One week in, the UN-brokered ceasefire in Syria seems to be holding. That doesn’t mean the Obama Administration can’t dream, however, of a day when the ceasefire collapses and they can use it as an excuse to attack.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta says that the administration is looking to last year’s Libya war as a model for intervention in Syria, but that this depends on being able to secure international support for the attack.
This is likely to be much more difficult because of Libya, as many in the UN Security Council didn’t realize that an authorization for a no-fly zone in Libya would quickly snowball into a war of regime change. There is no illusion this time, and those opposed to the war have been careful to reject any nebulous language in UN resolutions specifically to prevent the US from starting this war.
Further complicating the “Libya model” is what a disaster Libya is actually turning into, with the rebel factions NATO installed at the end of the war engaging in wholesale human rights violations and fighting one another, seemingly on the verge of a new civil war at any given time.
In the meantime, US officials aren’t waiting for the ceasefire to actually end to escalate the rhetoric, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanding a new round of sanctions against the Assad regime and a full arms embargo to punish it for “non-compliance” with the ceasefire, even though by all accounts the ceasefire actually is still in effect. Clinton conceded that the resolution is almost certain to be vetoed but as usual didn’t appear to understand why.
The Pantsuited One–that sanctimonious fraud who's impersonating a Secretary of State–and the warmonger Panetta are beyond the pale.
Libya model? That would be seeking regime change rather than protection civilians, killing more civilians than supposedly killed by the Syrian regime, supporting opportunistic defectors from the regime, supporting Al Quaeda supporters, allowing Syrian arm weapons, including SAMs to get into the hands of terrorists and looting the country.
All so that the dream of a Greater Israel – including the illegally occupied Syrian Golan Heights – can be realized. No matter what the cost to America, Israel, Syria, the ME and the world…
US/Nato interventions where ever they happened in the worldinvariably turned into dissasters. However it may well be that that is exactly what they want, as it is precisely what Israel is after. War and disfunctional devided states guarranttees Israel's existence, but of course only temporarily.It will eventially be Israel's inevitable demise. When ? That's any ones guess, but one thing is sure it will happen soemtime.
But Syria is an ally of Iran and an enemy of israel. Destroying the Syria state is worth it to the israelis even if it appears to empower al-Qaeda. Right now the Syrian military and intelligence services via control of Hizbollah are a problem for israel so their destruction serves israeli interests in a major way. And American policy in the Middle East serves israeli interests first and foremost. US attacks against Syria are coming. Bet on it.
I am not sure what the Libyan model happens to be. Is that were you destroy a nation to steal its natural resources and then set up elections. IN the case of gaza if you do not like those that get elected do you follow up with a brutal blockade to starve those people in electing those that you wanted. Democracy is the answer as long as it is controlled by the bankers.
OOOOOOO So many skeptics, casting aspersions on Neocon "Creative Destruction" the smash and grab of the new millennium….
IT's all about taking by force what doesn't belong to them. Stealing, I think it's called. Or theivery. Something like that…
And in November American voters will be voting for the premier of Israel – oops – for their President – aw heck – just as well be the premier of Israel as the US is occuppied Israeli territory under control of the very insane war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
At some point, the American people will surely wake up and realize that all these wars that are being fought in their name, and for which they are paying a trillion dollars or more a year in taxes, are doing absolutely nothing to improve their lives.
There is absolutely no reason for the US to go to war with Syria. Syria is only slightly more violent in putting down its protesters than the Obama administration is in putting down movements like the Occupy movement.
Whenever you see politicians talking about either human rights or terrorists, hold on to your wallet tightly. Because that's always a sign that they are about to come steal more of your money to pay for the next ridiculous war which will not benefit you in the slightest. And which while it will do nothing at all to protect you, as Syria is not a threat to any American in America these days, it might get you killed as the sons and brothers and friends of those we kill in war after war have a way of striking back at us poor Americans who do nothing but pay the taxes and put forward the blood of our children to support the deranged delusions of people like Hillary, Obama and Romney.
"In the meantime, US officials aren’t waiting for the ceasefire to actually end to escalate the rhetoric"
Of course they aren't waiting. The cease-fire is merely a tactical pivot upon which to swing the intervention. The outcome, by the way, is completely irrelevant to the Zionists and the FedGov, because the resulting anarchy will be exploited as an opportunity to kill, maim, destroy and steal with relative impunity.
america/britain/france/clinton are f-rting against thunder Russia/China will not allow this to TAKE PLACE right under their noses.All yankee “presidents are war criminals.
(Edited–Angela Keaton)
Bring home all the troops..NOW…START WITH SOUTH KOREA..