Battle for Raqqa

Date: 20 August 2017 - 20:58

News ID: ۴۳۱۹۵

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The participation lies of the United States and allies in the Raqqa offensive and their refusal to commit to accepting the legitimacy of Syrian government distract from the real threat to global peace and security.
Their refusal to give some credit at the United Nations to the ongoing battle against various terror outfits by the Syrian Army, Russian airpower and Iranian military advisors is an unprecedented attack on the foundation of the real war on terror. It rightly draws widespread condemnation from rights groups, political and diplomatic leaders.
It is now an open secret that it is Western powers that are fuelling sectarian conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. They do this by selling and supplying large quantities of weapons to puppet regimes, which in return hand them over to proxy armies and militant groups.
This is a dangerous trend. Continuing the War on Terror, including the ISIL war, is a very small problem in international politics, which international protocols at the United Nations are meant to address, but is exceedingly rare. As proven over and over – a very current example is ISIL’s terror attacks in Spain and Finland – the world is more likely to be stuck forever in the quagmire that is America’s forever war. The Pentagon officials say it will continue for another 20 years. Which means ending the War on Terror is a much bigger problem than continuing it.
Here, the real danger to fighting all declinations of demented Salafi-Takfiris, whatever their terminology, stems from the U.S.-led efforts to make it even harder for the incorporated and affiliated proxies to lose the running battles. UN resolutions that accuse Russia and Syria of committing war crimes and refuse to make the difference between a moderate and extremist terrorist make it equally harder for many UN member states to stand for humanity.
As a consequence, those who are fighting the real war on terror and want an end to this global mess - a determined Syria/Iran/Iraq/Russia alliance committed to keep a unitary Syria and a unitary Iraq - are lacking crucial protections from the talking heads at the UN.
This is the problem we should be focusing on. The U.S., its allies and their hordes of media shills have hegemonic narrative about the battle for Raqqa with conflicting motivations. What they want is forever war, even if that requires non-stop spins to buy time and rearm "moderate rebels”, support brutal Arab tyrannies that fund terrorists, let thousands of terrorists escape Raqqa as long as they head straight to Syria, and sabotage UN-brokered ceasefires.