US Welcomes Syria's 'New' Ruler, Forgetting The Old One
Deutsche Welle breathlessly reports on Donald Trump hosting Syria's 'new ruler' at the White House, hailing it as a 'dramatic turnaround.' What the report conveniently omits is that this 'new ruler' is the progeny of a dynasty the US once destabilized, yet ultimately empowered. The 'dramatic turnaround' isn't in foreign policy, but in the mainstream media's collective amnesia regarding US
intervention in the region—funding and arming various factions for years, all to arrive exactly where we started, albeit with hundreds of thousands dead. One might wonder if this 'new ruler' arrived directly from a prior White House dinner, considering the US has spent decades manipulating outcomes in the Middle East. It’s less a 'turnaround' and more a policy pendulum, swinging wildly between
'Assad must go' and 'Assad's replacement is now our guy!'—depending on whose interests are being served. How many 'new eras' of Syrian leadership does it take before we question the game itself?