The White House is working overtime to generate as much support as possible for an overt attack on Syria. Everyone is doing his part, and Secretary of State John Kerry is aiming high: in front of the cameras, by means of his now famous speech, and behind the scenes, by comparing Assad
to Hitler and warning the world not to make the same mistake that it
did in 1938. Russia is eyeing the situation with astonishment. 'To us,
it looks as though [George W.] Bush, [Dick] Cheney and [Donald] Rumsfeld
never left the White House,' says Alexei
Pushkov, head of the foreign affairs committee of the Russian
parliament. 'I am at a complete loss to understand what the US thinks it
is doing.'
On the surface it’s straightforward: the U.S. wants to liberate
Syria from a brutal dictator who is attacking his own people with poison
gas. But beneath the surface there is something very different going
on. For it is there that the story about chemical weapons turns out to
be different than first thought, and with other arguments appearing to
play a leading role in the battle for Syria. The main prize at stake in
this battle: Iran. Earlier, once the parties involved proved unable to
claim this prize, it became obvious to them that the road to Tehran runs
through Damascus.
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