Following Thursday’s missile attacks against Syria, the Trump Administration has vowed to keep the pressure up against the Syrian government, though exactly what that means means uncertain, with officials sending mixed signals on whether they’re going to militarily impose regime change on Syria or not.
In the meantime, they can expect to hear non-stop heckling from various hawks, demanding more attacks and more aggression as a matter of course, and insisting anything short of that would be taken as a sign of weakness by the international community.
And where there is hawkish sentiment to be expressed, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) won’t be far behind. Graham today insisted that by continuing to carry out airstrikes from the base the United States attacked, Syria was telling President Trump “F you.” He went on to demand 5,000 to 6,000 US ground troops be sent to Syria, both to wipe out ISIS and then to impose regime change therein.
Turkey was one of the first nations to ditch a long-time alliance with Assad in favor of calls for regime change, believing it would be bad for the Kurds to have a Sunni Arab government in power there. Turkish officials are also pushing the US to launch more attacks on Syria, insisting that the US attacks on Thursday are just “cosmetic” if they don’t lead to a full-scale war of regime change.
5,000 to 6,0000 new soldiers? Would that include the thousands already there or is this a new wave.
I suppose the Russians could start to actually tell the world through the UN security council exactly what the US has been doing in their funding of Al Nusra Front and who Al Nusra Front actually used to be called, would make it difficult for the mainstream media and more difficult fro the other media to fail to report the US funding of Al Qaeda based Terrorism for years! Just think of the significant problems in Europe because of US caused refugees, NO millions of refugees until the US funded regime change happened! Remember the problem that the Russians caused the US when they made it known that there were huge convoys of oil trucks taking ISIS Oil to refineries, time to tell the world that it was Ergodans son that owned those refineries and that the US didnt attack them because they were being used to fund attacks on the Syrians!
Your comment is very interesting, but we need some background information so we understand how it fits in with current events & U.S. policy. Who are you, how do you know this stuff. What about Sibel Edmonds, and her http://www.Newsbud.com ????? Is there any other Turkey news site in English you reckomend???
You don’t need to know who he is and you don’t need to know anymore than what I’ve told you and him in my message above. There’s no need to complicate the issue any more than it already is, and fall back into the hands of the propagandist pushing for war.
Russia has been actively involved in doing what you are talking about for years, ever since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Are you familiar with the Russian satellite evidence that proved the US deception of the huge Iraqi buildup of tanks and army on the Saudi border that was used by the US to jusify their phony first war on Iraq?
You likely aren’t aware but if you are then you are among the few that are and accept it as factual.
The point is, the cause we need to stay with is breaking through the US/Nato propaganda that is extemely successful with the American people. And the current issue should be in proving that Obama and Putin succeeded in convincing Assad to get rid of his chem/bio weapons. And that the 2013 gas attack and this latest one weren’t done by Assad.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line How about the fake chemical weapons attack of 2013 that Turkey sponsored to get the US to launch a regime change operation in Syria? LOL. Looks like they succeeded this time.
Its impressive that Senator Graham speaks Syrian. And we all thought warhawk Senators were idiots.
War Senators are smart & idiots too.. Not all of them are little princesses after werk hours..
Very true. The entire political system depends on smart idiots and the informed but clueless masses who like it that way.
Its the ‘fragmented logic’ phenomenon, where a reasoning chain is grounded on fundamentally unsound premises, but otherwise consistently and logically pursued nonetheless after the breaks.
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools.” – Douglas Adams
Oh no. Trump goez full Hillary….!!!!!!!!0
Well, at least Raimondo is mostly back. But his new schtick is to make sure we know that nearly everybody who aren’t his political friends were fooled too. And so he does his usual job of trying to alienate the left while having a shot at Obama for good measure.
His lasting problem on Obama though, is Obama avoided war by successfully negotiating along with Putin to have Assad give up his chem/bio weapons.
It appears that issue isn’t going to be raised by hardly anyone now because the answer to the question is critical to finding the guilt for the gas attack and attaching it to the guilty party. And that would be giving Obama and Putin credit.
Doing that is far less important to Raimondo than alienating his domestic political opponents. And we become trolls for staying with the question in his mind.
We’ll have to wait for Trump’s war on Iran and see if Obama’s peace deal can be credited to him. Raimondo will have to maintain it was a very bad deal and so Trump is justified in destroying it. He’ll have most Americans on his side again when he does that!
The only good Obama has done was avoiding war by successfully negotiating with Putin to have Assad give up his chem/bio weapons and sign a deal with Iran. Even on the negotiations on surrendering the chem/bio weapons had to be pushed on O by the American people and Congress, he didn’t do it himself.
I’m good with that explanation Eileen. That’s the best anti-Obama spin that could be put on it if you accept that Assad doesn’t have chem/bio weapons anymore and you don’t accept that he was responsible in 2013.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line Did Turkey give the rebels the chemical weapons for a false flag attack? It wouldn’t be the first time. Did the Turks show up and give the intelligence for this gas attack too? This is all bullshit.