The “Eager Lion” military exercise in Jordan was already used as a shoehorn to get US Patriot missile batteries and warplanes into the country, but with the drill finally coming to an end, the US dropped the revelation that 700 combat troops, supposedly sent there just for the two weeks, aren’t leaving either.
Instead, President Obama has announced that those 700 troops are just going to stay in Jordan, along with the about 300 that were already there, right along the Syrian border, until some unspecified future date when the “security situation will allow for their departure.” This means an open-ended deployment of 1,000 troops overall to the cusp of a warzone.
The whole “Eager Lion” drill centered around the notion of attacking Syria, and keeping the US combat troops who participated in that drill will only underscore that fact, and the prospect that they may march in at any moment.
That the whole drill pretext was centered around the Obama Administration’s announcement that they intend to directly arm Syria’s rebels and officials are constantly raising the prospect of direct intervention.
We said it before.., USA and EU wanted to have a missile defense system stationed somewhere in Europe.., they couldn't get in Poland then tried Chek but with Syrian war they were able to get it in turkey.., now they have a military base in Jordan.., don't be surprised if they start talking about to station a missile defense system in Jordan or to expend the amount of solders coming from Afghanistan into Jordan. That was Ronald Reagan plan to occupy Lebanon.., this time is Obama and is Jordan.., what is different.., is time. The idea is to protect Jordan king and Israel.., they have use for the king for now.., later to invade Syria or if the war is totally lost then USA would have a military base for the hell of it.., after all that's what USA is about.., a militarism regime supported by an falsified democracy feeding the vulture capitalism idea in world domination.
DID THE US CON..GRESS APPROVE THIS?
"Colonel James B. Hanke, USA Special Forces (ret), former attaché to Israel and a top US intelligence officer has confirmed that no such meeting had occurred, nothing of the kind had been discussed and that the story itself is a serious security problem for the United States:
“This is Bloomberg, caught with their pants down lying about Russia’s delivery of the S 300 missile system now caught again lying about an American attack. We certainly have a basis for investigating those behind this hoax as being involved in not just espionage and but even treason.
Secretary of State Kerry has been a strong opponent of US military involvement in Syria. Not just that, both Kerry and Dempsey are totally aware that the Russian built S 300 system is fully operational and that the US would lose aircraft in such an attack, even if the US supported such an attack, which it doesn’t.
There was not only no discussion of bombing, the idea of it is absurd, a fantasy clearly demonstrating that Bloomberg has a dangerous agenda and that reports of high level leaks are, to an extent, also hoaxes meant to sell an intelligence “psyop” war against the United States.” "
"From highest-level intelligence sources at the White House:
“We are ‘staking out’ Jordan, we have to. It’s the ‘high ground’ in the region. After the fall of Al Quasar to Assad, Al Nusra, a ‘nasty bunch’ began moving on Iraq. They were kicked out of Syria, weren’t prepared to go against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Jordan didn’t want them around.
They immediately began a terror bombing campaign in Iraq’s cities. Maliki saw this ploy and moved even more troops to the Syrian and Jordanian border.
We have to be prepared to back up Iraq from the other side, this is one of the reasons we left forces in Jordan.
Allowing a cross border civil war on engulf both Iraq and Syria would overshadow even Bush era military blunders, something previously thought impossible.
Technically, we are supporting both sides in what is now a regional conflict. We can only hope this begins to sort out in Geneva.”"
The little effing PlayStation King of Jordan needs to overthrown just like Mubarak
You can bet the US is there more to prevent Abdullah's tenuous grip on power more than anything else
Well, a mere 1,000 troops aren't going to be marching into Syria. What they WILL do is support the air campaign that will begin probably by end of the year, if not sooner. Expect at that point for those troops to be expanded to perhaps 10,000 or even more. The initial 1,000 troops will be gaining intel and planning for subsequent operations by the larger force.
My guess is those troops, besides controlling refugees and the like, will be supporting the Israeli division that crosses into Syria territory on the way up to enter the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon from the right. It's possible the US troops will assist Israel in clearing a corridor through Syrian territory. In essence, the US may try to establish a "buffer zone" in western Syria through which the Israelis can cross to get to Hizballah in the Bekaa Valley in addition to the Israeli invasion through Southern Lebanon.
US troops won't actually be "invading" Syria. The US and NATO will rely on airpower to take out and pin down Syrian forces so the insurgents can gain ground. But the real goal will be to take out Syrian missiles and enable an Israeli invasion of Lebanon to take out Hizballah.