WANmahani - Naib Presiden Joe Biden telah menuduh sekutu utama
Amerika di Timur Tengah membenarkan kebangkitan Negara Islam (IS), dgn
berkata mereka menyokong pelampau dengan wang dan senjata dalam keghairahan
mereka untuk menggulingkan rejim Assad di Syria.
"Masalah paling besar" Amerika di Syria
adalah sekutu serantaunya, Biden mem-beritahu pelajar di John F. Kennedy Jr
Forum di Institut Politik di Universiti Harvard pada Khamis.
"Sekutu kami di rantau ini adalah masalah kita
yang terbesar di Syria," katanya, menjelaskan bahawa Turki, Arab Saudi dan
UAE adalah "begitu berazam untuk mengambil Assad," yang dalam erti
kata mereka memulakan "perang proksi Sunni-Syiah" dgn menuang
"beratus-ratus juta dolar & berpuluh-puluh ribu tan senjata"
terhadap sesiapa pun yang akan menentang Assad.
"Dan kita tidak dapat meyakinkan rakan-rakan kami untuk menghentikan
bekalan mereka," kata Biden, dengan itu memisahkan Amerika Syarikat dari
melepaskan perang saudara di Syria.
"Hasil daripada polisi seperti itu kini adalah lebih jelas,"
katanya, seperti yang ternyata mereka dibekalkan pelampau dari Al-Nusra depan
dan Al-Qaeda.
Tiba-tiba kuasa serantau yang ditaja pemberontak
anti-Assad dikejutkan dengan fajar ancaman keselamatan antarabangsa utama dalam
menghadapi ISIS - kini dikenali sebagai Negara Islam.
Setelah asasnya tercampak keluar dari Iraq ia
mendapati kawasan lapang dan wilayah di timur Syria dan menubuhkan hubungan
rapat dengan Al-Nusra Front mana Amerika Syarikat sebelum ini diisytiharkan
kumpulan pengganas.
Sekarang Washington memerlukan gabungan
negara-negara Sunni untuk melawan Negara Islam kerana "Amerika tidak boleh
sekali lagi pergi masuk ke negara Islam dan menjadi penyerang, ia perlu
diketuai oleh Sunni, untuk menyerang sebuah per-tubuhan Sunni [IS]," Biden
berkata, mengakui bahwa ia adalah utk pertama kalinya bahawa Amerika
Syarikat menggunakan strategi geopolitik.
"Walaupun kita mahu ia menjadi, ia tidak boleh
menjadi usaha kami sahaja," kata Biden. "Ini tidak boleh bertukar
menjadi perang Amerika Syarikat terhadap tanah lain negara Arab di Timur
Tengah."
"Tetapi apa yang saya lebih hairan adalah
amnesia jelas tentang apa yang Amerika & Britain tlh cuba utk menapai di
Syria hanya setahun lalu. Mereka tidak hanya meletakkan kakitangan perisikan
kakitangan di atas tanah, dan menyediakan sokongan logistik kepada pemberontak
di Syria; mereka menerajui kempen untuk cuba utk menggulingkan Assad,
"bekas ejen MI5 Annie Machon memberitahu ‘told’
RT.
Beliau menambah bahawa "Mungkin, Naib Presiden
akhirnya belajar beberapa pelajaran dari sejarah. Ia tidak kira yang anda fikir
rakan-rakan anda akan berada di rantau ini. Kerap kali mereka akan diambil alih
atau digolongkan ke dalam kum-pulan yang lebih radikal."
BIDEN Blames US Allies
in Middle EAST for RISE Of ISIS
US Vice-President Joe Biden has accused America’s
key allies in the Middle East of allowing the rise of the Islamic State (IS),
saying they supported extremists with money and weapons in their eagerness to
oust the Assad regime in Syria.
America’s “biggest problem” in Syria is its regional
allies, Biden told students at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute
of Politics at Harvard University on Thursday.
“Our allies in the region were our largest problem
in Syria,” he said, explaining that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were “so
determined to take down Assad,” that in a sense they started a “proxy
Sunni-Shia war” by pouring “hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of
thousands of tons of weapons” towards anyone who would fight against Assad.
“And we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them,” said
Biden, thus disassociating the US from unleashing the civil war in Syria.
“The outcome of such a policy now is more visible,” he said, as it turned
out they supplied extremists from Al-Nusra Front and Al-Qaeda.
All of a sudden the regional powers that sponsored
anti-Assad rebels awakened to the dawn of a major international security threat
in the face of ISIS – now called Islamic State. After being essentially thrown
out of Iraq it found open space and territory in eastern Syria and established
close ties with the Al-Nusra Front which the US had earlier declared a
terrorist group.
Now Washington needs a coalition of Sunni states to
fight the Islamic State because “America can't once again go in to Muslim
nation and be the aggressor, it has to be led by Sunnis, to attack a Sunni
organization [the IS],” Biden said, acknowledging that it is for the first time
that the US uses a geopolitical strategy.
“Even if we wanted it to be, it cannot be our fight
alone,” Biden said. “This cannot be turned into a US ground war against another
Arab nation in the Middle East.”
“But of what I’m more astonished is of his apparent
amnesia about what America and Britain were trying to ferment in Syria only a
year ago. They were not only putting staff intelligence personnel on the
ground, and providing logistical support to the rebels in Syria; they were
spearheading the campaign to try to oust Assad,” former MI5 agent Annie Machon told RT.
She added that “Perhaps, the Vice President is
finally learning some lessons from history. It does not matter who you think
your friends are going to be in the region. Very often they will be taken over
or subsumed into a more radical group.”
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