Lebanon: Siniora Calls on Obama to Bomb Away

By: Pierre Abisaab

Al-Akhbar, September 12, 2013

Just as people across the Arab world were breathing a collective sigh of relief after the postponement of Washington's attack on Syria, a major political faction in Lebanon was cursing its bad luck, distraught at Barack Obama's hesitation to let it rip in Damascus.

March 14 could care less by what means the "revolution" succeeds - even if it required strafing the country with napalm. All that matters to the likes of Fouad Siniora is that the regime is toppled, and by any means.

In a letter to Obama published in Foreign Policy magazine on September 10, former Lebanese prime minister and Future Party leader Fouad Siniora appeals to the American president to "step up in Syria." He writes, "The world - and the West in particular - has a great moral obligation to stop al-Assad's hateful campaign."
Today, we have the man steeped in Arab nationalism calling on a foreign power, well-known for its long record of disastrous imperialist adventures, to bomb a country that symbolizes Arabism.
This is the same man who started as an accountant for the Hariri family, only to become the kind of minister of finance who refined the art of squeezing the poor to fatten up the rich.

During the July 2006 "Israeli" war on Lebanon, he cried crocodile tears before the world's media to "save his country," while behind the scenes, he was urging the enemy to forge on, as revealed by Wikileaks.
Today, we have the man steeped in Arab nationalism calling on a foreign power, well-known for its long record of disastrous imperialist adventures, to bomb a country that symbolizes Arabism.

He asks Uncle Obama to reconsider his decision not to bomb Syria for the time being. He desperately wants America's missiles to free the Syrian people, just as they had done in Iraq before it.
"The West ... needs to lead a new process to protect Syria and the broader Arab world from fragmentation," Siniora writes. "It can do so by supporting the forces of moderation, harnessing the spirit of those Syrian protesters who took to the streets early in the revolution calling for peaceful change."

He accuses the West of watching the crisis unfold as Russia and Iran arm the regime to the teeth, arguing that the US "has a strategic interest in ending the conflict in Syria" and "the expansion of Iranian hegemony in the region."

What can we say about such people, if we want to avoid accusations of treason or political suicide? Can this madness be explained by their disappointment at the failure of Uncle Sam to save the day?

Siniora and Co. want war for the sake of peace, and freedom by invasion and occupation. They want to lure America's military machine, which has torn whole nations apart, in the name of a sham democracy that everyone knows is not possible if it is delivered by way of cruise missiles