This weekend the Obama Administration has abandoned the last shreds of the pretext of diplomacy, and top officials familiar with the situation say that they are now being direct about the idea of ousting the Assad regime from Syria militarily.
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 comes despite Pentagon officials heading to Israel late last week to try to talk them out of an invasion on the exact same pretext. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated today that Israel is “ready” for such an invasion.
The Pentagon argument against an Israeli invasion centered around concern that an Israeli attack would shift popular opinion within Syria overwhelmingly in favor of Assad as a foil to the foreign invaders and the Western-backed rebels. Interestingly officials don’t seem to notice that the exact same argument applies to a US intervention.
The sudden Obama Administration interest in intervention also comes just a week after claims from pro-rebel lobbyists that President Obama had told them he wasn’t going to be able 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.
"Obama Administration has abandoned the last shreds of the pretext of diplomacy”.., is there any other alternative…, for US militarism regime with a president who wants to have yet another war under his name, dose these people understand what democracy is about or how it works, do these people have any respect for democracy and its principals…., the answer is NO.
This US administration works the both ways, one is for Israel the other is for Saudis and UAE.., however, there is a third not much seen elements that they are working for as well.., You guessed it, the British monarchism with its Neo liberal fascism regime.
The beginnings of WW3 are happening before our eyes. This is live.
The eastern block dissolution was a deathly treat for US defense industry. They had to organize a 30 mill sex campaign against Clinton, till he did rise the defense budget and began the list of wars and regime changes USA did plan since 1991:
1. USA did plan wars against near and middle east and NorthAfrica & Syria long ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DJ–Z3lvaQ
more detailed:there is a time window of 5-10- or more years "for war against former soviet client states" in the middle East and North-Africa withouot Soviet intervention:
(Since Mr. General plays peace dove in this speech, his personal war as commander in Jugoslavia has been "forgotten".
2. "peaceful unarmed civilians were armed from the beginning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vLd_9c4WOU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCqmI1SQB5o
Advanced US anti-tank weapons from war lord Obama to its Syrian terrorists: http://www.debka.com/article/22017
3. US-organized fake/orange/colored revolutions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=lpXbA6yZY-8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2XyIKHX1k
4. what happens in Syria is an "us army unconventional warfare" USA wars, are fake "humanitarian wars" and work this way:
Sending death squads, blame the government murderer, call the death squads freedom figthers, which than gain victory with NATO airforce by carpet bombing any resitance.
It is just a Special Forces Unconventional Warfare (UW):
The intent of U.S. Unconventional Warfare efforts is to exploit a hostile power’s political, military, economic, and psychological vulnerabilities by developing and sustaining resistance forces to accomplish U.S.strategic objectives." or: "There is another type of warfare —new in its intensity, ancient in its origin— war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins; war by ambush instead of by combat, by infiltration instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him. It preys on unrest."
source: Training Circular No. 18-01, United States Army, John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Oct. 2011, search USArmy-UW.pdf at publicintelligence. net
5. Huge majority for Assad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt9A5rMqEDM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlgDXP411w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYQkUl-xwH0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSb0lxFcMn0
6. the real "brutal dictator": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8P6860vIiA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4ZZ-yXaOQ
7: Media fraud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x–Td_8JXYk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfW7LUhA_t4 http://corporatemediaexposed.com/everything-theyr…
Syria – ABC News (AU) expose the lies of Reuters, ABC and other Medias
8.one of the many clear involvements of foreign extremists:
Father sells his (second) son as suicid-bomber to BABA AMR in Homs, Syria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuGhi-WlBEU gelöscht – neu: watch?v=CcywcdZnyNw watch?v=EktowweKxfg IN ARABIC WITH ENGL. sUBS:watch?v=aXgQSKxnY3U
Syria, CIA supplies Terrorist Death Squads with Thermobaric Chemical Nuclear Weapons (New evidence that CIA and western intelligence are supplying the terrorists in Syria with shoulder fired munition containing chemical, thermobaric and radioactive warheads) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N3tiaTYhpk
!! Lizzie Phelan about the media conspiracy against Syria watch?v=FQdG6uAZimk
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Al Jazeera journalists quit channel, citing bias on Syria coverage (Agenda setting, Beirut Gen.Manager, Reporters etc. many censorship re. Bahrain, terrorists) watch?v=x–Td_8JXYk
How can a website calling themself antiwar bring such a friendly picture of this hypocrit and mass-murdering top-war-Lord of the world ?
Where are the real antiwar websites in USA? Have been any antiwar organizations dissolved?
Antiwar is only interested in smearing the Western power cabal. Dictators, tyrants, are okay so long as they oppose the West.
You meant to say "dictators and tyrants are ok as long as they appease the west."
Saudis, the UAE the English monarchs so as other monarchism the brutal, the dictators in this world are the real power of the west, west is only protecting them to say that they are a democracy, so Antiwar.com is only there to expose the facts made possible by the west democracy, the western what is called “civilization” for last 60 years has been at war, wars for last 60 years is one of the issues, the brutality and the west murderous attitude is yet another. The truth hearts no matter how it was said, or is going to be said.
diplomacy was never theirs to trade
Come on Obama…fighting terrorists in one country, supporting them in another?
I love how everyone on “Antiwar” bashes the Israeli treatment of Palestinians, the Baharaini treatment of their subjects, and the Saudi brutality (which they should), but is just peachy with Assad’s brutal repression and tyranny, because he mouths anti-western slogans while he does so.
Obama made an open threat to Syria this evening. It gets more like Hitler and the Nazis every day.
"Plausible Deniability", as it is know, has been abandoned. The point has been reached where it is abandoned.