Whither Syria?
"It is important that the international community move to resolve this problem and deliver a powerful message to the Syrian government." Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali BabacanSyria, despite assurances to the contrary, has spurned the Arab League demand to allow monitors to vet what is occurring in the country as it descends further into outright civil war. Another pledge of the regime, to withdraw its army from cities, while nothing could be further from reality. The army still besieges those strongholds of Syrian defiance to the regime, still killing protesters.
As for the unified position of the Arab League on imposing biting new sanctions on Syria, (already reeling economically from EU- and US-Canada-imposed sanctions), unity eludes the League membership. Iraq has announced it will not take part. Nor will Lebanon. Nor will Algeria. Jordan appears to be hesitating, despite the strong words of King Abdullah to Bashar al-Assad to step aside.
"Iraq is a neighbour to Syria and there are interests - there are hundreds of thousands of Iraqis living in Syria and there is trade. Lebanon also has the same idea and Jordan, too, has shown its objection."Syria's central bank is to be isolated. Senior Syrian officials may no longer travel to neighbouring countries, and commercial flights will be cut off. Army deserters are battling with the regime's soldiers. And now Damascus insists that regional powers are inciting the violence, an accusation formerly levelled against 'foreign' interference and Israel.
It is hugely instructive to view the fluidity of the governing situation of the Middle East in the past ten months. So much has changed. Not the least of which is the removal of tyrants with the imminent replacement of Islamists who will be equally tyrannical. And then there is Turkey where an Islamist government finally overturned a long period of secular rule.
There is Turkey and its current slate of governing elite who had forged a new alliance in the Arab world, which has not yet quite shed its friendship with Aryan Persia, still has not defined a potentially new relationship with Lebanon and Hezbollah and Gazan Hamas, and has denied the Syrian dynasty's legitimacy.
Labels: Arab League, Conflict, Societal Failures, Syria
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, November 27, 2011
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