The encirclement
of Syria and Lebanon has long been in the works. Since 2001, Washington and NATO
have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria. The permanent NATO
presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Syrian Accountability Act are part
of this initiative. It appears that this roadmap is based on a 1996 Israeli
document aimed at controlling Syria. The document’s name is A Clean
Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.
The 1996 Israeli
document, which included prominent U.S. policy figures as authors, calls for
“rolling back Syria” in 2000 or afterward. The roadmap outlines pushing the
Syrians out of Lebanon, diverting the attention of Damascus by using an
anti-Syrian opposition in Lebanon, and then destabilizing Syria with the help of
both Jordan and Turkey. This has all respectively occurred from 2005 to 2011.
This is also why the anti-Syrian March 14 Alliance and the Special Tribunal for
Lebanon (STL) were created in Lebanon.
As a first step
towards all this the 1996 document even calls for the removal of President
Saddam Hussein from power in Baghdad and even alludes to the balkanization of
Iraq and forging a strategic regional alliance against Damascus that includes a
Sunni Muslim Arab “Central Iraq.” The sectarian nature of this project is very
obvious as are its ties to opposing a so-called “Shiite Crescent.” The roadmap
seeks to foment sectarian divisions as a means of conquering Syria and creating
a Shiite-Sunni rift that will oppose Iran and keep the Arab monarchs in
power...