With a planned meeting with Syrian rebel officials scheduled for tomorrow, Secretary of State John Kerry says imposing regime change in the nation remains “front and center” in foreign policy discussions, and that the US is considering “stepped-up” aid to rebel factions.
Kerry and other foreign ministers keen on throwing more funding at the rebels will be meeting with Ghassan Hitto, Texas IT specialist turned “prime minister in exile.” The meeting as with many others, is expected to include calls from the rebels for advanced weaponry at a minimum and from their perspective ideally a full-scale NATO invasion to install them as the new government.
The push to arm the rebels will be somewhat tempered by the announcement by al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) that they have merged entirely with one of the largest rebel factions, Jabhat al-Nusra.
US officials haven’t commented on how that merger will play with their plans to intervene more on behalf of the rebels, but French officials have warned against making any hasty decisions to stop backing the rebels just because they have turned out to be part of al-Qaeda.
We invaded Iraq and Afghanistan to rid them of al-Qaeda and now we are funding them in Syria?
I guess the 911 excuse for war has expired.
Look people: for any American president to be elected the capitalism system needed to have something in return.., for them to pay the Democratic Party or the republicans.., many senators are paid by a company which doing what they are asked to do in senate, president roll is larger then a domestic contract for a airport or a highway.., they asking for a country as Johansson the Vietnam and support fir cop de Etta orchestrated by Henry Kissinger in chile war, before him the Korean War, later Bill Clinton war in Balkan, Bush regime Afghanistan and Iraq war, Barack Hussein Obama Syrian war, all that is a lack of democracy no matter what these political parties calling themselves, your government have and is going to abandon you totally.., 9-12 million and rising homeless is a social fact where you see them every day.
Beside all the social issues, these people are sworn enemies of a functioning democracy.., if they were not you wouldn't se a single homeless man or women or a family and many of the unemployed would be working instead of government paying the oil companies with people's money.
While social security benefits are being cut to American seniors. Seems like the same people run both parties.
So Assad didn't fall as quickly as the empire had hoped so now it's present mouthpiece proclaims more aggressive "aid" to those on the forefront of "state-sanctioned terror"? So if the Russians or Chinese bankroll freedom movements within the Amerikan imperium how are the dolts in DC to complain about it? Sauce for the goose.