`Is there nothing you will not lie about? Do you have no shame?’
demanded a frustrated Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the UN,
accusing the three allies, Russia, Iran
and Syria, of ‘barbarism’ and continuing atrocities as rebel territory
fell to pro-Assad forces. While this expression of ‘anger’ clearly
ignores the havoc American interventions and wars have wrecked in the
past 60 years or so, its immediate significance lies in the American
failure to impose its notorious ‘regime-change’ policy in Syria, the
kind of which it was able to impose in recent years in other countries
such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. But for Russian military campaign
against the Western backed ‘moderate rebels’ and ISIS–the by-product of
American policies in the post-American withdrawal Iraq— Syria, too,
would have fallen a prey to this policy and become yet another story of
destruction brought in the name of ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights.’
