“DECADE OF DECADENCE”

How the period of the last ten years of Washington's interventionist policy in the Middle East can be read

By Charles H. Slim

Cairo protest in 2010

Eight years ago, a series of popular mobilizations would begin in all of North Africa that under the apparent slogan of calling for the destitution of the authoritarian and corrupt governments of the region hid an extensive and detailed plan to cause the collapse of some governments Lay Arabs (without touching the Arab monarchies) that for Washington had ceased to be functional.

Mobilizing and directing public opinion was essential and for that we had to make a story. The slogan that the western media that caratula all this was headed by editorials that were nuanced by the words "democracy and freedom", as a way of arguing the violent protests that in a "magical" and gradual way were armed and organized to then assassinate citizens of convulsed countries.

The history elaborated by the western media and some Arabs linked to the Persian Gulf monarchies (such as “Al Jazeera” and “Al Arabiya”), would relate with enthusiasm and biased supposed episodes of crimes committed (montage of images, falsification of audios and even makeup of alleged wounded) by the Libyan and Egyptian authorities who almost immediately spread them via satellite all over the world, were unmasked by bloggers and independent investigators who warned many of those images as simple lies and forgeries. It was without a doubt a great operation of manipulation of public opinion using social networks as a tool.

That symbiotic long preexisting relationship between news media and intelligence agencies would be evident to public opinion.

the new Obama tactics

As it was evident all that had been planned long before and the deployment of agitators and mercenaries that would later appear before the cameras as Libyan "rebels" had already landed in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen) a year and a half before that "spring" without these movements had awakened the alerts or curiosity of CENTCOM, the CIA and much less of the Western media.

Nor were Western governments and media moved by the collaboration of "Al Qaeda" and affiliated groups with French and British efforts to seize Libya. It should not be forgotten that after this embarrassing connection (materialized with Al Qaeda training camps), nothing less than the then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be involved, seriously questioned after the clear incident in 2012 of the embassy in Benghazi in which was involved the CIA and one of these groups "Takfir".

The outcome of the story is already known but currently the dynamics of all this has resulted in an outcome not imagined and even adverse to the plans of Washington, Brussels and Tel Aviv, central partners behind all this play that aspired to accelerate Western intervention throughout the Arab world replacing the chaos strategy using resources such as "Al Qaeda" and then "ISIS". As will be seen, those who resisted these “soft coup” operations would lead to the use of subversive resources against them and massively.

It should not be forgotten that since the assumption of Barack Obama in January 2009, the policy around the Middle East region changed the ways of proceeding but keeping the bottom line: Keeping chaos controlled. For this I try to co-opt the sympathy of Muslims with the political support of the Muslim Brotherhood and at the same time -and covertly- develop new secret tactical programs such as the “ISIS” to continue with the appearance of a necessary global terrorist threat of combat (causing more deaths of innocent civilians) and in turn eliminate those who could not be convinced by these guidelines.

This was what happened with Syria since 2011, where after trying to recreate the same situation in North Africa (particularly in Egypt and Libya), the planners found that the Damascus government was more solid and organized than its previous ones. victims since, according to sources in the region, the Syrian security and intelligence forces would have taken note of what those same actors had done to their neighbor Iraq since 2003 and that today is completely dismembered.

The main instigators (France, Great Britain, Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia) for overthrowing the Bashar Al Assad government had collaborated closely and successfully in Libya and after their irremissible failure to achieve their purposes, gave way to the entry of the US who since The Department of State in charge at that time of Donald Rumsfeld and his freak of neoconservatives and Zionists, had already planned since 2003 to dismantle the Syrian national state. It should not be forgotten that since 2001 the neo-conservative administration of Bush-Cheney was deploying an ambitious geopolitical plan of global scope that would be broken alongside a strategic doctrine that based on military intervention we would later know as "Rumsfeld / Cebrowski."

But the farce of the Arab Spring in the first instance was motorized by the France of Nicholas Sarkosy and the Great Britain of James Cameron in order to seize the strategic resources of Libya and in turn recover seats of a disappeared colonialism. But the real goals to be achieved were geostrategic and they would serve Israel. The same claims were brought against Syria but despite the brutal efforts, they failed without remedy.

Clinton hilarious with Al Qaeda commanders in Tripoli

Perhaps it was the participation of Russia that failed the efforts of the initial plotters and accelerated the American income, but the truth is that this has definitely changed the balance of power in the Middle East. Today we can ensure that this is a reality and Russia is the new influential actor in the region.

From 2009 to the present, the geopolitical situation in the Middle East has always been reconfigured for the benefit of foreign actors, especially Tel Aviv. And while the US was the main engine - behind which Israel is covered - to attempt the scrapping of the Syrian Arab Republic, it is currently the big loser not only in the political and diplomatic aspect but also in relation to its once military superiority with which could overwhelm anyone who did not accept their conditions. All this has happened thanks to a schizophrenic Trump administration that, beyond its inconsistencies, has cut in part with the warmongering policy that Bush started in 2001 and that Obama continued wearing makeup after supposed airs of progressivism, unleashing accusations such as being "A Russian asset."

That is why in a recount of American activities in this last decade, we only see a continuity in the geopolitics of expansion and for this reason they do not repair in specifying more violations of international law with illegal interventions sowing greater doubts about the veracity of their struggle against terrorism, a blatant use of force and mafia tactics (elimination of agent Bin Ladem and Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi) that circulate with a growth of humanitarian calamity with millions of immigrants crossing the Mediterranean to flee the countries involved by the US and its partners. So what can we call this if it is not pure decay?