Citat:
Nykonservativ ideolog: Vi måste acceptera att vi förlorade Syrien
Den nykonservative ideologen och gamle PNAC:aren Charles Krauthammer, som senast varnade om vilken katastrof det skulle bli om Trump vann valet, skriver nu om kriget i Syrien i Washington Post:
Aleppo and American decline
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/aleppo-and-american-decline/2016/12/22/1c025a5a-c877-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html
Krauthammer inleder med att klaga på Obama, som "ingenting gjort" under sina år vid makten:
The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the devastated city showed the true cost of Obama’s abdication. For which he seems to have few regrets, however. In his end-of-year news conference, Obama defended U.S. inaction with his familiar false choice: It was either stand aside or order a massive Iraq-style ground invasion.
Om Krauthammer fått bestämma så hade USA bombat Syrien redan för flera år sedan:
The U.S. could easily have destroyed the regime’s planes and helicopters on the ground and so cratered its airfields as to make them unusable. That would have altered the strategic equation for the rest of the war.
Nu kommer Assad att sitta kvar, vilket gynnar Ryssland och Iran, konstaterar Krauthammer:
Assad was never a friend. But today he’s not even a free agent. He’s been effectively restored to his throne, but as the puppet of Iran and Russia. Syria is now a platform, a forward base, from which both these revisionist regimes can project power in the region.
Iran will use Syria to advance its drive to dominate the Arab Middle East. Russia will use its naval and air bases to bully the Sunni Arab states, and to shut out American influence.
Sedan kommer dock Krauthammer med ett överraskande råd till Trump. Denne har ju talat om att upprätta någon slags skyddade zoner för islamisterna i norra Syrien. Alltså det som Turkiet och den nykonservativa lobbyn i USA hela tiden velat ha. Men nu är det för sent säger Krauthammer. Det skulle bli dyrt, farligt och i värsta fall provocera fram ett krig med Ryssland:
With Aleppo gone and the rebels scattered, we have a long road ahead to rebuild the influence squandered over the past eight years. President-elect Donald Trump is talking about creating safe zones. He should tread carefully. It does no good to try to do now what we should have done five years ago. Conditions are much worse. Russia and Iran rule. Maintaining the safety of safe zones will be expensive and dangerous. It will require extensive ground deployments, and it risks military confrontation with Russia.
Nej, det är klokare att acceptera förlusten och gå vidare till andra konflikter, avslutar Krauthammer:
For us, there is no post-facto option. If we are to regain the honor lost in Aleppo, it will have to be on a very different battlefield.
Den nykonservative ideologen och gamle PNAC:aren Charles Krauthammer, som senast varnade om vilken katastrof det skulle bli om Trump vann valet, skriver nu om kriget i Syrien i Washington Post:
Aleppo and American decline
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/aleppo-and-american-decline/2016/12/22/1c025a5a-c877-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html
Krauthammer inleder med att klaga på Obama, som "ingenting gjort" under sina år vid makten:
The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the devastated city showed the true cost of Obama’s abdication. For which he seems to have few regrets, however. In his end-of-year news conference, Obama defended U.S. inaction with his familiar false choice: It was either stand aside or order a massive Iraq-style ground invasion.
Om Krauthammer fått bestämma så hade USA bombat Syrien redan för flera år sedan:
The U.S. could easily have destroyed the regime’s planes and helicopters on the ground and so cratered its airfields as to make them unusable. That would have altered the strategic equation for the rest of the war.
Nu kommer Assad att sitta kvar, vilket gynnar Ryssland och Iran, konstaterar Krauthammer:
Assad was never a friend. But today he’s not even a free agent. He’s been effectively restored to his throne, but as the puppet of Iran and Russia. Syria is now a platform, a forward base, from which both these revisionist regimes can project power in the region.
Iran will use Syria to advance its drive to dominate the Arab Middle East. Russia will use its naval and air bases to bully the Sunni Arab states, and to shut out American influence.
Sedan kommer dock Krauthammer med ett överraskande råd till Trump. Denne har ju talat om att upprätta någon slags skyddade zoner för islamisterna i norra Syrien. Alltså det som Turkiet och den nykonservativa lobbyn i USA hela tiden velat ha. Men nu är det för sent säger Krauthammer. Det skulle bli dyrt, farligt och i värsta fall provocera fram ett krig med Ryssland:
With Aleppo gone and the rebels scattered, we have a long road ahead to rebuild the influence squandered over the past eight years. President-elect Donald Trump is talking about creating safe zones. He should tread carefully. It does no good to try to do now what we should have done five years ago. Conditions are much worse. Russia and Iran rule. Maintaining the safety of safe zones will be expensive and dangerous. It will require extensive ground deployments, and it risks military confrontation with Russia.
Nej, det är klokare att acceptera förlusten och gå vidare till andra konflikter, avslutar Krauthammer:
For us, there is no post-facto option. If we are to regain the honor lost in Aleppo, it will have to be on a very different battlefield.
Otroligt ändå på något sätt att dessa människor är helt öppna med vad dom håller på med och vad konflikten handlar om. Ingen skam.