Just one day after Gen. Martin Dempsey declared that the new Iraq War was unwinnable without going into neighboring Syria, the administration is starting to talk about such an escalation as virtually a done deal.
“We’re not going to be restricted by borders,” insisted Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, who talked up the execution of kidnapped reporter James Foley as a “terrorist attack” against the United States in general, justifying the further escalation of the war.
Rhodes wouldn’t explicitly say that the US is going into Syria, but all of his comments pointed in that direction, saying the goal of attacking ISIS everywhere they are is going to “guide our planning in the days to come.”
The Pentagon’s push for an escalation of the air war in Iraq is now combined with the calls to expand across the border as well. Analysts continue to say the airstrikes are unlikely to be a game-changer, and that ground troops are going to be an inevitable future step.
Officials have continued to insist ground troops aren’t in the plans, but they continue to add goals to the war that are making a ground invasion less speculative, and more a matter of time.
It’s only been two weeks since the Iraq air war began, and several escalations have already been pushed through. The foundation is being laid for an open-ended war with ever expanding goals and boundaries, and Syria is just the next stop on America’s reinvasion of the region.
Just could not wait to find an exuse to go back to Iraq, and of course, Syria. Well, borders never stopped US — borders are there just we can moralize when others violete them.
Is there any hope that people will again rise as they did before, and say NO to this slithering into new wars, new money spending, creating new messes on this blighted planet. And leaving more destroyed countries, more misery, more despair, more radicalism — to the delight of the NEOCONS. They are clever, one must give it to them. They will manage the sheep, called US population by hook or by crook. They tell us that there is no money for social security. And where is the money coming from for all the adventures and messes? And, we are still FUNDING ISIS, as the funnelling money through Syria has not stopped. It would be very easy to find out where did those Toyotas come from — as they are not some used crappy junk, but brand new. It would not be hard to find out who is the supplier and who paid.
The problem is — we no longer really have press. People who are trying on their own to get information will end up dead. Really, we have no leverage over people who we finance, and had them politically protected and glorified as "revolutionaries' or "rebels", "democracy lovers' who just wanted to have bad Assad tossed out, so that Syria can become another nighmare country like Lybia. Bottom line, this is not a way to provide leadership to the world.
To the delght of Saudis/Turkish and UAE off course they will, you know, these regimes are part of that regime known as NEO CON, or if you will, NEO CONARTISTS, In that order, in th other hand if USG truly wants to fight theses barbarians known as ISIS, they can start helping the legitimate government of Syria.
One would think so, but then again, according to the plan the Libyan, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Lebanon governments needs to be changed becaus us state department, pentagon and WH/English have decided so and Barack Hussein Obama cannot waste any time.
Is this the real reason that ISIS was created? Regime change in Syria? A bit of barbarity will always justify western intervention and the poodles in London, Paris and The Hague are already pushing for it
Recently, over at least two years, the U.S. Agency for International Development – best known for overseeing billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid – sent nearly a dozen neophytes from Venezuela, Costa Rica and Peru to gin up opposition in Cuba. According to internal documents obtained by the AP and interviews in six countries, USAID's young operatives posed as tourists, visited college campuses. Staging a workshop as a front to subvert a foreign government, and risked casting suspicion on USAID's legitimate public health mission, including a more than $3 billion annual HIV program that the agency says has helped some 50 million people in nearly 100 countries. The CIA recently pledged to stop using vaccine programs to gather intelligence, such as one in Pakistan that targeted Osama bin Laden . . .
Search "USA: 5 Billion to Ukraine Recently" and you will find Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State, admitting what the USA has been doing. Note the Chevron symbol in the background of the video. They did this in Syria too, CBS did an article on it before the civil war started there . . .
The USA interfered in Libya . . . . there is now civil war in Libya . . . In fact, you can say repeatedly:
The USA interfered in X . . . . there is now civil war in X . . .
for many different countries . . . Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine . . . I'm missing some, you could write a whole book on this subject, but the point is the USA is destabilizing the World, and then trying to blame others. The USA does it by supporting rogue elements in whatever country they are interfering in with huge amounts of cash, who then overthrow the democratically elected government by force, and are declared legitimate by the USA. Our government is nothing but warmongers destabilizing the World, and murdering many innocents in the process. They lie by omission, and feed the American sheep exactly what Washington wants the sheep to hear. Make no mistake about it . . . . the Washingtonites who are in charge are criminally insane.
Someone once said "The only thing to fear is fear itself." What they meant by that was that if you spend all your time imagining nightmare scenarios, regarding what bad things could happen . . . . you will succumb to it, and end up living it. These people are so paranoid that they probably do not even trust their own mothers.
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
“We’re not going to be restricted by borders,”
Where have we heard that before? Respect for sovereignty only counts if you're Russians I guess.
The War Party will do an end around run to get it's war in Syria. Will they collaborate with the Syrian Air Force or will we hear about Syrian Army installations being bombed with or without apologies? You can't trust the Likud-first sayanims in the State Dept. to act in America's best interests any longer…the implementation of the Yinon Plan for the budding Jewish Caliphate comes first, THEN US concerns for oil, stability, democracy, etc. They want to engender as much hatred as possible for us, just like it is for their racist sh!tbag settler colony that can barely contain it's pleasure and raw excitement for every massacre of Palestinian children. (You read their comments and swear some of the IDF troll Hasbarats are touching themselves over it, bloodthirsty freaks).
We'll see right off the bat if the US is interested in defeating ISIS or the elected gov't of Al-Assad, which has been kicking terrorist ass like mad all this year.
A pragmatic US would work with Assad to oust these head-chopping criminals and thieves smearing Islam for all they're worth; however the concerns of the Israel-first Neocons will probably take precedence – after all, this large, stateless terrorist army didn't just finance and train itself, and even an army of 50,000 needs a support system other than robbing banks, buying Toyota pickup trucks and stealing US weaponry left behind by the Iraqi army. (So the story goes…sounds like a gang of thieves robbing banks across the American Midwest during the Depression).
"This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while."
One of the rare truths from GWB, uttered in September 2001.
Alexander Cockborn named GWOT as the Tenth Crusade in September 2002.
So with Iraq, Libya, Eqypt, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and Iraq again are we nearing the Twentieth Crusade soon?
Recipe for creating inextinguishable, persistently mutating & rabid disaster, also known as ‘bringing democracy’ to the Arab world:
General Petraeus training and arming Sunni ‘awakening councils’ in Iraq.
Stop paying & leave noted ‘councils’ unemployed on exit.
Arrange Sunni insurrection in neighboring Syria, where recently trained & presently unemployed Iraqis can look for a job.
Set up financing and arms to opposition in Syria via Saudi Arabia, courtesy of a Petraeus led CIA (financing by default to the Saudi favored Salafist fundamentalist groups, inclusive of al-Qaida aligned militia.)
Base your operations out of NATO’s Turkey & western democracies’ lap-dog Jordan.
Have your ally in Qatar broadcast a call to jihad in Syria, to millions of Sunni Muslims across the world (why, thank you al-Jazeera!)
Have the CIA, in concert with MI6, DGSE & MOSSAD, contract former special operations forces to assist the opposition in Syria.
Realize too late, fundamentalists who source their training to initial American efforts in Iraq and recently boosted by the new endeavors of western intelligence, have become the most powerful factions in Syria.
Replace psycho-killer Petraeus at CIA with psycho-killer John Brennan.
Back off the effort in Syria upon realizing who will be in control if CIA led effort to overthrow the regime is successful (Salifist fundamentalists, in some cases so extreme as to be disowned by al-Qaida.)
Distract people from what’s happening with the world class CIA screw-up in Syria with new caper engineered by same CIA, in Ukraine.
As Assad reasserts control in Syria, see thousands of well trained fundamentalists pour out of Syria across the border into Iraq, rout the Iraqi army and capture countless tons of American supplied weapons.
When Ukraine distraction has failed, blame Russia for everything.
Fail to realize the eventual assessment of the Christian fundamentalists running the Pentagon will be, the only sensible option is to nuke the Islamic fundamentalists, as well as Russians, Jews, Blacks, cartoonists, author of this comment, women, Gays, anyone who doesn’t believe in literal Armageddon, people who sue the church (especially alter-boys that talk) …
http://ronaldthomaswest.com/2014/08/17/the-arab-s…
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