L'opposizione siriana

Joshua Landis

Joe Pace


Per decenni, Stati Uniti. politica verso la Siria è stata unilateralmente incentrato sul presidente siriano, Hafiz al-Asad, da 1970 a 2000, seguita dal figlio Bashar. Because they perceived the Syrian opposition to be too weak and anti-American, Stati Uniti. officials preferred to work with the Asad regime. Washington thus had no relations with the Syrian opposition until its invasion of Iraq in 2003. Anche allora, the Bush administration reached out only to Washington-based opponents of the Syrian regime. They were looking for a Syrian counterpart to Ahmad Chalabi, the pro-U.S. Iraqi opposition leader who helped build the case for invading Iraq.
Washington was not interested in engaging Islamists, whom it considered the only opposition with a demonstrated popular base in Syria. As for the secular opposition in Syria, Stati Uniti. embassy officials in Damascus considered them to “have a weak back bench,” without a popular constituency or connection to Syrian youth.2 Moreover, contact between opposition members and embassy officials could be dangerous for opponents of the regime and leave them open to accusations of treason. For these reasons, the difficult terrain of opposition figures within Syria remained terra incognita.

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