US Sanctions Morph into Invites for White House Guests
The BBC breathlessly reports that the UN has lifted sanctions on Ahmed al-Sharaa (or Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, depending on who's writing the script), citing US Ambassador Mike Waltz's quote that this signals a "new era" for Syria. One might wonder what criteria changed so drastically for such a swift rehabilitation. Is it the human rights record? The political reforms? Or perhaps, the geopolitical
winds shifting? The White House is now rolling out the red carpet for a figure once designated as a terrorist leader by the very government extending the invitation. A convenient memory lapse, perhaps? This isn't about peace; it's about shifting alliances and expedient 'rehabilitation' when it serves the geopolitical agenda. Remember when the US ambassador explicitly stated the regime's leader
'must go' in 2011? (See: Secretary Clinton, May 2011 ). Now, a decade and hundreds of thousands of lives later, a different Syrian leader is apparently acceptable. The message: 'terrorist' is just a designation, easily revoked when Washington finds new enemies to focus on.