All of the specifics won’t be available until Wednesday night, but those who were given a “preview” of President Obama’s strategy for the ISIS war say he is laying out a massive undertaking to wipe out the militant group worldwide.
Brookings President Strobe Talbott says that the administration presented ISIS as a “unique danger, not just for the region, but for the world,” and one that the US could only respond to by exterminating it.
What started out as an “emergency” humanitarian campaign to save people trapped on Mount Sinjar, most of whom weren’t trapped there to begin with, has escalated in a matter of weeks into an open-ended war with ISIS that even the most optimistic Pentagon planners say is going to take years.
While he publicly hasn’t confirmed the plans yet, expanding the war from Iraq into neighboring Syria also seems a foregone conclusion at some point, as officials have been downplaying the idea that they could stop ISIS in one country without stopping them planet-wide.
A global war with no strategy for victory and no end in sight certainly wasn’t what the American public were presented with when the campaign began, but White House officials continue to deny that “mission creep” is occurring.
Mission creep has long been a very slow process of escalating the goals of a war, but the administration still hasn’t made it clear that what they’ve set out so far is the totality of the war’s goals, and perhaps more disconcertingly, it’s escalated at a pace far beyond any reasonable definition of “creep.”
The White House tried to pass off the expansion of the war into Anbar as protecting the Baghdad Airport, on the notion that if the Haditha Dam was destroyed it might conceivably threaten the airport, just under 200 miles downstream and not actually built along the shoreline.
But wiping out ISIS in multiple countries and putting something more pro-US in its place is a far broader goal than “keeping the embassy safe” or some other platitude about why the new war was launched, and the scariest part is we aren’t even sure that’s where it’ll finish off, with officials tacking new goals on seemingly every couple of days. Obama’s Wednesday speech will in no way resemble his start of the war speech, and his speech a few weeks down the road will probably be starkly more bellicose, as the war keeps expanding.
With IS the US finally created the "enemy" the weapons mafia wants and that Al Qaeda and the Taliban never became. Executives can look ahead to years and years of juicy bonuses. Will that satisfy them at last? Hardly. So what's Obama's next war?
Russia
"The Arab monarchs on Kerry’s schedule are sure to bring up yet another uncomfortable truth: Virtually any action against the Islamic State inside of Syria will help the forces of President Bashar Assad, whose ouster the United States has demanded for". This news is from Miami herald which you can read it here at antiwar.com.
Although the Miami herald mentions that the ouster of president Bashar Assad is demanded, yet there is no mentioning of who is demanding the ouster of a legitimate Syrian government and Syrians people president.
Meanwhile the USG new partners are Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and some of UAE kingdom regimes that are as brutal as ISIS. These are the regimes that are and still involved in arming the Syrian "moderate" rebels, that is to say if any of them left to fight or those that are left willing to fight ISIS but rather joining them.
This gathering of Saudis/UAE/USG is the very same gathering which started arming, paying, supplying, supporting the "rebels" whom are ISIS now, but by starting the very same process again, they are going to create yet another monster this time with eight heads.
This gathering simply leaves out governments that involved fighting ISIS barbarians, Syria and Iraqi government where people of both nations are suffering, not the Jordanians nor the Saudis or Qatari's; therefore, although on the surface it sounds good but there is something wrong with Obama strategy, plan, which is, they want to have the cake and eat it too.
They simply planing to replace ISIS with Saudis, Jordanian and UAE, Iranian forces which in reality is the same as having the cake and eating it too. The Obama plan is not talking about who is going to replace ISIS when they are no longer in charge of part of the Iraqi territory nor in Syria, is these areas are going to be given back to Iraqi government to control or the Saudis army will be stationed there for years after ISIS goon? the same thing about Syria, is Jordanians hand in hand with Saudis, UAE military going to replace ISIS or would the coalition give back the territory under is control back to Syrian government?
The other question is: although this plan still wants to replace the Syrian government but the question is with who, the "moderate rebels" that nearly don't exists or is it possible that the Syrian people are going to face a Israeli style occupation by Saudis, UAE and Jordanians?
This time around it seams that Iraq and Syria is for grab by those whom created ISIS and wants to replace the Syrian legitimate government/president with those who are the new partners in USG strategy in Middle East, Islamization of entire Middle East.
"there is no mentioning of who is demanding the ouster of a legitimate Syrian government"
That's because nobody is, or could, demand any such thing. Legitimate governments are sort of like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. They sound really cool but nobody's ever actually seen one.
When a nation majority vote counted for a person and when that person elected as president or prime minister and etc, then the legitimacy of a government proven by the people. Respecting such aspects is democracy, disrespecting it is not knowing what the principals of democracy is based on.
USG, historically been demanding, if not directly being involved, demanding for regime Chang around the world, if their illegal activity haven't produced anything then they have used their militarism or CIA to remove that legitimate government using all and every lies and deceit in the book of mafia.
Lately, in terms of Middle East, USG been using Saudis/UAE or if you wish, what is "opposition" of a legitimate Syrian government, those that are THE friends of Saudis/UAE where USG have a excellent economic relation to expend their religious (Sunni Muslim) into Syria where there is no such religious preference over other religious exists.
The Syrian government is the people's government, Syrian people are not divided by their religious nor there is any sectarian hate among Syria people existed until these "opposition/" started blooming like a poisons mushroom with guns in their hands, with non of these "opposition" being supported by majority of the Syrian people, the fact in demanded regime change in Syria still on the table and USG/EU/Saudis/UAE demanding it. In another word, USG politics is about antagonism/favoritism not only to Saudis but also for us war machineries.
The legitimate government of Syria few weeks into creation of Syrian turmoil announced, not once but few time inviting these "opposition" to negotiate and even changed the constitution for that reason, hence, both USG/EU and present English government openly demanded for the president to leave, David Cameron had said" I have news for Bashir Assad, is time for him to go" So is the fact with USG. This kind of Political speech is a demand by those who have a preference social political system when directly or not engaged in regime change. Lately, according to majority of the Syrian people votes, once again they have voted for their government and president to remain and govern the nation.
Barack Hussein Obama's foreign policy in Middle East although is not about militarism occupation but the Islamization of entire Middle East been his agenda, cooperating with Saudis/UAE is more for that reason then democratization of middle east, otherwise Saudis nor the UAE have any other social political to present but a religious dictatorial system; therefore, ISIS by being part of that religious, entity of Saudi Arabia/UAE, the faith column of Saudis/UAE religious militarism regime demanding for his part of the bargaining.to have its own caliphate regime in Iraq and Syria.
You can see a scenario where DC ends up fighting……everybody.
USG and its new partners are going to bomb Syrian military to make ways for their "moderate rebels", if such thing exists. The Obama strategy in fighting ISIS, in reality can become the regime change in Syria as Saudis/UAE demanded, the ISIS is just another excuse for yet another manipulative Barack Hussein Obama's politics.
He ran on, getting us out of all cowboy Bush's Wars because they your unjust and immoral. Why build bridges over there when we can build them here. So what up with this????
Good. this will further weaken and eventually destroy america, the scourge of history.
We are already destroyed. The constitution of gone!