The pretext of diplomacy is over, and the Obama Administration has now decided to be direct about its goal to oust the Assad regime from Syria militarily, according to top officials familiar with the situation.
According to those officials, the White House is now holding daily “high-level” meetings about ways to aid the various rebel factions in the Syrian Civil War, as well as contingency planning for their own military action to seize Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.
The “chemical weapons” invasion talk, interestingly, comes just days after Pentagon officials were dispatched to Israel to try to talk them out of doing the exact same thing, warning that it would make Assad’s position stronger and foster sympathy domestically for the long-time dictator if Israel just randomly invaded and started looting their arsenal.
Likewise, the discussion of more overt aid to the rebels comes despite lobbyists for those same rebels claiming earlier in the week that President Obama had told them he wasn’t going to intervene directly until after the US election in November.
The narrative surrounding what the US is or isn’t going to do to impose a regime change in Syria isn’t necessarily following a straight line, but this endgame is largely in keeping with the Obama Administration’s recent strategy of feigning interest in a diplomatic solution while undermining it until it finally collapses, then insisting they are reluctantly moving toward unilateral action, a strategy Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been very open about using against Iran, bragging that the “negotiations” were only being used to forward sanctions, while other officials said that the sanctions were also going to eventually fail, leading to a full scale war.
It looks more likely that these people are determined to start WWWIII.
Its called "Plausible Deniability".. So "Plausible Deniability" isnow being abandoned.
See also Saturday's (21/07) comment by Israel's 'Defence' minister Barak that Israel has to prepare for invasion of Syria.
I just wonder how the US would react if say Russia said that they were going to forcibly remove the Israeli Government!
I'd like to see Russians actually fly in tanks and ground troops. What would the US, Israelis and Saudis do then? They've done the same and are doing it now. The UN (fig leaf of lies that it is) is used as a rubber stamp for Uncle Scam when he wants it so lets toss that damn institution aside for the moment and consider Russia, or China for that matter, unilaterally doing what is in THEIR best interests and crushing any further "springs". Sauce for the goose. I say this not because I'd like to see further war but because it would put the kabosh on the lies we've daily been fed.
It must end it that, eventually, or something very like it. The world has never in history tolerated this sort of thing indefinitely.
It would be better for all concerned if the US enforced a regime change on the Israeli right wing, rather than waiting for balance of power to overtake events.
Someone please remind me why people are still being 'polite" to these assholes? You'll see an occasional protester squeeze into a room where there is one of these monsters giving an update or news brief and they are ALWAYS polite. Like when McGovern upset Hilary Clinton speech once…when she was talking about one of the "arab spring" nations. They need to be publicly told that people hate them and call them traitors…use foul language. We're dealing with a large group of psychopathic personalities.
We are not getting anywhere. How long has Anti-war been involved in getting out the truth? hundreds of truth sites and we aren't any further in stopping this as before. Something is not adding up! Could it be that the truth sites have gotten too big and ego oriented…too much like MSM.
I agree, way too much deference is given to these ultra-violent killers. "President Savior Bush, Mr Peace-Prize Obama, Lady Hillary Clinton, Mr Lover of Public Safety Panetta." How about, "Mr Gentleman Jeffrey Dahmer, Honorable Lover of Justice Adolph Hitler, The Peacemaker Pol Pot, Protector of the Fatherland Joe Stalin." I would really like to use some foul language to describe them, but….
America, the new Soviet Union where "Truth" is what the Feds say it is.
One government declaring that it wants to topple another government is pretty much the definition of 'war. And of course, if we are following the Constitution at all any more, is done by Congress not the President. But, I guess its been pretty obvious for years now that the Constitution is ignored, except when it can be pulled out to do something like give corporations 'rights'.
Congress also is very much part of the problem.
Israel simply blackmails Whole World and especialy US…Its not Assads regime, but Israel, its regime and foremost the most embarising mistake UN made when granted to "group of people" part of foreigh land. Humanity will deaply regret this fatal mistake. Who could expect, that relative noble idea for WW2 victims will go so horribly, horribly wrong… Instead of "model place with love" "monster behind any control" was born ..and now what???? Internacional comunity should make drastic changes in Israel, destroy its illegal WMD, punished fanatical rabbies and evil leaders, put UN force to protect Palestine and dismantle IDF – at that very moment people in ME will found road to lasting peace.
Instead, partner in crime US secretly supports any crime against humanity Israel wages and end of this tragedy may really be WW3…..peter czech
Mankind has to work on Israels regime change for its survival….that is a fact and most people know it, even in Israel peter czech
Geez, any ideas how to topple our own government, anybody?
Trying to "vote the bums out" doesn't seem to work.
Relentless political pressure. Daily phone calls, letters, etc. Make their staffs mad, and exhaust them. Eventually they will see the light. Since it doesn't matter who we elect, they always end up doing the same damn thing, then don't bother voting. Start calling them on it.
I don't suppose they're holding any "high level" meetings about the consequences of regime change in Syria, right? I mean, can we really expect them to think more than one step at a time?
Maybe it's time for mental giants in the White House to ask themselves what a post-Assad Syria would look like. His replacement could very well be worse. But as long as Israel thinks it's good for them, all other considerations are summarily ignored.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a regime change in Washington? Let's replace this collection of warmongering fools with some real adults that understand the limits of government power. Unfortunately, Romney isn't that person.
We are screwed.
Why do they call them rebels when they are mercenaries? The Americans fighting the red coats could be called rebels. Rebels participate in rebellion while mercenaries are guns for hire. A few monthe ago they had a vote in Syria and Assad got 87% of the vote. These rebels are financed by the CIA, NATO, the Mossad, Saudi Arabia and other gulf countries. Is someone trying to make what they are doing "legitimate" to cover their own goal?
"Why do they call them rebels when they are mercenaries?"
There's a certain amount of question-begging inherent in calling them either.
It's almost certain that some of them are in fact native/indigenous "rebels."
There's a high likelihood that some of them are foreign, US/NATO-financed "mercenaries," while others are likely foreign ideologically motivated "revolutionaries."
Of course, there's no reason that any given person couldn't be a "rebel" (WordNet: a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority) for pay, or for ideological purposes, without being a native Syrian, so the first term seems to encompass the other two.
you do have to wonder ..though…
why anyone would give their lives for the US/israel alliance
The Great Game continues and once again Persia and the "stans" are the battlefield. The real conflict is and will continue to be with Russia and now China. After the US and Russia/China exhaust themselves through conflict, Israel will be there to pick up the money and openly dictate to the world.
The usual Good Cop Bad Cop song and dance of lies. Barack is a master of this. His supporters should already know that if they'd simply stop letting him regularly bend them over for another "lesson".
Yes, Ehud Barak made the order. He is the US Sec. of Defense,
and Bibi is the US President.
I almost think I'd resent the government's lies less if I thought they knew they were lying. It's creepy how they seem to believe their bs.
They know full damn well what they're doing. There is no NOT KNOWING about it. So start resent them all the more. They deserve it.
diplomacy was just a head fake. How stupid do these clowns consider us to be?
Assad should warn that if either Israel or the US attempts to seize Syrian's WMD arsenal, then both Israel and American forces in the ME are fair game.
1 of these days ….1 of these days….
the US gov is going to get bitten and bitten bad
sticking its nose where it does not belong