The White House today confirmed its intention to escalate the ongoing air war in Iraq into neighboring Syria, saying that they have to “take action” against any threats against Americans, no matter what nation it is in.
The Pentagon began talking up the expansion of the war on Thursday, with Gen. Martin Dempsey saying that the Iraq War was virtually unwinnable without going into Syria to target ISIS too. Officials have made clear that’s exactly what they’re going to do.
Publicly, the US has repeatedly downplayed the risk of escalation, amid complaints of mission creep, though in the period since beginning the air war they’ve repeatedly added new goals and are setting the stage for a much longer, much larger war than anyone bargained for.
The administration is now presenting the Syria expansion as something they were forced into, though the reality is that upon starting this new war with ISIS it was already obvious that they were going to be expanding it across borders, and are continuing to move closer to announcing a ground operation alongside it.
Wow, the U.S. is going to make war with two nations with just one bomb! This has got to be a first.
It won't be quite clear in Syria what is ISIS and what is someone else. We'll bomb rebels. We'll do that while we support rebels too.
It will be an easy step then to bomb Assad in Syria, once we are bombing in Syria. Those doing this bombing wanted to bomb Assad before. They supported the Israelis bombing his forces.
There is no real line here, once we go over the border, and clearly we are going.
It's a big war now. Bin Laden wins again, from his watery grave.
Ostrovsky commented, “The point of all these Israeli operations is to convince Americans that they’re in the same boat as Israel [fighting Arab terrorism].” –Richard A. Curtiss; ; further discussion in Michael Collins Piper's False Flags .
The world must raise their voices against axis of evil, US – Israel- Britain not to do this because ISIS is creation of Israel/US to balkanize the region and implement the ODED YINON PROTOCOL to partition the regional states by puting one against the other. The Kurdish terrorists, Peshmagre, are part of the axis of evil working for Israel and US. Behind all these CONSTRUCTED WARS is the plan to create kurdistan, SECOND ISRAEL, to help Israel to survive and erect "greater Israel" from Maurithania to Afghanistan. The Kurds are working with racist Israel since late 1950's. The Kurds are spying for Israel since 1968 against Iraq, Iran and other countries for Israel. Expose the kurds as spies of Israel in the middle east. ISIS is the creation of US/Israel to divide the regional states including Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon, Turkey and many more to create Berber state, kurdish, sunni, and other stooges. We never allow SECOND ISRAEL in the region. The kurds must reliaze that due to their spying for Israel since 1960s, they are not trusted and are viewed as enemy of the people in the region. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics…
The warmongering class – neolib and neocon "elites" – have been looking for an excuse to begin bombing in Syria since the "he's gassing his own people" ploy failed. "Stuff happens" during the fog of war, and if Assad should happen to be hit by a drone strike, well…stuff happens.
What "threats against Americans"? Wall Street? Israel? Saudi Arabia? The neocons? Dempsey should be looking there.
Sadly, they don't even have to explain anymore.
Arabs are circulating this on social media. It says: "ISIS, the movie. Genre: horror. Starring: Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Written by: Israel. Director: UK and US. Set design: Turkey. Scenes shot: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt. Film proceeds: oil and theft of people's resources and strengthening Israel in the Middle East. http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2014/08/isis-movie….
Very good!