Social Engineering 101, How to Make a Refugee Crisis:
Destruction of All Prevailing Political Orders in the Middle East
Starting in 2007, the US was already in the process of
engineering the overthrow and destruction of all prevailing political
orders across the Middle East and North African (MENA) region.
It would be in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s 2007 New Yorker article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” that it was explicitly stated (emphasis added):
To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
Hersh would also reveal that at the time, the US – then under the
administration of President George Bush and through intermediaries
including US-ally Saudi Arabia – had already begun channeling funding
and support to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood who would in 2011 play a
crucial role in the opening phases of the destructive war now raging
across the Levant.
In 2008, from Libya to Syria and beyond, activists were drawn by the
US State Department from across MENA to learn the finer points of
Washington and Wall Street’s “color revolution” industry. They were
being prepared for an unprecedented, coordinated US-engineered MENA-wide
campaign of political destabilization that would in 2011 be called the
“Arab Spring.”
Through the US State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and US State