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Swordsmyth
10-03-2018, 03:01 PM
A recently uncovered U.S. government document (https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/emailid/2867729) published by WikiLeaks has revealed that the U.S. directly advocated for undermining “democratic” elements of the so-called Syrian “revolution” of 2011 in order to ensure the dominance of authoritarian, sectarian Sunni groups within the Syrian opposition.
The document, written by the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Intelligence Department in late 2011, further asserts that empowering these radical Sunni groups over democratic and secular ones would be ideal for the United States and its regional partners, as ensuring the decline of the current Syrian government, and with it a secular Syria, would harm Iran’s regional clout.
In other words, the U.S. openly supported undermining democratic opposition forces in Syria in order to challenge Iranian influence and, with it, the influence of the Middle East’s “resistance axis” that obstructs the imperialistic agendas of the U.S. and its regional allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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According to the document, which was buried in a previous WikiLeaks release and recently uncovered (https://mondediplo.com/outside-in/syria-democracy-documents) by journalist Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, U.S. military intelligence was well aware that the Syrian opposition movement in 2011 did not pose “a meaningful threat against the [Syrian] regime,” given that it was “extremely fractured” and “operating under enormous constraints.”
It also noted that “reports of protests [against the Syrian government] are overblown,” even though “the exiled [Syrian] opposition has been quite effecting (sic) in developing a narrative on the Syrian opposition to disseminate to major media agencies.”
That narrative — which was subsequently promoted by several foreign governments, including the U.S., the U.K., Turkey and France — falsely claimed that the protests were massive and involved largely peaceful protestors “rising up (https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3580.htm)” against the “autocratic” government led by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
This document (https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/12/12390_USMC%20draft.docx), as well as substantial evidence (https://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/syria-crisis/1135-day-before-deraa.html) that has emerged (https://www.fliuch.org/syria-not-a-revolution/) over the last several years (https://sarahabed.com/2017/02/08/war-in-syria-staged-uprising-not-a-revolution/), shows that this narrative, of a “peaceful uprising” seeking to establish a secular and “democratic” Syria, has never been true, as even U.S. military intelligence knew that the reports regarding these “peaceful” protests were highly exaggerated.
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More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-02/wikileaks-weaken-iran-us-undermined-democratic-elements-syrian-opposition-empower