The Neoconservative Hit List: Iraq, Libya and now Syria? A Plan for Global US Military Supremacy
1997
witnessed the birth of one of the most pivotal American think tanks in
modern times, whose ideas and objectives would come to shape the foreign
policy of the United States (U.S.) for decades to come. The Project for
a New American Century (PNAC) was founded by William Kristol, the chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bush senior administration, and
Robert Kagan, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute and a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The PNAC group’s stated
objectives included the desire to “shape a new century favourable to American principles and interests” along with challenging “regimes hostile to U.S. interest and values”.
Prominent individuals who belonged to
the think tank include some of the most influential politicians in
America’s recent history, including the former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld, the Vice President of the U.S. during the George W.
Bush administration, Dick Cheney, the ex President of the World Bank and
former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard
Perle, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs
under Ronald Regan. In September 2000, the PNAC group released a
document titled: ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses – Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century’,
in which the group discusses the need for the U.S. to assert its
military authority around the globe to secure its strategic objectives:
“Preserving the desirable strategic
situation in which the United States now finds itself requires a
globally preeminent military capability both today and in the future (p.8).”
Premeditated Wars
The
report then continues to advocate an increase in military spending to
enable this “military capability” as well as asserting one year before
9/11 that all this would be unlikely to manifest unless there was a “new
Pearl Harbour” event (p.63).
In addition, the document lists a number of regimes that the group
viewed as “deeply hostile to America”. “North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Libya
and Syria” (p.63 & p.64)
are all pinpointed as enemies of the U.S. well before the illegal war
in Iraq in 2003, as well as the illegal 2011 war in Libya and the
ongoing proxy war in Syria.
Further
evidence was revealed in 2007 that supports the thesis that wars are
premeditated by the Anglo-American elite for years prior to them being
launched. This was when retired four star general and former NATO
commander, Wesley Clark, disclosed a plan circulating around the
Pentagon in 2001 to attack 7 countries in 5 years.
The countries named mirror the ones targeted by the PNAC group, as
Iraq, Syria, Iran and Libya were all listed in addition to Lebanon,
Somalia and Sudan.
The
reality is that all the wars of the past and the future are planned
well in advance of the public ever hearing our morally repugnant
politicians demanding action. Countries that resist being absorbed into
the Anglo-American-European international order and allow multinational
corporations to exploit their resources, are targeting for regime change
well in advance of the pretext they give to intervene.
Israel is also set to benefit if the
government of al-Assad is replaced with a client state of the West. A
study group led by neocon Richard Perle prepared a policy document in
1996 for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, titled: ‘A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm’,
in which it outlines the strategic importance of removing Saddam
Hussein from power in Iraq as well as the desire to weaken the regime in
Syria:
“Israel can shape its strategic
environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening,
containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on
removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli
strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s
regional ambitions.”
Russian FM: Airstrikes on Islamic State could be used to Weaken Assad
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov warned the world last month that the US-led airstrikes
against Islamic State (IS) in Syria could also target Syrian government
forces in an attempt to “weaken the positions of Bashar al-Assad’s army”.
U.S. envoy to the United Nations, Samantha Power, recently reiterated
that Washington’s objective in Syria is the removal of al-Assad from
power in Damascus and that the “moderate Syrian opposition provides the best alternative to the al-Assad regime”.
What Power omits from her statement though is that IS is a key part of
the “Syrian opposition” and has been battling the Syrian government –
with the financing and support of the west – for years now. The reality
is that the al-Assad regime will remain in power for decades to come
unless the Western elite is able to justify military strikes against key
military and energy targets inside Syria.
A History of Turkish False Flag Attacks on Syria
An article by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh in April of this year titled: ‘The Rat Line and the Red Line’,
argues that the gas attack last year in Ghouta was an attack carried
out by the Syrian rebels with the planning of Turkish authorities as
opposed to the Syrian government. In the article Hersh quotes a former
intelligence official as stating: ‘We now know it was a covert action planned by Erdoğan’s people to push Obama over the red line’.
As soon as the gas attack hit the mainstream press in the West, the
calls for war went into overdrive. War was only averted due to massive
public opposition to the move which forced the British parliament to
vote against intervention in Syria, as well as the Russian government
brokering a deal to place the Syrian government’s chemical weapons
supplies under international control.
The
notion that Turkey is capable of planning such a malevolent attack was
strengthened when officials from the top echelons of the Turkish
government were caught red handed discussing a false flag attack on
their own territory, in order to justify a war with Syria earlier this
year. The officials are heard discussing the possibility that they could
arrange an attack on the tomb of the grandfather of the founder of the
Ottoman Empire, Suleiman Shah, which is situated in a Turkish enclave in
the Syrian city of Aleppo. Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkish
intelligence is heard saying in the leaked audio tape: “We can also prepare an attack on Suleiman Shah’s tomb if necessary”, Fidan continues, “Listen,
listen commander if it’s a pretext we’ll give you one. I’ll send over
four men and have them fire right rockets on an empty lot. That’s not
the problem, pretexts can be arranged.”
Steven MacMillan is an independent writer, researcher, geopolitical analyst and editor of The Analyst Report, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2014/10/09/the-neoconservative-hit-list-iraq-libya-and-now-syria-a-plan-for-global-u-s-military-supremacy/
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2014/10/09/the-neoconservative-hit-list-iraq-libya-and-now-syria-a-plan-for-global-u-s-military-supremacy/
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