US-led militants will never bring democracy to Syria: Lajos Szaszdi
Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:32PM GMT
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Interview with Lajos Szaszdi
Those people and groups among the opposition that pursue a more radical politics are the ones that are the strongest among the members of the armed rebellion and they certainly may prevail.
If they win, you will see the forces of (the so-called) Islamic government, they won’t introduce liberal democracy, they won’t introduce freedom of the oppressed and eventually they will introduce and impose their own form of politics and their own model of society."
An analyst says the US siding with terrorist rebel groups prevents a UNSC resolution on Syria and guarantees that if the rebels win, there will be no democracy.
In the background of more than two dozen people have been killed in an explosion in Syria’s central province of Hama and foreign-backed insurgents are also targeting the capital city of Damascus. The terror unleashed on Syria by the United States and allied forces including some Gulf countries has gripped Syria for 22 months now. Syrian government forces remain strong in defense of their sovereignty though thousands of civilians and security forces have lost their lives during the aggression.
Press TV has interviewed Mr. Lajos Szaszdi political commentator in Virginia about this issue. The following is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Taking a look at how Damascus specifically has been the target of such bombings in the past as well. The UN Security Council last week failed to condemn these terrorist attacks. Why do you think that is so?
Szaszdi: Well, because members of the United Nations Security Council and the permanent members of the United States, United Kingdom and France are very much showing support of the rebellion inside of Syria.
And as you know as well, Russia and China are backing the government in Damascus - the Syrian government; and they are opposed to what they consider to be intervention by aiding foreign powers rebels now against the government in Damascus.
So, the fact that there is this polarization inside the Security Council with Western powers backing the rebels while the Eurasian powers and permanent members are supporting the government of Syria, it is no surprise the Security Council would not have approved a resolution, a decision condemning these terrorist acts because that would have meant for these Western powers supporting the rebels, siding with the government of Syria.
And that’s what they don’t want. They want the power of the government of Syria that’s why they are supporting the rebels in the first place.
Press TV: These recent bomb attacks show the nature of the violence in Syria where the citizens and civilians so to speak are the ones that are paying the ultimate price with their lives, with blood as well as their properties.
Taking a look at the way things have panned out is it safe to say that the democracy that these insurgents were supposed to be fighting for has been completely lost?
Szaszdi: Well, I don’t think that democracy was in their minds in the first place.
I cannot deny that they are members of the Syrian opposition especially those living next door in the West and certainly people inside Syria, but they would have liked to have a sort of political democracy in the country and having free elections.
We know that there are people there that think the same in Egypt, they are kind of Western leaning, but we signed to have elections. Those who support a more radical or traditional ways of thinking, they were the ones that prevailed.
In the case of Syria it is most certain that there would have been free elections. Among the opposition those who would pursue more radical political solutions, or not solutions but let’s say way of life, a more radical traditional way of life vis e vis the Western way of life, a liberal democratic model, those are the ones that would have prevailed.
And now those people and groups among the opposition that pursue a more radical politics are the ones that are the strongest among the members of the armed rebellion and they certainly may prevail.
If they win, you will see the forces of (the so-called) Islamic government, they won’t introduce liberal democracy, they won’t introduce freedom of the oppressed and eventually they will introduce and impose their own form of politics and their own model of society.
So, in that regard if there was a hope for liberal democracy that is certainly going to be dashed and erased if the forces that are now strong among the armed rebellion especially the al-Nusra Front, which by the way has been classified by the United States as a terrorist group and has links with al-Qaeda - If these people win then certainly it is never going to be democracy in Syria. That’s for sure.
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