Why the United States will Not Solve Syria - Damascus is a Lost Cause

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Feb 27, 2012 at 14:10

If there was consistency, how is it we have not continued the trend and try toppling Iran's theocratic styled revolution? Is it because we could not stop them during the fall of the shah?

What we are seeing here is a situation that will used to determine the fate of the Golan, amongst other things, as Israel cannot be pleased with any outcome of the Syrian regime. Why is the Golan important? One might suppose the empty Syrian gun emplacements might give a clue; what with the view of Megiddo I am told. Damascus could not win then - they cannot win now.

So it goes, that as Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey etc., etc., all returning to their Islamic influences in a way only Muslims entrenched in their fundamentalist Islamic ideology can understand, we will continue to see the shift in that direction in the Middle East as the western powers who have not yet understood either sit by and watch it happen in spite of the apathetic attempts to curtail it; while powers sympathetic to the Islamic cause (need we cite any beyond that of the American Administrative Chief?) seem to be in stride with what is going on.

It is not national interests that are at play – and that is why it is not all about 'Palestine;' but Israel.

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