US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has made normalization and the dropping of economic sanctions conditional on regime change in Syria.
Enough is enough.
The US has literally spent a decade literally funding al Qaeda (Jabhat al-Nusra, etc.) in an attempt to change the regime in Syria, and the only result has been more war and more misery for the average Syrian.
The fact that Bashar al-Assad is the least bad option for Syria is a tragedy, but this is a direct consequence of the US, Turkey, and the Petty Princes of the Persian Gulf choosing the worst possible proxies in their attempt at remaking the Levant in its own image.
It is worse than a crime, it is a mistake:
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed US opposition Wednesday to normalization with Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has seen growing acceptance from Arab nations that have concluded he won the brutal civil war.
Meeting with his Israeli and UAE counterparts, Blinken said that US President Joe Biden’s administration’s policy on Syria was largely focused on humanitarian relief.
“What we have not done, and what we do not intend to do, is to express any support for efforts to normalize relations or rehabilitate Mr. Assad,” Blinken told a joint news conference, not referring to Assad as president.
The United States has not “lifted a single sanction on Syria or changed our position to oppose the reconstruction of Syria until there is irreversible progress toward a political solution, which we believe is necessary and vital,” Blinken said.
A US law known as the Caesar Act came into force last year that punishes any companies that work with Assad as he seeks to rebuild after a decade of war.
The Caesar Act, accompanied by a slew of US sanctions on Syrians close to Assad, aims to force accountability for human rights abuses and to encourage a political solution in Syria.
I've heard this song many times, and it always ends the same way, instability and pain for the country that the US purports to "Help."
It needs to stop.
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