Understanding that Syria is not an isolated crisis, but is tied to US
designs aimed at Iran and beyond, illustrates why O’Hanlon and other
Western policymakers’ proposals for a “political transition” or the
partitioning of Syria are unacceptable. It will not be the end of
regional conflict, but rather the end of just the beginning. The
successful destruction of Syria will portend war with Iran and beyond.
To understand the scope of that machine, one must look at who
underwrites and ultimately directs the work Brookings does. By doing so,
we can understand the very source of what drives the chaos in Syria,
and then go about stopping it.
Brookings’ 2014 annual report (.pdf) reveals
among others, the following sponsors from big-finance; JP Morgan Chase
& Co., Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, State Farm, MetLife, and
GEICO. From big-defense there’s; General Electric, Northrop Grumman, and
Raytheon. Big-telecom is represented by; Comcast, Google, Facebook,
AT&T, and Verizon. Big-oil; Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, British
Petroleum, and Shell. And even consumer corporations like Pepsi and
Coca Cola help underwrite what are essentially policy papers conspiring
to commit crimes against humanity that have since been systematically
carried out at the cost of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives.
It is the Fortune 500, centered on Wall Street and London, driving
the conflict in Syria and the larger arc of chaos consuming the MENA
region and beyond.
Russian and Syrian efforts aimed at
stemming the flow of weapons and cash over Syrian borders alone is not
going to “solve Syria.” Clearly the problem is larger than Syria, and
even larger than the geopolitical chaos the US has created arcing over
the MENA region. It is the unwarranted wealth, power, and influence that
drives that chaos that constitutes the ultimate source of the problem.
Disrupting or displacing that power will be difficult, and the failure
thus far to significantly disrupt or displace it is precisely why this
chaos continues.
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