Since even before the US invasion of Iraq, I was writing that the US intended to turn the Middle East of today into the Central America of yesterday. What does that mean? Read the history of neoliberalism in Latin America, and the accompanying “Dirty Wars” that spread terror and chaos throughout the region to get a clearer understanding of what I mean.
When American corporations were making a full frontal assault on Latin America in the 1970s and 80s, and turning it into the first laboratory for neoliberal imperialism; their principal manager on the ground was US ambassador to Honduras, John Negroponte.
Negroponte recruited, trained, organized, and facilitated funding for death squads in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and elsewhere.
When the US occupied Iraq, they installed Negroponte as ambassador once again, and assigned him the same duties.
Negroponte delegated the task to Robert Stephen Ford, a fluent Arabic-speaker, and Ford began his career as a minister of chaos under the tutelage of Negroponte, whom the Latin Americans refer to as “Mr. Death Squad”.
Following his internship in organized savagery, Ford was appointed as the US ambassador to Syria, where he promptly began to travel around the country advocating armed rebellion.
The US tried next to appoint Ford as ambassador to Egypt; though his appointment was ultimately retracted due to public outrage, this should indicate to you the extent to which major interests in the US would like to see Egypt fall into violent chaos.
Ford, like his mentor Negroponte, is a destabilization expert, when they talk about “regime change” what they mean is exchanging sovereignty for subjugation to corporate imperialism by means of atrocities and terror.
In Syria, the US is not interested in overthrowing Assad, they are interested in overthrowing the society; and there are powerful coalitions of business elites in the US, and globally, who are interested in overthrowing Egyptian society by the same methods