So I have two questions considering these documents you mention: why the USA would have been interested in destabilizing Syria in 1986, and is it a solid plan or is it like the CIA plan on how to invade Canada? I see the plan was to dethrone president Assad based on some no doubt unfounded concerns that he was never going to allow anyone else to be elected after 1986. Oh, look. He didn't let anyone else. Oh and look Syria continued to support terrorism just as predicted. Man, that is us destabilizing Syria is it? Its not any sort of self defense against his agitations? We should have ignored him? Maybe so, or maybe we shouldn't have failed.
Yeah, must have been drunk or something
from the CIA's own website:
SYRIA: SCENARIOS OF DRAMATIC POLITICAL CHANGE
New Declassified CIA Memo Presents Blueprint for Syrian Regime Collapse | The Libertarian Institute
Funny thing though is it's nothing new
Whatabout? Let's deal with the U.S. first
I am concerned about the psychopathic policies the U.S. has been employing for years which has led us down the road to where we are today because I live here, it's not changing anytime soon. Let's look at all the regime changes and dictators the U.S. has supported over the decades that were eventually paid for with American blood and money. How many civilians have been tortured and killed over the years in far flung countries because of policies the U.S. has pushed or dictators we have helped install? How many conflicts have been started because of our policies? Do we even care about them or is it just the fact that we don't have to see it up close and personal that makes it all O.K.?
Israel, the country, has doubts about itself. This surprises many, because we grow up believing in our countries. In a conversation about Israel this discussion is very relevant. Israel is named after a roving, homeless group of people. Its famous ancestor is Abraham, a man who leaves the cities to live in tents as an outcast. Its ironic that it is defended by jet planes and has stationary borders. Its ironic because it claims to be a Jewish homeland, and their philosophy teaches that countries defended by weapons are doomed by those weapons. (I am not a professor of Jewish philosophy, but you can easily check what I am saying.)
Funny thing though is it's nothing new
The USA has existed for over 200 years, and therefore it has done evil. It is a country, and it must have done evil. As a believer in my country I am shocked about this. The countries make excuses for outrageous behavior (such as interfering with the succession of a monarch like Assad). They engage in espionage and interfere with each other. They go to war. The cycle starts over. This is written in the biblical canon as well as History. A country's own weapons seal its doom. According to this the USA will be nuked, someday, guaranteed; because we have nukes. (Notice Israel has never admitted to having any.) If any country has them then by some superstitions so will it be nuked, someday.
It remains to be seen if things will play out so terribly, but I am just pointing out one of the factors in this situation is that Israel has trouble believing in itself just as strongly as Americans have trouble believing that America is merely another country. We are opposite of Israel in this respect, and you must understand this to understand the Syria situation. Israel's politicians must strive to make a case that it should exist. Therefore its enemies strive to make the opposite case and argue continually against it. Syria and its allies do this, too.
I am concerned about the psychopathic policies the U.S. has been employing for years
Enter the US. We claim and believe that we can protect other countries. We also say we believe in world peace. We also have a huge swathe of people who believe a messiah will come out of the physical country of Israel. That messiah it is believed shall save the world and create world peace. Now things are really confusing. Israel doesn't believe in our messiah, however somehow our most important export to Israel is that we believe in it. Its a little surprising since Israelis aren't typically Christians and don't believe in the Christian messiah. More important than weapons or talk is this belief. Countries thrive on belief. They exist in it like it was a substrate. Somehow our belief in Israel helps it to believe in itself.
Syria says it believes Israel ought to be wiped out though; so that there can be world peace! Therefore in the interest of world peace, Syria continues lobbing bombs into Israel's territory as do its allies from other vectors around Israeli territory. (Can fiction even compete with this situation?) Israel, Syria's southern neighbor, becomes to the USA like a divinely peaceful snowball in a hellscape of man's making (or Satan's making to many people). Some believe the conflict between Israel and its neighbors is divine, not the mere struggling of countries which has gone on for thousands of years. I think its sadly very entertaining. It may be difficult for future generations to believe that any of this happened as recorded.
