'US backs chaos, ally Al-Qaeda seeks Iraq-style war in Syria'

Amerika menyokong huru-hara, sekutu Al-Qaeda bertujuan gaya Iraq-perang di Syria' . . .

1WC’sChannel REVIEW 2012: (9 minutes ago) Lawrence Freeman, an editor of the Executive Intelligence Review magazine, says the U.S. rhetoric that the military should remain intact after Assad leaves doesn't fit with its earlier accusations that government forces are massacring the Syrian people. (TINJAUAN 1WC'sChannel 2012: (9 minit yang lalu) Lawrence Freeman, seorang editor majalah Review Perisikan Eksekutif, kata retorik Amerika Syarikat bahawa tentera akan kekal mantap selepas daun Assad tidak sesuai dengan tuduhan terlebih dahulu bahawa pasukan kerajaan telah massacringrakyat Syria).

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1WC'sChannel REVIEW 2012: U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (TINJAUAN 1WC'sChannel 2012: Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat Leon Panetta (Reuters/Mark Wilson/Pool)

'Assad lebih baik mendapatkan dirinya keluar neraka' - Panetta . . .

Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat Sec. Leon Panetta mempunyai nasihat untuk Presiden Assad di Syria: "Jika anda mahu menjadi mampu untuk melindungi diri anda dan keluarga anda, anda sebaiknya mendapatkan keluar neraka sekarang." Panetta juga memberi amaran bahawa Amerika Syarikat tidak akan mengulangi kesilapan yang dibuat di Iraq.

"Amerika Syarikat dan masyarakat antarabangsa telah membuat sangat jelas bahawa ini tidak boleh ditanggung lagi, dan telah membawa tekanan diplomatik dan ekonomi ke atas Syria untuk menghentikan jenis keganasan ini, Assad hanya mempunyai meletak jawatan dan peralihan kepada bentuk demokrasi kerajaan," katanya dalam satu wawancara dengan CNN semasa lawatan ke Tunisia.

Masyarakat antarabangsa masih belum mencapai kata sepakat perselisihan berterusan di Syria. Rusia dan China menentang mengeluarkan Assad, berkata kerajaan yang disokong oleh majoriti Syria. Kuasa-kuasa kerajaan Syria akan kekal mantap selepas embattled Presiden Assad digulingkan, Panetta berkata. Walaupun pentadbiran Obama diselesaikan terhadap campur tangan ketenteraan di negara ini, Panetta namun menarik perbandingan dengan pendudukan Iraq berikutan pencerobohan 2003 yang diketuai.

"Ia amat penting bahawa kita tidak membuat kesilapan yang sama kami buat di Iraq," katanya, merujuk kepada keputusan pentadbiran Bush untuk membubarkan tentera negara ekoran pencerobohan. "Saya fikir ia penting apabila Assad meninggalkan, dan dia akan meninggalkan, untuk cuba memelihara kestabilan di negara itu."

Setiausaha Pertahanan berkata bahawa cara yang paling berkesan untuk memelihara kestabilan Syria adalah untuk "mengekalkan banyak tentera dan polis yang anda boleh, bersama-sama dengan pasukan keselamatan, dan berharap bahawa mereka akan peralihan kepada bentuk demokrasi kerajaan."

Rejim tentera sementara merupakan satu strategi yang serupa dengan yang digunakan oleh Mesir berikutan penyingkiran Presiden Mubarak pada Januari tahun lepas, di mana Majlis Tertinggi Angkatan Tentera (SCAF) membentuk kerajaan sementara. Tetapi pemerintahan tentera yang berpanjangan mencetuskan protes besar-besaran di tengah-tengah tuntutan bahawa SCAF telah punah pilihan raya demokratik dalam usaha untuk berpaut kepada kuasa.

Kuasa Kerajaan akan menjadi penting untuk mendapatkan utama tapak tentera Syria, termasuk dakwaan senjata kimia stashes: "Ia akan menjadi suatu bencana mempunyai senjata kimia tersebut jatuh ke tangan yang salah," kata Panetta.

"Hak utama sekarang adalah untuk terus membawa tekanan ke atas Syria, untuk memberi bantuan kepada pembangkang, dan untuk menyediakan apa-apa jua jenis bantuan kemanusiaan kita boleh membantu pelarian," katanya kepada CNN.

Panetta kini di Tunisia sebagai sebahagian daripada lawatan selama seminggu Timur Tengah, di mana konflik Syria akan berada di atas agenda beliau.

Retorik yang agresif ini datang sebagai pertempuran antara tentera kerajaan dan pemberontak luap di seluruh Syria. Pertempuran telah wracked hab perindustrian daripada Aleppo minggu lalu, dengan pemberontak vowing untuk menjadikan bandar utara ke "kubur rejim."

Pentadbiran Obama telah berkata bahawa ia telah menyediakan sebanyak "bukan-Maut" bantuan kerana ia boleh kepada pasukan pemberontak Syria. Rusia telah menuduh Barat mencetuskan konflik dengan menyokong pembangkang, dengan mendakwa bahawa lebih banyak yang perlu dilakukan untuk memudahkan dialog antara kem-kem yang berperang.

‘Assad better get the hell out’ - Panetta

US Defense Sec. Leon Panetta has advice for Syria’s President Assad: “If you want to be able to protect yourself and your family, you’d better get the hell out now.” Panetta also warned that the US would not repeat the mistakes it made in Iraq.

“The United States and the international community has made very clear that this is intolerable, and have brought their diplomatic and economic pressure on Syria to stop this kind of violence, to have Assad step down and to transition to a democratic form of government,” he said in an interview with CNN during a visit to Tunisia.

The international community has yet to reach consensus on the ongoing strife in Syria. Russia and China oppose removing Assad, saying his government is supported by a majority of Syrians. Syria’s government forces should remain intact after embattled President Assad is ousted, said Panetta. Though the Obama administration is resolved against military intervention in the country, Panetta nevertheless drew a comparison with the occupation of Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion.

"It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes we made in Iraq," he said, referring to the Bush administration’s decision to disband the country’s military in the wake of the invasion. “I think it’s important when Assad leaves, and he will leave, to try to preserve stability in that country.”

The Defense Secretary said that the most effective way to preserve Syrian stability is to “maintain as much of the military and police as you can, along with security forces, and hope that they will transition to a democratic form of government.”

A temporary military regime is a strategy similar to the one employed by Egypt following the ouster of President Mubarak in January last year, where the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) formed an interim government. But prolonged military rule sparked massive protests amid claims that SCAF was stalling democratic elections in a bid to cling to power.

Government forces will be essential to securing key Syrian military sites, including alleged chemical weapons stashes: “It would be a disaster to have those chemical weapons fall into the wrong hands,” Panetta said.

"The key right now is to continue to bring that pressure on Syria, to provide assistance to the opposition, and to provide whatever kind of humanitarian aid we can to assist the refugees," he told CNN.

Panetta is currently in Tunisia as part of a week-long tour of the Middle East, during which the Syrian conflict will be at the top of his agenda.

This aggressive rhetoric comes as the fighting between government forces and rebels intensifies across Syria. Clashes have wracked the industrial hub of Aleppo for the past week, with rebels vowing to turn the northern city into the “grave of the regime.”

The Obama administration has said that it is providing as much “non-lethal” aid as it can to Syrian rebel forces. Russia has accused the West of fueling the conflict by supporting the opposition, claiming that more should be done to facilitate dialogue between the warring camps.