28 September 2018|The Canary|Mohamed Elmaazi
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Leaked US documents have revealed Washington’s vision of regime change in Syria. And it’s not pretty. Planners never thought democratic opponents to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad stood a chance, according to a 2011 US military intelligence assessment. The US Marine Corps’ (USMC) Intelligence Department and private intelligence firm Stratfor jointly produced this August 2011 assessment. Journalist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed discovered this document among a trove of leaked emails published by WikiLeaks.
You can see his full report at Le Monde Diplomatique.
Ahmed says the planning document:
“saw regime change as desirable in theory, but unattainable in practice, warning that Syria would experience ‘a violent, protracted civil conflict, one that will enflame sectarian unrest… The potential for the regime to collapse cannot be ruled out, but the road to regime change will be a long and bloody one.’ “
We don’t know what US government officials like Barack Obama, John Kerry or Hillary Clinton believed as they supported intervention in Syria. But this document shows what US military planners were probably telling them from 2011 onwards, and perhaps even earlier.
Read the full article here: https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2018/09/28/leaked-us-documents-reveal-a-warped-vision-of-regime-change-in-syria-2/