US encourages coup against independent governments: Analyst
The US government has long sought to infiltrate and overthrow independent governments that fail to follow American policies, an author and radio host in Chicago says.
“This is long-standing US policy, going after an independent government that isn’t following or playing by Washington’s imperial rules,” Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Friday.
“They try to infiltrate the government [and] encourage individuals within the government” to carry out a coup, Lendman said.
According to a new investigative report, the United States looked for “cracks” inside the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad in a bid to orchestrate a “military coup” in the Arab country.
The administration of US President Barack Obama was exploring “cracks in the regime” and “offering incentives for people to abandon Assad,” the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
US intelligence officials identified officers who potentially could lead a coup against the Assad government, the newspaper said, citing current and former US officials, Arab officials and diplomats.
The Obama administration’s core message, meanwhile, never strayed from the line that Assad ultimately had to step down, said the report.
The rise of Daesh (ISIL) terrorists in 2013, however, caught the Obama administration off guard.
Militants, many of whom would later join the Daesh group, were trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government.
The United States and its allies have been insisting that Assad cannot be part of any future government in Syria.
Last week, Obama reiterated the US strategy, saying Assad "is going to have to leave in order for the country to stop the bloodletting and for all the parties involved to be able to move forward in a non-sectarian way. He has lost legitimacy in the eyes of a large majority of the country."
The years-long crisis in Syria has claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people and displaced millions of others.
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