In an official statement on the State Department's own website designating Al Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra a foreign terrorist organization, it was admitted:
Since November 2011, al-Nusrah Front has claimed nearly 600 attacks ranging from more than 40 suicide attacks to small arms and improvised explosive device operations in major city centers including Damascus, Aleppo, Hamah, Dara, Homs, Idlib, and Dayr al-Zawr. During these attacks numerous innocent Syrians have been killed.
If the US and its allies were providing billions of dollars worth of weapons and equipment to "moderate rebels," who provided al-Nusra with even more weapons and equipment enabling it to dominate the battlefield?
The US as it has done in virtually all other wars of aggression abroad simply lied about the nature of those it was arming having from the beginning and just as journalists like Seymour Hersh warned deliberately armed and aided extremists to wage a proxy war of regime change against Syria.
Arsonists, Not Firefighters
Nothing the US has done in regards to Syria has amounted to genuine efforts to end the conflict. Throughout the conflict the US continued to adjust its war propaganda to justify first its invasion and occupation of eastern Syria to "fight ISIS" then to incrementally move toward justifying a direct US military intervention against the Syrian government itself with troops "serendipitously" already staged inside Syrian territory.
From 2015 onward in the wake of Russia's intervention direct US military intervention was taken off the table and the US occupation confined to eastern Syria where its unsustainable narrative regarding a Syrian "Kurdistan" withered.
Today we find a US still attempting to justify its illegal and indefensible occupation of Syrian territory. Syria and its allies have attempted to provide Washington with a host of face-saving opportunities to withdraw and allow the conflict to finally end returning peace and stability to the nation of Syria and its people.
The US continues to pose as part of a "solution" to the very Syrian crisis journalists like Seymour Hersh as early as 2007 revealed the US had deliberately engineered.
Just as an unrepentant arsonist would not be involved in efforts to extinguish the fire they started the US cannot be involved in efforts to resolve a conflict it itself started nor is the US at this point demonstrating any genuine desire to end the conflict.
Squatting on Syrian oilfields is yet another intentional tactic being used to draw the Syrian war out even longer impeding the Syrian state's access to its own resources needed to fuel the country and fund reconstruction.
Far from firefighters, the US is an unrepentant arsonist blocking firefighters from doing their job. US foreign policy has become so overtly malign that the Western media is unable to even address basic questions such as "why" the US is remaining in Syria and doing so amid Syria's oilfields.
Just as has been the case throughout the Syrian war, US machinations will be defeated by Syria and its allies patiently creating conditions on the ground in which current US policies are no longer tenable forcing Washington to fall back further still.
In the meantime, continued efforts to expose the truth of this war's genesis and to prevent those who were responsible for it from attempting to prolong it further by posing as "peacemakers" and "protectors" is essential. If the US wants to pose as "peacemakers" and "protectors," Syria and its allies may allow them to do so only to save face amid their total and otherwise unconditional departure from Syria.
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