With the US having officially transitioned its ISIS war narrative away from “advise and assist” to direct combat, officials are already talking up the idea of various unnamed European countries launching their own ground wars in Syria too.
Gen. John Allen (retired), the outgoing ISIS War Czar, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that he expects European nations to “become more kinetically involved” in the ISIS war as time goes on, and that the US was already courting nations to get a presence at Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter conceded that there had so far been no actual instance of any of the European countries expressing any formal interest in joining a ground war, but insisted that it “stands to reason” Europe would eventually join the war.
“The Russians are going to start feeling some serious pain on this,” Allen added, underscoring that the US war against ISIS is increasingly driven by a desire to one-up Russia in their own, more recently-launched war.
Although European should and responsible for Syrian war, but they rather stay on the corner and look at what others do rather then being involved, that is simply because they are sick and tired of being under directives of USG making mistakes after another. European people have enough of their own Hippocrates to deal with, specially now when even the Neo fascism is on the rise.
The real problem in Europe is that the US promised to defend us and systematically sabotaged every attempt to create an independent European defence structure. When Putin called America's bluff in Ukraine, Obama ran for cover. The EU is big enough and wealthy enough to build up a defence capability far beyond anything Putin could ever have, but that will take a few years. (A similar problem occurred with Hitler in the run-up to WWII.) If the US won't defend Europe, nobody can force it, but it cannot leave us in the lurch in Ukraine and then expect European countries to waste precious defence resources fighting (yet another!) unwinnable war against an insurgency. There has to be give and take.
“The Russians are going to start feeling some serious pain on this.” Why do these people talk like some of those dressed up clowns in a silly Marvel comics movie?
They should be forced to wear such costumes. Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys once stood for office on the ticket of getting cops to dress in clown suits, and came a close second in the race. The concept could be extended to all figures of authority, really – and ill-fitting superhero costumes for warmongers sounds about right.
I'm wondering how much of our hard earned tax dollars
are used to bribe these countries.
The "deal" basically will be "get Putin out of Ukraine and we'll help you in Syria". The US cannot refuse to defend Europe and then expect Europe to help it in wars elsewhere. An insurgency can't be defeated militarily and what's encouraging ISIS to fight is seeing Putin thumbing his nose at the US, first in Ukraine and now in Syria, and getting away with it. As long as that situation continues, ISIS will see no need to negotiate and will see the war being waged on it as America's last desperate throw of the dice. First, inflict on Putin a defeat so unequivocal that even his American supporters cannot spin it into a victory, then start negotiating with ISIS. That's the only order in which the thing will work.