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Do you think it is right to seek US assistance to push for political change in Syria?
Members of the Syrian opposition who advocate U.S. help believe that Washington would offer it out of a geniune desire for democratic reform in the Arab world. Others worry that less attractive motives would drive U.S. offers to help. |
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| Ammar Abdulhamid | Tharwa Project |
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| I remember a line from a play called Ghourba by the late Syrian poet and playwright Muhammad al-Maghout, which was very popular back in the mid to late 70s, the line went as follows: ?Woe to the nation that wears of what it does not manufacture and eats of what it does not plant.? People always applauded here of course. After all, this was the quintessence of the socialist message that we were all asked to believe in now that the Baath was in cha...... |
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| Imad Moustapha | Syrian Ambassador, USA |
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| Next week, the likes of Farid Al-Ghadiri, Fouad Ajami, John Bolton, and Ileana Rose-Lhitnen would meet in the Capitol to discuss the future of Syria!
As the official representative of Syria, I am not supposed to sympathize with the Syrian opposition (those who sincerely and honorably want a change in the political scene in Syria). However, as a human being, I cannot prevent myself from pitying them for the devastating damage the likes of the abo...... |
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| The first American "assistance" for political change in Syria (actually the first in the whole region, way before Mossadegh's removal in 1953 Iran) dates back to 1949, when the first democratically-elected president of Syria, Shukri Al Quwatli, was overthrown by a CIA-backed military coup installing Husni Al Zaim. To the great misfortune of Syria and its people, that same military is still in power nearly six decades later, having been sidelined...... |
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| Sami Moubayed | SyrianHistory.com |
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| Fifty years ago, my mentor Dr Munir al-Ajlani was arrested in Damascus, along with some of Syria?s finest politicians, because he had tried to launch a coup d?etat in Syria with the help of a foreign power. That foreign power was Iraq, allied back then to the United States and Great Britain. After all, allying to a foreign power for regime change was what everybody was what everybody was doing in Syria since the start of coup d?etats in 1949. It ...... |
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AMMAR ABDULHAMID
AYMAN ABDEL NOUR
GHAYTH ARMANAZI
IBRAHIM HAMIDI
IMAD MOUSTAPHA
JOSHUA LANDIS
MURHAF JOUEJATI
PATRICK SEALE
RIME ALLAF
SAMI MOUBAYED
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