The U.S. in Syria: Imperialism -- Not Humanitarianism

The reactionary, imperialist agenda underlying U.S. rhetoric of "humanitarian intervention" in Syria must be vigorously exposed and opposed.

 

Leave aside for the moment what 60-plus years of U.S. control has brought the Middle East--a cavalcade of horrors from intervention and war, to ethnic cleansing, to torture and tyranny. Stop and think about Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. All had repressive regimes, and the U.S. justified military action as a moral effort to help their peoples. But then U.S. wars made things exponentially worse by inflicting catastrophic levels of death and destruction and imposing new forms of oppression--including equally brutal, oppressive regimes. Why? Because what the U.S. brings to the world is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures that support capitalism-imperialism. Why would Syria--or a U.S. war on Iran--be any different?

 

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Larry Everest is a correspondent for Revolution newspaper (revcom.us), where this article first appeared, and author of Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda (Common Courage, 2004).   He can be reached via http://www.larryeverest.org

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