Brookings Announces Next Move in Syria: WarAfter admitting UN peace plan was a ploy, Brookings predictably scraps it and begins promoting expanded military conflict. By the US policy think-tank Brookings Institutions own admission, the Kofi Annan six-point peace plan in Syria was merely a ploy to buy time to reorganize NATOs ineffective terrorist proxies and provide them the pretext necessary for establishing NATO protected safe havens from which to carry out their terrorism. In fact, Brookings actually stated in a recent report, Assessing Options for Regime Change (emphasis added): An alternative is for diplomatic efforts to focus first on how to end the violence and how to gain humanitarian access, as is being done under Annans leadership. This may lead to the creation of safe-havens and humanitarian corridors, which would have to be backed by limited military power. This would, of course, fall short of U.S. goals for Syria and could preserve Asad in power. From that starting point, however, it is possible that a broad coalition with the appropriate international mandate could add further coercive action to its efforts. page 4, Assessing Options for Regime Change, Brookings Institution. As if to alleviate any lingering doubts, NATOs Alliance News Blog has confirmed that the US is committed not to peace, but rather to the overthrow of Syrias government and is already committed to helping [President Bashar al-Assad] fall, but is merely looking for the least violent, lowest cost way to get there. Image: NATOs official Alliance News Blog proudly reports that the US is already committed to helping Assad fall and is simply using the lull in fighting brought on by Kofi Annans disingenuous peace plan to rearm, reorganize, and redeploy their terrorist proxy forces against Assad. The op-ed featured on NATOs blog was featured in the LA Times and written by CFR member Doyle McManus. (click image to enlarge) And now, the Brookings Institution itself has predictably declared the Annan peace deal a failure and states that the time to stretch Syrias military to the breaking point through expanded foreign-backed unrest has come. In an article titled, Annans Mission Impossible: Why is everyone pretending that the U.N. plan in Syria has a prayer of suceeding? Brookings Doha Center director Salman Shaikh insults the intelligence of his readership while handing out useful talking points surely to be parroted by the corporate-media over the next few days and weeks. Shaikh depicts the ceasefires failure as solely the result of the Syrian governments belligerence and brutality, while mentioning nothing of the Syrian oppositions documented and even admitted atrocities. And while portraying the Syrian government as irrationally carrying out a campaign of brutality against the Syrian people, Shaikh admits that the Free Syrian Army is operating militarily out of Turkey and that the Syrian National Council (SNC) represents foreign harbored and influenced leadership. While Shaikh portrays Syrias minorities as on the sideline, he declines from explaining why they have not joined the foreign-driven unrest. In reality, these groups have been the hardest hit by rebel atrocities, including Syrias large Christian communities. Image: Christians in Syria have been particularly hit hard by what is being described as ethnic cleansing, not by Syrian security forces, but by NATO-backed death squads under the banner of the Free Syrian Army. The LA Times has been quietly reporting on the tragedy of Syrias minorities at the hands of the Syrian rebels for months and indicates that wider genocide will take place, just as it is now in Libya, should Syrias government collapse under foreign pressure. Shaikhs shoddy salesmanship also reveals another truth when he claims that opposition leaders inside and outside the country do not have the resources to unite their ranks alone. Surely any opposition group that represented the vast majority of the Syrian people, as the UN and the corporate-media claim daily, would not have trouble finding the resources inside of Syria alone. In reality, the unrest in Syria is driven by a foreign-backed violent minority, carried out by a combination of violent Sunni-extremists from Syria and many foreign fighters brought in from abroad. Many of Syrias real opposition find the Free Syrian Armys collaboration with foreigners unacceptable. NATO and its proxies efforts have failed primarily because the movements semi-covert foreign backing is still not enough to turn the tide, and more overt backing is needed, including foreign military intervention. Shaikhs entire argument hinges on the creation of a genuine grand opposition coalition that currently, admittedly, does not exist. As the Brookings Institution prepares the next stage of its premeditated escalation against the sovereign nation-state of Syria, and continues framing the violence as one-sided, a torrent of reports even from the corporate media itself confirms what many geopolitical analysts have been saying for over a year that the Free Syrian Army is conducting a vicious campaign of terrorism leaving Syrian security forces no choice but to continue fighting on to restore order. In fact, just today, Wednesday May 9, 2012, Syrian rebels attempted to attack a convoy consisting of Kofi Annans UN monitors. France inexplicably then blamed the Syrian government for not providing adequate security for the UN monitors, after a year of condemning the government for attempting to restore order in the face of the very growing militant violence the attacks resulted from. And in recent weeks, everything from Human Rights Watch reports, to open admissions from the rebels themselves confirm that they are committing widespread human rights abuses and turning toward indiscriminate bombing tactics. This indicates a threat Syrias government would be remiss not to counter and surely a threat the international community would be remiss to continue supporting, funding, and even arming. Now a concerted effort will be made to sabotage the UN peace plan in every shape, form, and manner, especially through increased violence and particularly in cross-border incidents to help sell NATO-backed, Turkey-led incursions into Syria to carve out safe havens. From there a steady stream of weapons and fighters from around the world will be funneled in, in an attempt to, as Brookings Shaikh puts it, stretch Syrias forces to a breaking point. Image: The cover of the CFRs flattering report on US-Turkey relations, full of empty promises to entice Turkish leaders into falling on their swords for Western ambitions across the Middle East. And of course, the report is written in the context of what Turkey can do for the US in terms of Syria and Iran in particular. Pro-genocide Madeleine Albright chaired the task force that produced the report. To help convince Turkey to take the plunge for NATO, the Council on Foreign Relations has recently published a report attempting to flesh out an improved alliance between the US and Turkey claiming the new relationship would trump the potential for US cooperation with any BRICS nation (except perhaps India). This patronizing political stunt attempts to fill Turkish leaders with delusions of grandeur, tempting them with goodies ahead of falling on their swords for Wall Street and Londons ambitions in Syria and Iran. Turkish leaders might reassess such grandiose claims and remember BRICS growth and benefits are based on solidarity and production, avoiding alliances with Wall Street, London, and their institutions, while conversely, Wall Street and Londons benefits are based on domination, exploitation, betrayal, and unsustainable pyramid schemes. Syrias fate rests on both Syria and its allies ability to produce a tactical reality on the ground that would make any foreign military incursion a disaster. It also depends on either Turkeys wisdom or foolishness in considering the elementary ploy and poisoned goodies the West is dangling in front of it in exchange for complicity in dividing and destroying neighboring Syria. The corporate-financiers centered around the capitals of the West have committed to a global war aimed at permanently destroying nation-states and replacing them with a homogeneous administrative system built out of Wall Street and London-funded NGOs, interlocking with the Wests contrived international institutions. It is in essence, a World War, currently being fought with 4th generation warfare to build a neo-imperial global government. With overt efforts to destabilize nations around the world, including Russia and China, the Wests hand is revealed and there is no turning back. The only hope of stopping disaster if either the corporate-financiers succeed or fail (thus turning in and feeding on itself), is to recognize their source of power, and begin undermining it on a daily basis through both boycotting their goods and services, while simultaneously replacing their corporations and institutions with local, genuine alternatives. Syria may seem like an isolated conflict, but is in reality linked to us directly, regardless of where we live. Either we live in a nation that will be next, or a nation who will be further crushed under the hubris, power, and arrogance of an empowered Wall Street and London elite. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 