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Conclusion

From: Washington's Long War on Syria

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The Conclusion reflects on how the values which secular Arab nationalists promoted were antithetical to U.S. capitalist class interests, which were embodied in U.S. imperialist ideology. That ideology encouraged states to fall in behind U.S. leadership, described as “essential” and “indispensable,” and demanded that economies be open to U.S. goods, services and investments—and on terms favorable to U.S. corporate profit-making. In defiance, Arab nationalist states in Syria and Iraq instilled in schoolchildren the values of self-determination, Arab socialism, and Arab unity—entirely at odds with what Wall Street-dominated Washington called “American values and interests.” Of course, these values and interests related to U.S. global economic “leadership,” whose purpose was to protect and promote the pursuit of profit by U.S. capitalists. Corporate America was to receive unimpeded access to markets and investment opportunities anywhere in the world, regardless of the wishes of the people who lived in whatever part of the world the quest for profits drove it. And its goal would be profit-making, not the satisfaction of human needs.

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Stephen Gowans runs the popular and widely read What’s Left webzine. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.