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On March 12, 2015, as told in a report by the Guardian, Khaled Khoja, while addressing European parliamentarians in France, lashed out at the United States. What Khoja isn’t saying, but saying very loudly “between the lines” is that the United States had abandoned his cause for one America felt a stronger kinship with, returning to their traditional alliance with Al Qaeda and the Israeli “front group” sometimes called ISIS.
Khaled Khoja, president of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), described US plans to train and equip 15,000 Syrian rebels over the next three years as a “joke”, and questioned why Washington was bypassing the Free Syrian Army, a coalition of non-jihadi groups that are fighting both Assad and Islamic State (Isis).
“The Americans don’t want to coordinate with the FSA,” Khoja told the Guardian. “There is no will from our allies. We have a lot of allies and a lot of promises compared with what the regime has received.”
The opposition leader was speaking in France after talks with the European government that has been most supportive of the anti-Assad effort – though not enough to overcome its many difficulties. Only two countries back the Syrian president – Russia and Iran. “They have forged a ‘pact of steel’ [a reference to the Hitler-Mussolini agreement of 1939],” he said. No less than 114 countries make up the group known as the “Friends of the Syrian people”. Yet theirs, he added, was only “a pact of cardboard”.
Secretary Kerry’s remarks with Syrian Opposition Coalition President Khaled Khoja:
“I’m very pleased to welcome the president of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, President Khoja. And we’re very happy to be able to talk today about, obviously, a very compelling and tragic situation.
The situation on the ground in #Syria and in the communities around it is simply unsustainable, catastrophic.It has a profound impact, negative, on each of the surrounding communities, particularly Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan but especially on the people of Syria. Three quarters of the population of Syria is now displaced people and many of them, at least half, internally within Syria itself.
Whole communities have been destroyed. Children, innocent medical personnel, women have barrel bombs dropped on them from the sky. This is a regime that has lost all sense of any kind of responsibility to its own people, and that is why there must be a transition from the Assad regime towards a government that represents all the people and can repair this extraordinary damage to Syria, unite the country, protect all minorities, and provide a legitimate future.
The other part of the problem is that as Assad is busy destroying the country in his own interests, he is enabling and attracting terrorists to the country who are having a further negative impact on the region. That’s why he has lost all legitimacy with respect to his ability to be able to be a part of the long-term future of the country.
The Syrian opposition continues to fight difficult odds. They have agreed to be part of UN talks that will take place over the course of the next weeks and month. And we very much hope that in the immediate days ahead, that people will be able to find a new path by which to create an outcome that will restore the secular, united nature of Syria and be able to prevent this extraordinary humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding before the world’s eyes.”
Khoja, an ethnic Syrian Turkman, born in Damascus, educated in Turkey, has been tasked with reforming the coalition whose military forces have long dissolved and whose political aspirations to rule Syria are grossly subordinated to events.
It is not unreasonable to look on the meeting between Kerry and Khoja as that of two fleas arguing over who owns the dog?
No wonder Khoja doesn’t take the US seriously. America’s defacto policy of warring on both Syria and Iraq either through surrogates or as a surrogate, depending on how one chooses to portray the power of the Israeli-Saudi nexus in Washington, defies all logic.
Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.
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