With sectarian spillover from the Syrian Civil War continuing to boil over in Lebanon over the weekend, Syrian rebel fighters attacked a group of Jordanian troops along the border, killing one and suggesting that yet another nation bordering Syria is going to be affected by the violence.
With Syrian rebel factions increasingly filled with Sunni Islamists from across the region, Jordan has been struggling to keep fighters from entering Syria. Today’s incident was such a situation, with the fighting breaking out as Jordanian troops tried to keep the fighters from entering Syria to join the war effort.
Incredibly, the US State Department condemned Syria’s Assad government for the fighting between Jordanian troops and anti-Assad rebels, saying “the onus for this kind of violence rests squarely on the Assad regime.”
As Syria’s rebellion has grown its fighters have flocked to border regions, primarily around Turkey which is openly backing them, but also to the borders with Jordan, Lebanon and even Iraq, which has seen a major increase in violence in the border areas over the past few months as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) gets a shot in the arm from the regional religious unrest.
normally a headline should cover the main content of an article. But in case of Jason Ditz headlines, the opposite is the case – as if hiding the truth would be the aim.
The right headline would be "USA gets problems at all borders to sent its foreign mercenary armies into Syria"
And how the sub-headline "US Blasts Syrian Govt. Because Rebels Attacked Jordanian Troops" makes sense actually?
Even with the given lies or hiding that the rebels are clearly controlled by USA it makes no sense to blame Syrian government for things the rebels, their enemies are doing.
It is completely nonsense!
And Lebanon has been on the USA war list since 2001:
USA planed a long list wars, acc. to former US general and deMOCKrat US presidency candidate Wesley Clark:
more detailed:
US " war against former soviet client states" :
There is no point making sense out of this. I just do not know what are we waiting for? How many more people need to die for the arrogant idea that we can manage the conflict between mercenraries and the govnerment, without that having any spillover effect.
And it is possible that the complicit Jordanian government did this ONLY to pretend to wash its hands. Now it can say — not us. While mercenaries are probably alrady sent accross border. So, if suddenly the rebels occupy some other helpless places along Jordanian border, it will be Jordanian fault — they cannot pretent to have clean hands.
Jordan is riding the back of a tiger. With over 50% of population being Palestinian, they may get some "freedom fighters" of their own and within their own borders. It would be better to keep as far away from this hornet's nest.