Top U.S. and NATO military leaders have been exploring possible scenarios in Syria if Western powers decide to attack and eliminate the the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The deliberations were revealed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey during a speech Tuesday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.
“We want to know what [comes] next, before taking that step [to] military action,” he said.
Dempsey made clear that these deliberations during meetings with NATO leaders in Brussels last month did not include any actual planning for military action in Syria and emphasized that a post-Assad situation would be uncontrollable. “There are certain things we cannot do,” he said.
Pressure in the Washington is still strong for a military intervention into Syria after ongoing violence has discredited the UN-brokered ceasefire. Interventionists are pretending their call to arms is about protecting Syrian civilians and ending the violence, but intervention would almost certainly escalate the violence and most admit the broader aim is to eliminate one of Iran’s main allies in the region.
The Obama administration has been somewhat opaque on Syria. They have said, along with NATO, that there are no plans for military action, but they have also reportedly sent “non-lethal aid” to the opposition, condemned the Annan plan as a failure, and hinted at a “Plan B” in light of the seemingly intractable nature of the conflict.
"Post-Assad Scenarios?" And IF Assad is not dethroned? Dempsey and NATO military leaders seem woefully intellectually challenged. Alright, I really mean retarded.
I would bet dollars to donuts that NATO/old colonial powers already have decided to put Bibi/lieberman in charge of Syria. They looked at the wonderful treatment of the people of gaza and then decided what more could the people of Syria desire than occupation by the IDF. One step closer to a land war in Asia. I can see hundreds of IDF tanks rushing the front lines of the Iran/Israel war. This will be the Iran/Iraq war redux. In the Iran/Iraq war Iran lost a million men. The potential for a land war with massive number of deaths is increasing with every regime change.
One might have a better feeling if they were to have someone picked before they got this far into destroying a nation. Libya the last NATO naked aggression is still a mess and heading into deep trouble as the arms of Libya get into the real terrorist networks.
BTW NATO which is just the old colonial power really does not have a very good record in making peace. NATO/old colonial powers attacked and destroyed the ottoman empire and look at the 100 years of war that resulted.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
I love the way the US names it institutions. I have noticed that names given invariably do the opposite of what the name stands for. Look how they are talking about war in a place that is supposed to be for peace.
There are more names like the above, but my memory fails me. For instance if an institution has the word ‘democracy’ in its title, you can be sure that its function is to subvert democracy in foreign lands. Try it yourself. Recall some of the names, and you will see what I mean.
National Endowment for Democracy
International Republican Institute
National Democratic Institute
World Movement for Democracy
International Forum for Democratic Studies
Network of Democracy Research Institutes
Center for International Media Assistance……
A rose by another name is still a rose. They all have one thing in common. The are all zionist fronts fro expanding israel. The USA is using Israel to keep control of the oil market and war makes for a lot of profit for the war mongers.
According to the experts at Wikipedia: At the outset of America’s involvement in World War I in 1917, the Carnegie Endowment trustees unanimously declared that “the most effective means of promoting durable international peace is to prosecute the war against the Imperial Government of Germany to final victory for democracy.”
Syria is like Bosnia, an artificial created country full of various people who do like each other and do not want to live with each other. The only way to keep them together is through a dictatorship or foreign occupation. If NATO gets involved, like in Bosnia, they will be there forever.
And just like in the case of Yugoslavia or Bosnia — nobody BOTHERED to ask people. The the vast majority did not wish to destroy their country. West asks people ONLY when the answer will be to their liking. They want NOTHING LESS THEN DESTRUCTION OF SYRIA and any form of central authority. People will be subjugated to crime gangs like in Libya, to pillage, rape, kill at will. There is NO PLAN to keep Syria a stable and viable country, just like Libya. The plan is to further open chaos in the Middle East. The next stop will be Lebanon, then the kingdoms and sheikhdoms that are now "allies". Tumble them down, take their wealth in foreign bank accounts, and let again a collection of clans/thugs/crime rings take control. Foreign military will — just as in the case of Libya — take over only oil and gas infrastructure. Who needs "nation building", when nation destruction is so much easier and less costly?
Whatever the the plans are, they'll be the same happytalk, rose tinted glass murderous optimism that accompanied the Iraq invasion and will end up in total failure.
Pity the Syrians. Look how well Iraq post-Saddam and Libya post-Qaddaffi turned out.
Delusions of grandeur by the North American Terrorist Organization, and Amerika. There will be no removal of Assad. Russia, Iran, and China will make sure of this. The US has no idea what real pain is since it always chooses fights with beleagured countries with no real defenses..and still get's beat.
They were discussing this in 2008 with pro-Israel super-hawk Dennis Ross holding meetings with the Syrian "chalabis". Americans need to wake up and understand what is going on in their name. Check out this link for example http://www.forsyria.org/archive_articles_details….
If links cannot be posted, then Google Democracy Council, April 2008, Ross Syria