Alwaght- The Syrian conflict now enters its fifth year, with hundreds of thousands killed and millions displaced. The Syra crisis was triggered by protests against the Syrian govrnment, where the issues between the government and the opposition were expected to be resolved through dialogue. However, the armed actions of the opposition against the Syrian government have dragged the country into the chaos . In this process, the Western-Arabian axis found the Syrian internal conflict as an opportunity to undermine the government of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. From the beginning of the protests, this axis provided all means of military support to the opposition. Eventually, this support led to the strengthening and unprecedented growth of terrorist groups in the Middle East, including the rise of the ISIS terrorist group . ISIS is considered the most important achievement of the Western-Arabian plan to aid and strengthen anti-government groups in Syria.
Since the beginning of the terrorist conflict in Syria, more than two hundred thousand people have lost their lives, and nearly nine and half million Syrians have been displace inside and outside the country. This issue was consider by UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees as the largest exodus in the history of the world. UNICEF’s data release in late August have indicated that the number of internally displaced has reach six million, of which three million are children under the age of fifteen.
Yet despite this difficult worrisome situation, after the numerous warnings issued by the Syrian government to the Western-Arab countries regarding their support to the terrorist militants, the US Secretary of State John Kerry announced in his most recent interview that his country is forced to negotiate with the legitimate Syrian government to deal with terrorism.
In the CBS interview, Kerry did not repeat the standard US line that al Assad had lost all his legitimacy and has to go, but rather he used softer diplomatic touch. “We have to negotiate in the end,” Kerry said. The Secretary of State added that the US and other governments are exploring ways to reignite the diplomatic process to end the conflict in Syria. “Because everybody agrees there is no military solution. There is only a political solution. But to get the Assad regime to negotiate, we’re going to have to make it clear to him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change his calculation about negotiating. That is under way right now. And—and I am convinced that with the efforts of our allies and others, there will be increased pressure on Assad,” Kerry said.
However, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has stated that he is awaiting concrete indications that the US really wants to begin dialogue aimed at resolving the Syrian conflict. “We are still listening to the comments, and we have to wait for the actions, and then we’ll decide,” al-Assad told Syrian television on Monday. He welcomed any change of stance that would stop “logistical, financial and military support to terrorists” from third parties.
However, until today the Western-Arab axis continues to provide military and security support to the terrorist groups in Syria, with sparing nothing. Even in cases such as Moscow 1 talks when Syrian expressed its readiness to negotiate with the non-terrorist and unarmed opposition in order to solve the Syrian conflict, the Western-Arab financial and logistical support, especially the US, to the terrorist groups prevented the wrapping up of the negotiations.
The main question here: why the US government now forced into a dialogue with al-Assad’s government, after nearly five years of providing military and Intel support to the terrorist groups fighting against the Syrians?
First, the Western-Arab supported acts of terrorisms and war against the Syrian government failed to overthrow the legal Syrian government and to bring the Syrian nation to kneel. The Syrian government continues to succeed in enforcing the rule of law in many parts of the country.
On the other hand, the profound differences and divisions among Bashar al-Assad’s terrorist opponents, in addition to the spread of Salafism and ideological fundamentalism among them has shown that Syria’s future stability and the fight against terrorism can be achieved only through al-Assad being in power. In fact, ousting al-Assad from power in Syria means the rise of a highly Salafist-fundamentalist government, which would not protect the Western interests in the Middle East in the long-term.
Moreover, the growth of terrorism in the Middle East after the crisis in Syria, with the support of Western intelligence services, has created a situation today that have put Western European countries in the shadows of the growing terrorism. The published threating messages against Western embassies in the Middle East, as well as the recent security incidents on the Western countries’ soil are all symbols of the growing impact of terrorism in the Middle East on the national security of the West.
In fact fighting terrorism in the Middle East requires cutting off support from any terrorist group under any title. The problem is that the West has failed so far in committing to the real issues in the region. In some cases, the West has shown that it is oriented to cooperate with the regional governments against terrorism; however, in the same time it continues to support terrorist actions. This situation not only maintained terrorism in the region, but also fueled the spread of terrorism in the Middle East.
