Yesterday’s reports that the US was ruling out arming Syrian rebels were apparently untrue, as the US State Department says today that the option is being kept open, and that “if we can’t get Assad to yield to the pressure that we are all bringing to bear” the arms option would be considered.
Serious speculation about direct US armament of Syria’s rebel factions started on Sunday, when Sens. John McCain (R – AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R – SC) insisted that the rebels “deserved” US weapons. McCain added that the US could use “third world nations” to funnel the weapons in to retain deniability.
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey had seemingly put the kibosh on that yesterday, saying that it was “premature” to start talking about arming factions in the nation.
Today’s comments from the State Department, however, suggest that “premature” could have been referring to a matter of weeks, and that the idea is very much being considered as one of the ways the US could intervene in the nation.
so we're just not talking about all the arms, training, tactical intelligence, general aid US/qatar/UK/Turkey supplied to the rebels all of last year? come on jason, you can't still be 'unaware'
During Bush regime the idea in fighting the "US enemy" was something like this: The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and if I can’t have it then there shouldn't be anything for anyone to have. This policy is live and doing well with Barak Hussein Obama and his cabinet members. They are willing to arm any terrorist groups to keep the enemy of democracy not letting the process of any move by the Syria government toward democracy to even start, so they are not letting anyone to have anything done. So as they did in Libya or for that matter in Iraq they are creating conditions where the country turmoil turns into a disaster y feeding these idiots. Although to some extend there are reports that US and Turkey is all ready involved in arming some of these group and even training them in Turkey and along the Jordan border to Syria but thats only a report, the truth of the matter is that non of the governments both in Europe and US are interested in having any form of democracy in the region, if that was the case they wouldn't support the Saudis nor the UAE demands for regime change in anywhere, these regimes are not based on democracy nor they have any idea how it works so it is easier for US and EU to support dictatorial regimes as well as apartheid regimes then democracy or the one that wants to implement the idea. So to those of US or EU university professors and others who preach for US and EU Arming these terrorist groups you have no idea what you are talking about, you have no idea where this matter will end but is comfortable to get paid hourly by CNN and others to advocate the idea of both Bush-ism and Neo fascism.
I would think that in a rational world, the first step towards maintaining deniability would be not to go on national tv and talk about doing it. Silly me.
Personally, I've long since learned that where there is death, destruction and mayhem somewhere in the world, if you look closely you'll find american made weapons on one side or the other. We are the bad guys from a James Bond movie.
These people are dying… why shouldn't someone arm them? Are we all just sitting back and watching – or maybe not even watching, denying that it's even happening?
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/syria…
'Foreign journalists killed' in Homs shelling: Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik reportedly killed in Bab Amr assault as activists warn of humanitarian crisis. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/02/…
If you went to the first link, you would have seen a report from Marie Colvin…
The US/Englan/Israel have been arming the rebels. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/214641.html http://www.albawaba.com/news/report-armed-groups-…
This is what they did in Lybia. This is what the "Arab Spring" is all about. This is what they do.
See this link with Wesley Clark.
They have been planning this for years, in the name of "humanitarian aid".
You, ummabdulla, are either an establishment stooge or a braindead sheep, falling for this PR show.
Why are you on this site?
Hey ummabdulla, there is enough false propaganda going around here. Please do yours somewhere else where your audience has the same mentality as yours. Thank you.
Don't worry Jason is aware and so are all the rest of antiwar. When poor old Eric Margolis questioned the obvious facts of 911 he got frozen out of antiwar's??? news cycle and now everyone can see as clear as day what the antiwar??? agenda really is. Just go to poor old Eric Margolis site and read him trying to come to terms with the cognitive disonance. Listen to Hiliary Leveritt trying to explain why Al CIAda is now best of friends with the "friends of Syria'' and Bel Haj is beating up Syria not assisting the demonstrations in Latif although al CIAda claims to consider the revolution in Saudi as their main objective. It's all so obvious now.
US interference is not new. In the 1940s and 1950s, we tried to change regimes then too. The result was a hostile reaction that led to such events as the 1958 Lebanese crisis, the UAR, and eventually the rise of the Ba’ath Party and Hafez al-Asad. What this time has that sixty years didn’t is the “cold war” we are having with Iran. Syria in and of itself is not the concern–in spite of the tear filled eyes of news reporters and horrified government officials. Freedom and democracy are not elements of our foreign policy that has backed as villainous authoritarian governments as Asad’s. What is the policy is hegemony in the Persian Gulf region and its oil. Whereas the vast majority of Arab sheikdoms have made their obsequious genuflections to us, recalcitrance on the part of Iran presents a obstacle to be removed. As part of plan to reduce Iranian influence, the fall of its only Arab partner–Syria–is a first step. What should be insulting to us is the fact that we are aligned with al-Qaeda in this effort to overthrow the Syrian government. Many of the “freedom fighters” are Salafists who gladly went to fight our troops in Iraq just six years ago. Everything from September 2001 from the tragic deaths to the Iraq and Afghan wars, the dead and wounded soldiers, the loss of our freedoms under the Homeland Security measures, to the trillions of dollars spent that help to bring our economy down are now all for nothing. We are now in an alliance with those who harmed us. Our enemy’s enemy should not be our friend.
It was not the regime of Assad who started this mess, it was not him who started this war, but it was Saudis and UAE with US and EU who started the falsified democratic uprising in Libya and now Syria.., look what's happening in Libya then judge the situation in Syria. Libya is divided by tribes and cults, Libya is governed by bunch of terrorists and other elements whom are supported by EU and US mafiosi government stealing the peoples of Libya wealth. Look at the history of wherever US and EU militarism regime is involved. From Iraq to Afghanistan and now Syria, the disrespect that these regime are forcing on the people everywhere, the killing of innocents peoples from Fallujah to night killing of children in Afghanistan, from Abu Gharib prison in Iraq to Bargham military air force in Afghanistan, to pissing on daed Taliban in Afghanistan, to falsified democracy at play in EU and US and the lists of US and EU brutality and racist nature of their foreign policies goe’s back to Vietnam and Korean war.
Look Syrian war is not about democracy, the Syrian government have done and will do everything it can to implement a NON IMPORTED a FALSIFIED democracy for the Syrian people, it is the Syrian people who needs to understand that these regimes and their PREDICTED DEMOCRACY are NOT based on implementing democracy in Syria, t is not heir intention if that was the case why there is not about regime change in Saudi Arabia or for that matter Arab Emirates, why there is millions of homeless people in America, if their idea in democracy have a function for their own people then they would have respected the principals in democracy by not being involved in wars for last 60 years, they would have made their own social system to work for the people, they would demanded the regime change in Israel, a apartheid regime that looks at Arab nations as a secondary or third mankind. Get your head of where ever it is and look at the picture, who is benefitting from all this, who is behind all this and why. Certainly it is not the Syria people which benefitting from all this.
The US/Englan/Israel have been arming the rebels. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/214641.html http://www.albawaba.com/news/report-armed-groups-…
This is what they did in Lybia. This is what the "Arab Spring" is all about. This is what they do.
See this link with Wesley Clark.
They have been planning this for years, in the name of "humanitarian aid".
You wonder why Antiwar.com is not meeting its quota?
Because it has failed or it has been taken over.
I use to contribute, but NO MORE!!! Not until they get their Sh!t straight.
Let see if they even post this.
This whole problem is nothing more than an Israeli attempt to destabilize Syria
and to limit the Assad government efftiveness in aiding Iran once war begins with Iran.
“McCain added that the US could use “third world nations” to funnel the weapons in to retain deniability.”
Fantastic. A U.S. Senator publicly teaches our government how to lie to the world. Do I see any missing dignity and honor?
It has become obvious that Anti-war is now a cheer leader for Al-CIAda and all the rest of warmongers. F-ck warmongers and their cheer leaders.