of history” unless he took action against Palestinian militant groups in Syria, and prevented volunteers from crossing the 400 mile-long Syria-Iraq border to assist the Iraqi resistance to occupation. Being “on the right side of history,” you see, means being on the side of those whose roadmap for peace simply requires Arab governments, like the one in Damascus, to ally with the U.S., recognize Israel, collaborate in the suppression of Palestinian militancy, close down Palestinian news media, accept a noncontiguous Palestinian Bantustan state, acknowledge the demographic inconvenience to Israel of the Palestinian right to return, absorb the Palestinian refugee population at their own expense, eliminate any weapons of mass destruction which might threaten nuclear Israel, actively suppress elements of Islam objectionable to Israel and the U.S., and accept the U.S. occupation of Iraq. It would be helpful, too, if they fully open their markets, place their banks, industries and utilities under foreign control, and host U.S. military bases. That’s how to board the historical bandwagon and help implement inevitability.