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Position of the Syrian revolutionary left regarding dialogue with the dictatorial regime Posted on February 11, 2013<http://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/position-of-the-syrian-revolutionary-left-regarding-dialogue-with-the-dictatorial-regime/> [image: Image]<http://syriafreedomforever.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/426085_504836449568817_1462764637_n1.jpg> in arabic http://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/ãæÞÝ-Íæá-ÇáÍæÇÑ-ãÚ-ÇáäÙÇã-ÇáÏßÊÇÊæÑí/<http://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/____-___-______-__-______-__________/> We witnessed at the beginning of this year, two important events regarding the activities of the Syrian opposition. Firstly, the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Changes (NCCDC) meeting in Geneva in which this latter returned at its conclusion to reach an understanding with some conditions for a dialogue with the ruling junta regime. The second event was the initiative of Sheikh Maaz Khatib, head of the National Coalition, who also suggested a conditional dialogue with the regime. No sane person can refuse lightly everything that can stop or ease the suffering of our people and their great sacrifices, but this does not mean, that we have to accept and support any initiative claiming it is seeking to do so. The judgment on such initiatives is subject, from our point of view, to the criteria meeting the following conditions: to provide for the masses the ability to re-establish their fight and struggle to topple the dictatorial regime, that does not provide for the latter to prolong its time or survival, and in particular that allow the space for radical change from below in favor of the popular classes and to serve their direct and general interests. (NCCDC) and Sheikh Moaz initiatives both converge in calling for change from above, with the difference that the initiative of Sheikh al-Khatib, whatever is its ultimate fate, reflects clearly the will of the traditional bourgeoisie and especially of Damascus, to find a solution that maintains its class interests, which were served by the current regime for decades, but that became theaten completely with this popular revolution. This bourgeois class became encourage for the need for partial change partial and from above of the dictatorial regime, restricted to to political feature, and not social ones. This is and has been originally and essentially what are calling for the allies of the regime and also the countries that claim to be the friend of the Syrian people. Both parties do not want or wish the victory of the popular revolution. In this context, we express our refusal of such initiatives that do not meet the root political and social requirements from the bottom of the popular revolution, and do not contribute to the strengthening of the popular movement, on the path to victory. All the power and wealth to the people Revolutionary Left Current in Syria Damascus 10/2/2013 -------------------------------------------------- SUN FEB 10, 2013 AT 11:23 AM PST #Obama: Did the #CIA betray #Assad's opposition in #Syria?<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/10/1186006/--Obama-Did-the-CIA-betray-Assad-s-opposition-in-Syria> byClay Claiborne <http://www.dailykos.com/user/Clay%20Claiborne>Follow<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/10/1186006/--Obama-Did-the-CIA-betray-Assad-s-opposition-in-Syria?showAll=yes#?friend_id=125110&is_stream=1> - - - 33 Comments / 33 New<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/10/1186006/--Obama-Did-the-CIA-betray-Assad-s-opposition-in-Syria#comments> *America, is trying to prolong the Syrian revolution.* -- Firas Tlass (a high level Assad defector) [image: Follow clayclai on Twitter] <http://twitter.com/clayclai> I am a relatively insignificant person, so the fact that I think Obama has liked Assad, as expressed it in my last diary<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/08/1185590/-Barack-Obama-s-Courtship-of-Bashar-Assad-Exposed-in-Syria>, is hardly worth all the angst and vitriol it generated. However, the fact that a growing number of Syrians, and a growing mindset on the Arab Street, is of the opinion that the United States has really been supporting the murderous Assad dictatorship and not the people in this struggle, is something that should be of great concern to all Americans and can't be changed by a thousand donuts from Kossacks because it is based on what the US has done rather than what its leaders have said. >From the Daily Beast today we have this story<http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/02/11/did-the-cia-betray-syria-s-rebels.html> : Did the CIA Betray Syrias Rebels? *Americans didnt keep promises to opposition leaders. Now theyve turned against the U.S.* Feb 12, 2013 12:00 AM EST By Mike Giglio. In mid-August, a well-connected Syrian activist drove to the border city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey to meet two officers from the CIA. The officers had set up shop in a conference room at a luxury hotel, where representatives from a handful of opposition groups lounged in the lobby, waiting for their turn at an audience. The activist, who had been a journalist before the conflict, came with three colleagues from Aleppo, the Syrian commercial capital that had recently turned into the main theater of the war. Inside the room, two casually dressed Americans were rolling up maps from the previous meeting. The Americans introduced themselves as CIA officers and said they were there to help with the overthrow of Syrias authoritarian president<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/08/can-social-media-disarm-syria-s-chemical-arsenal.html>, Bashar al-Assad. The activist declined to be named for this article, because he didnt want to be connected publicly to U.S. intelligence. He is respected in Aleppo, and I first met him, in another southern Turkey hotel, at a State Departmentfunded training seminar for activists, where he was a keynote speaker. According to the activist, the officers questioned the group about creeping Islamism in the rebel ranks. Were Aleppo rebels supportive of democracy? Hostile to the West? What about al Qaeda? Then the officers asked how they could help. The activists wanted armed support for the rebels in Aleppoin particular, surface-to-air missilesbut the officers explained that America worried such weapons could fall into the hands of extremists. Lets leave military matters aside, one of the officers said. The group made a list of things like satellite phones and medical supplies, and the officers promised to be back in touch soon. *We are here to help you bring down Assad,* one of the officers repeated. However, in the months since, that activist, as well as many senior figures in the rebellion, have begun to suspect that the United States has no intention of living up to its promises<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/29/the-american-surrender-on-syria.html>. In a turn of events resonant of Iraq, many who had once been eager to work with the Americans feel betrayed, and some see meetings like those in Gaziantep as little more than a hostile intelligence-gathering exercise. ... In a phone interview in January, Tlass told me he had been present at the meetings with the Aleppo activists and the Liwa al-Fatah rebels, and he confirmed their accounts. He said that he had arranged a number of similar meetings with the CIA, and that promises like the ones the officers made in Gaziantep were commonplaceincluding the indirect promise of arms. *They promised to provide telecommunications devices, and afterward, if the rebels proved effective and honest, then they would [help] provide military support,* he said. *Tlass told me that the Americans had kept none of those promises, that not even the communications equipment or hospital supplies had materialized. He then accused America of pushing a dark agenda in Syriaworking to keep the war going instead of helping with the overthrow of Assad. America,Tlass said, is trying to prolong the Syrian revolution.* [bold added] More..<http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/02/11/did-the-cia-betray-syria-s-rebels.html> *If this story of betrayal is true, it has a cost in blood. It has had a very high cost in blood in Syria in the past year!* <http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8360/8316448126_b4338cc5ce_z.jpg> *An aside on "Conspiracy Theories" for Kossacks:* My last diary was given dozens of hide ratings [HR], because the raters claimed my view that Obama had wanted to keep Assad in power, or to put it another way is trying to prolong the Syrian revolution or "pushing a dark agenda in Syria" was a *"Conspiracy Theory"* [CT]. That is nonsense. <http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/10/1186006/--Obama-Did-the-CIA-betray-Assad-s-opposition-in-Syria?showAll=yes>What the story reported in the Daily Beast shows again for the hundredth time is that those that claim the Syrian revolution is really a US orchestrated and funded effort at regime change are the real conspiracy theorists in this discussion. This is a CT with almost no foundation in fact, It is a CT heavily promoted by the Assad regime. And yet it is a CT that I hardly ever see called out as such in the Daily Kos where it is frequently promoted by a handful of Kossacks. 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