Who Says that Obama Has No Strategy?

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Who Says that Obama Has No Strategy?
Published in Akhbar Al Khaleej (Bahrain) on 2 September 2014 by Al-Sayyid Zahra [link to original]
Translated from Arabic by Jackson Allan.
Edited by Emily France.
Posted on September 11, 2014.

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America knows precisely the grand strategic goals that it wants to achieve in the region, and it knows precisely the means by which to achieve them. It also knows precisely the end results that it hopes its strategy will produce. In fact, we have talked repeatedly about the dimensions of this American strategy.

For example, in the case of Iraq and Syria, on which the aforementioned debate in America focused, the situation is clear. America does not want to eliminate the Islamic State and does not want Iraq to be stable or united. America does not want Assad to be removed, nor does it want Syria to be stable or united. Avoiding these things is among America’s strategic goals at present.

At the same time, America wants the current situation in Iraq and Syria to act as doorway into a discussion about what it calls “Sunni terrorism” in the region, and an opportunity to paint it as the biggest danger threatening the West and the world as a whole. Of course, beyond that, it has other strategic goals in the wider Arab region.

America wants the situation in Iraq and Syria to act as a gateway into the chaos that it wants to see in all Arab countries. It wants to use the situation to weaken and dismantle the Arab states and to deprive them of control over their land, society and fate. For America, all of these things are clear strategic goals and methods of achieving them. The U.S. imagines that if it follows this strategy, the Arab states will divide, disintegrate and disappear.