Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Arab League plan for Syria

The situation has officially become crazy.  GCC plans for change in Arab countries guarantee that popular demands of the opposition are not met.  How could Haytham Al-Manna` who I respect support such a plan when it basically preserves the regime and merely removes Bashshar?  The Ba`thist regime would basically stay in power.  GCC countries and those powers behind them just want to bring in a more dependable potentate.  GCC AND US aborted the Yemen uprising--which was one of the most courageous and daring movement in the region.  Let us hear people say it again: they want the overthrow of the regime, and not some half measures or some games that people with foreign agendas want to play at the expense of people's aspirations.  Remember that US plan for Iraq was originally for one of Saddam's colleagues to take over power.  They prefer in all cases to keep the regimes in power.  But for any Syrian opposition group to agree to such a plan is merely another proof that they can't claim to represent the Syrian people: they are no more than tools of GCC.