The Foundling Opposition
The ongoing hectic efforts by the backers and supporters of the armed terrorist groups in Syria prove but the failure of these outsiders in inflicting the aimed-for damage on the Syrians. The Doha Conference as to regroup the fragments of the opposition came as a face-saving bid by the said backers and supporters, and in tandem with the mounting of terrorist groups’ escalation of massacres, sabotage, explosions and destruction operations inside Syria. It is not a coincidence; and almost an established norm to have increase in terrorist acts, once a Syria-related event to convene!
The Qatari Capital, Doha,- its gas-money to be precise- has become the destination for the extremist, salafist, and wahabi figures, and in the vicinity of the largest US Al Udeid Air Base! One can’t but to wonder about the presence of such diametrically different entities there, or is it as the famous Lebanese Singer Fairouz sings ”we and the moon are neighbors!” and to what extent such neighbors could survive and co-exist! When it comes to Syria, these entities and US bases can not only be neighbors, but live in the same house too! The US support to Doha meeting is indeed a farce! All of the efforts exerted since the begging of the crisis in Syria have been but an abject failure. The Istanbul Council is now being under US fire, as Secretary Clinton clearly stated in Zagreb few days ago. Actually Clinton herself, less than a year ago, hailed the said Council as ” “leading and legitimate representative of Syrians”; so what happened! Simply the Council was a failing foreign invention, grouping outsiders, who have passed almost all of their life outside Syria.
They have been groomed, educated, brainwashed and prepared for opposition roles, or as pressure cards, as future events, as I predict would reveal. The Council members have almost passed all of their times in five-star hotels, empty meetings and stupid calls for foreign intervention in the Syrian interior affairs. Can a true Syrian accept those who have been calling for the destruction of Syria to represent him/her? I don’t think so. Syria is but for the Syrians; in no way should a Qatari-backed opposition, Saudi-backed, US-backed, and all of the oppositions to Syria, represent the true Syrians, who in millions have been taking the streets in support of their country, stability, reforms, and above all their elected leadership. So, as Istanbul Council ended in abject failure, whatever other forms of opposition would face the same abject failures.
Dr. M.A. Al-Ibrahim