The US is moving close to direct military intervention in Syria once again, but this time focusing on ISIS, not on the Assad government. Having long cynically armed the Syrian rebels against Assad, with a lot of those arms going to ISIS, they’ve changed their allies of convenience.
Now, reports have the US providing targeting intelligence to the Assad government against ISIS, in particular giving them intel on the location of ISIS leaders.
The reports say the US is funneling the intelligence to Syria, still officially an “enemy,” by way of Germany’s BND. The changing narrative is likely to go public eventually as well, however, with Syria hoping for a long-term rapprochement.
The great thing, from the Syrian perspective, is that they don’t actually have to change their behavior, and they can go from a nation the US is angrily condemning for its brutality to a US partner in the war against the newest enemy, in the newest US adventure.
With talks of US military intervention in Syria growing, the US would no doubt prefer to have Assad on board, since then they can claim to be operating “at the request” of an ally, even if it’s a enemy-turned-ally for the sake of war.
The wild-card in all of this is Israel, which has for awhile been touting ISIS as preferrable to Assad, on the notion that Assad, as a Shi’ite, is closer to Iran than ISIS would be. It’s only in the past few months they’ve really even started acknowledging ISIS as a problem for them.
US officials are also touting the Assad military’s airstrikes having killed Abu Mosa, an ISIS press official. It wasn’t so long ago the US was griping about every Syria airstrike, regardless of the target.
Bizarro world just tilted on its Axis of weasel.
I had no idea about this:
"The wild-card in all of this is Israel, which has for awhile been touting ISIS as preferrable to Assad, on the notion that Assad, as a Shi’ite, is closer to Iran than ISIS would be."
If this is indeed true Israel needs to be held in account with its role in the rise of ISIS.
Its about time for barack Hussein Obama to recognize the fact that it is not the Syrian government that is the enemy, nor the Lebanese or the Iranian or the Iraqis, the real enemy of humanity is the fifth column of the Saudis/UAE religious barbarians, the real enemy of the man kind with their falsified religious as their weapon, a Stone Age caliphate regime where in present civilization there is no room for such barbarism.
The west needs to get rid of the Hezbollah complex. Hezbollah has proven to be the force fighting the Wahhabi terrorism and also the Zionist terrorism. The whole mess got out of hand when the west backed by the Wahhabi gulf supported the terrorist opposition in Syria in order to please Israel.
why does it need to get RID of them..sounds like they were doing the right things
I believe the poster is expressing that the West needs to get rid of its complex regarding Hezbollah.
Smells like disinfo to me. More likely that the US will hit SAA forces and infrastructure 'accidentally' while allegedly striking ISIS baddies.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Yes, and did you listen to the 60 minute hate on Meet The Presstitutes this morning.
Sorry it's Summer in the upper Midwest but not for long, so many of us missed it. Do you recall any details?
You didn't miss anything, just the usual hate mongering in the direction of this week's "enemy". With Gregory now gone they've got yet another of those blonde anchors so prevalent on cable taking his place. One of the "panel" or "roundtable" stupidly tried to compare an alliance with Assad against ISIL to the one we had with Stalin and the Soviet Union in WWII, you know an alliance with evil for the sake of convenience. Just another example of ruling class historical literacy. These filth absolutely nauseate me.
Assad should tell THE insane imposter O'BOMBER–STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE !
This suggests that Assad might trust the US.
This suggests the US won't also bomb Assad's forces. Certainly the Israelis will continue to do so, with our help.
It is to be war of all against all. A bar fight on a national scale.
Kind of looks that way…except for the blind US obedience to Israelis demands. Once the USG sheds the Israeli yoke, then it's a free-for-all….and there will be no winners, just losers.
Yes, the only thing that will give this brawl direction will be Israeli interests. Sniff long enough in the next few weeks and you'll pick up the stench of their objectives.
what hits me is the number of people that have joined that isil group of nut cases
Well, think about the hell we forced these people to grow up with. Think about what you've lived through at the hands of the US & the West if you're a 25 yr old Iraqi. We've given the entire region psychological trauma.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell
I haven't tuned in to the TV this morning…has McCrazy and Grahamcrackers completely flipped out over this "aiding and abetting" of the enemy Assad yet? Or have they finally realized that there is no such thing as moderate Syrian rebels/terrorists?
When the aim is war for the sake of war, then it's all a mess.
If true this is a huge development that could lead to the end of the artificially pumped up Syrian civil war. The U.S is going to have to get the big donor Saudi Arabia to back off to truly end the war. And Assad may find the U.S. turning on him once the ISIS threat is reduced because the last I read is Obama is still insisting on $500 million for "moderate" Syrian rebels.
Anyone who thinks the US is now going to treat Assad as a brother is nuts.
The end goal of all of this has always been to get Syria targeted for airstrikes, so Israel can invade Lebanon again, all of which is to set the stage for war with Iran. Israel requires both Syria and Lebanon to be degraded so as not to be effective actors in an Iran war. One way or the other this is going to happen.
I see no evidence that goal has changed. It's just been a very round-about path to get there. It almost happened this time last year, but Obama was outmaneuvered by Putin (which is one reason Obama has restarted the Cold War with Russia.)
Even if Assad allows US airstrikes to occur on Syrian territory without opposing them, sooner or later this will backfire on him, as the US uses these strikes to further map out his air defense systems and occasionally bomb them "by accident"…
Well then, exactly what is the goal of our Empire, for first it was to destroy the most criminal sectarian government in the Middle-East, but now our chosen victim we proclaim to be the most evil theocracy the world has ever known.
Why , it ‘s almost as if trading war materials for Middle-East oil is the best money maker the Western powers have ever known.