Sellouts, imperialist agents in Mideast

A commentator tells Press TV that imperialism uses sellouts to implement its agenda in the Middle East region.

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the United Stated is dispatching 200 troops to Jordan for military operations along the Syrian border. On Wednesday, Hagel told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington that the deployment would include specialists in intelligence, logistics and operations. The troops will come from the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, Texas, to replace a similar number of US forces already in Jordan.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Sukant Chandan, political analyst and filmmaker from London, to further discuss the issue at hand. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Sukant Chandan if we were to look at what is going on regarding Syria, please give us your input on this.

How you see the overall picture? Because we are looking at an opposition that appears to be in disarray. We are looking at this Friends of Syria meeting to be held in Istanbul.

But at this point the diplomatic front does not seem to be anywhere close to what these countries that are so obsessed with regime change, actually want.

Chandan: Well, quite right. I think that it is a quite interesting situation that we find in Syria because, I think that really the Syrian Ba’athist government and army have shown that they can withstand this international imperialist conspiracy, be it imperialists allied with their proxies on the ground. They can withstand the devastation. They can withstand the trauma that the Syrian National Army has remained unified and cohesive in the face of vicious sectarian onslaught by the death squads supported by the imperialist powers and this being the case, even the imperialist powers, at least in their rhetoric. And we know that we cannot trust their rhetoric much anyway, for at least even in the political rhetoric in Geneva in 2012, there was an admission that all parties in the Syrian conflict have to be involved in resolving the conflict there.

Nevertheless, I think that the crucial phrase to understand what is going on in Syria, actually, is the United States administration admitting its pivot to Asia and then while Britain and France particularly… – we had an opinion piece in the New York Times just a few days ago – still really trying to lobby the United States to use its military muscle to implement a no-fly zone in Syria.

Actually the United States is quite disinterested in that and why is it disinterested in that? Not only because there is a strategic pivot to Asia, in their own words, but actually things in the Middle East, North African region are going to plan for imperialism, i.e. that they do not have to intervene directly militarily and that brown-skinned sellouts or coconuts or uncle toms or whatever you want to call them, unfortunately the people within the region, who are collaborating with imperialism, are delivering, for imperialism, its strategic interests in the region generally and Syria specifically as we are discussing.