NATO reiterated on Tuesday it had no intention of conducting any military intervention in Syria’s conflict after a Syrian opposition leader again urged the United States to intervene on behalf of the rebels by protecting and reinforcing rebel-held areas.
“NATO has no intention to intervene militarily in Syria,” a NATO official said in response to a request from Syrian opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib for American forces to defend rebel fighters with Patriot missiles.
“I have asked Mr Kerry to extend the umbrella of the Patriot missiles to cover the Syrian north and he promised to study the subject,” Alkhatib said.
While the US has all but taken direct military action off the table, it has been increasing its involvement in the Syrian conflict by proxy, helping send arms from throughout the region to rebel fighters and even training some in neighboring Jordan.
The Obama administration claims these efforts to arm and train the Syrian rebels are intended to bolster the so-called moderate elements of the opposition, but intelligence officials have previously criticized America’s capacity to do so.
US interventionism in Syria is contributing to a proxy war being played out by virtually all the region’s players. Syria maintains Russia’s backing, as well as Iran’s, while Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey and others aggressively back the Syrian rebels, many of whom would prove dangerous if brought to power.
“The moderate political and military command structure the U.S. has been trying to foster within the Syrian opposition appears to be fracturing, a victim of bitter Arab regional rivalries,” writes The Washington Post‘s David Ingatius, with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states promoting Sunni jihadists and Qatar and Turkey pushing for an Islamist-led government by the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria.
Always these contradictions between headline and following text …
At least regarding their Proxy fighters they used against Libya, it was said that USA wants and controls the Jihadi/Al Qaida fighters.
May be after the cut off penis of the US Libyan Ambassador they are not longer sure that they can control them.
"While the US has all but taken direct military action off the table"
Glaser is hallucinating. The US and NATO are currently laying plans for direct military intervention.
You will see it happen this year because nothing has changed on the ground. The insurgents cannot beat Syria's military and Syria's military cannot beat the insurgents as long as they have foreign support. There is only ONE possible outcome: foreign military intervention.
And this is strategically necessary because Israel cannot have an Iran war until both Syria and Hizballah missile arsenals are degraded – and this can only be done by direct military intervention by the US, NATO, Israel and Turkey.
They don't dare doing it.., this war is on the door steps of Europe.., I just want to see that Danish Ratt Mussen try.., or for that matter that Swedish Neo fascism rightwing wanting to help out.
USA avoide "On the ground" (!) direct military intervention in most former wars except the last Iraq war, which has been a desaster in any respect and did ruin USA.
And in this case there was no klast remaining naval base of the Russians and a militarily strong victim along with an even stronger nighbor who knows they are the next on the US war list and who already did declare that intervention in Syria will not be tolerated. Also NATO media censorship about huge andf freqent anti government demonstrations because of aggressive Turkish politics does not change resistance against a Turkish war against this long-term friendly nighbor Syria. Even the first bomb before an government building exploded.
Many Euriopean people know well the dirty lies of their media regarding Syria and their will be a strong resistance and information campaign which will damage the reputation of war mongering media totally.
Germany even has a law which can bring planners of a war into prison for at least 3 to 10 years. This is already well known in the German public and will gain further presence with consequences beyond only this case.
And without direct on-the ground intervention, they must accept that the killer troops of the Saudis, Al Qaida, will take over Syria and build united Islamic oil states which can resist US/NATO attacks, because they can destroy Saudi kingdom and any oilfield and can not be successfully hunted by even hundred thousands of drones. And may be the experienced guerrilla war fighters may even follow their want and provide their guerrilla war within US towns. The fighters are happy to die.
The US people surely will not like permanent suicid bombings in the major towns of USA.
Since NATO countries already provided recruiting and convincing islamist extremist fighzters for Libya and Syria, it is no problem, to switch over for USA attacks or attacks in France/UK – its is even nearer and better known than Syria and Libya.
Do the war mongers know this? Or do they believe their own war propaganda?
USA avoided direct military intervention "On the ground" (!) in most former wars except the last Iraq war, which has been a disaster in any respect and did ruin USA.
And in Iraq there was no last remaining mediteranian naval base of the Russians and a militarily strong victim along with an even stronger nighbor who knows they are the next on the US war list and who already did declare that intervention in Syria will not be tolerated. Also NATO media censorship about huge andf freqent anti government demonstrations because of aggressive Turkish politics does not change resistance against a Turkish war against this long-term friendly nighbor Syria. Even the first bomb before an government building exploded.
Many Euriopean people know well the dirty lies of their media regarding Syria and their will be a strong resistance and information campaign which will damage the reputation of war mongering media totally.
Germany even has a law which can bring planners of a war into prison for at least 3 to 10 years. This is already well known in the German public and will gain further presence with consequences beyond only this case.
And without direct on-the ground intervention, they must accept that the killer troops of the Saudis, Al Qaida, will take over Syria and build united Islamic oil states which can resist US/NATO attacks, because they can destroy Saudi kingdom and any oilfield and can not be successfully hunted by even hundred thousands of drones. And may be the experienced guerrilla war fighters may even follow their want and provide their guerrilla war within US towns. The fighters are happy to die.
The US people surely will not like permanent suicid bombings in the major towns of USA.
Since NATO countries already provided recruiting and convincing islamist extremist fighzters for Libya and Syria, it is no problem, to switch over for USA attacks or attacks in France/UK – its is even nearer and better known than Syria and Libya.
Do the war mongers know this? Or do they believe their own war propaganda?
USA avoided direct military intervention "On the ground" (!) in most former wars except the last Iraq war, which has been a disaster in any respect and did ruin USA.
And in Iraq there was no last remaining mediteranian naval base of the Russians and a militarily strong victim along with an even stronger nighbor who knows they are the next on the US war list. Iran already did declare that intervention in Syria will not be tolerated.
Also NATO media censorship about huge and frequent anti government demonstrations because of aggressive Turkish politics does not change resistance against a Turkish war against this long-term friendly neighbor Syria. Even the first bomb before an government building exploded.
Many European people know well the dirty lies of their media regarding Syria and their will be a strong resistance and information campaign which will damage the reputation of war mongering media totally.
Germany even has a law which can bring planners of a war into prison for at least 3 to 10 years. This is already well known in the German public and will gain further presence with consequences beyond only this case.
And without direct on-the ground intervention, they must accept that the killer troops of the Saudis, Al Qaida, will take over Syria and build united Islamic oil states which can resist US/NATO attacks, because they can destroy Saudi kingdom and any oilfield and can not be successfully hunted by even hundred thousands of drones. And may be the experienced guerrilla war fighters may even follow their want and provide their guerrilla war within US towns. The fighters are happy to die.
The US people surely will not like permanent suicide bombings in the major towns of USA.
Since NATO countries already provided recruiting and convincing Islamic extremist fighters for Libya and Syria, it is no problem, to switch over for USA attacks or attacks in France/UK – its is even nearer and better known than Syria and Libya.
Do the war mongers know this? Or do they believe their own war propaganda?
USA avoided direct military intervention "On the ground" (!) in most former wars except the last Iraq war, which has been a disaster in any respect and did ruin USA.
And in Iraq there was no last remaining mediteranian naval base of the Russians and a militarily strong victim along with an even stronger nighbor who knows they are the next on the US war list. Iran already did declare that intervention in Syria will not be tolerated.
Also NATO media censorship about huge and frequent anti government demonstrations because of aggressive Turkish politics does not change resistance against a Turkish war against this long-term friendly neighbor Syria. Even the first bomb before an government building exploded.
Many European people know well the dirty lies of their media regarding Syria and their will be a strong resistance and information campaign which will damage the reputation of war mongering media totally.
Germany even has a law which can bring planners of a war into prison for at least 3 to 10 years. This is already well known in the German public and will gain further presence with consequences beyond only this case.
And without direct on-the ground intervention, they must accept that the killer troops of the Saudis, Al Qaida, will take over Syria and build united Islamic oil states which can resist US/NATO attacks, because they can destroy Saudi kingdom and any oilfield and can not be successfully hunted by even hundred thousands of drones. And may be the experienced guerrilla war fighters may even follow their want and provide their guerrilla war within US towns. The fighters are happy to die.
The US people surely will not like permanent suicide bombings in the major towns of USA.
Since NATO countries already provided recruiting and convincing Islamic extremist fighters for Libya and Syria, it is no problem, to switch over for USA attacks or attacks in France/UK – its is even nearer and better known than Syria and Libya.
Do the war mongers know this? Or do they believe their own war propaganda?
0800, Secret Agent 008 (licensed to kill by drone) Obama, would prefer you not to refer to the #1 belligerent as the US or US/NATO), but rather, he says, you should more accurately refer to it as the corporate/financial/militarist/media/legal and political Global Empire previously known as America.
You are, of course, free to use the term DGE (Disguised Global Empire) to shorten the description in the media.
Thanks for your cooperation in this matter,
Sincerely,
Jay Carney
Thank you very much for enhancing my article ! You made it much clearer than me.
" corporate/financial/militarist/media/legal and political Global Empire previously known as America. " fits exactly. I sometimes call it criminal association of corporations, media and governments – and also use it within Germany for the German situation. It is actually a worldwide phenomena with US leadership.
NATO is USA and USA or that shitty little squatting entity that dictates their middle east policy, is hell bent on having a war from Syria all the way to Iran, so war it gonna be.
That would of course mean WW3 but the paranoid fanatics in "israel" couldn´t care less since their bloody colonial experiment is about to vanish anyway. "No intention" my arse, nobody, from the native Americans to the Iraqis, Afghans,Vietnamese and so on, have ever had any reason to believe or trust a word from them, much less now.
Why and how NATO have any INTENTION to intervene militarily, when it is already doing so?
NATO – we are too busy with Afghan children right now