Far from a foregone conclusion of a war that is always just a few weeks from being resolved, Pentagon officials say that the Syrian Civil War could well last for “multiple years” from this point without being settled.
The comments from Deputy DIA Director David Shedd also included a warning that al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda factions of the region, are gaining growing influence and could wind up taking over the rebellion outright as the war drags on.
The comments are being spun as an excuse for US intervention, though of course it can be debated that al-Qaeda already has effective control of the rebellion, at least the fighting forces with a meaningful impact, and that seems like a very good reason not to invade on their behalf.
Shedd claimed “at least 1,200” different rebel factions, with a lot of them small local groups with a single grievance or two. He added that previous DIA predictions of Assad’s ousted in early 2013 had not panned out.
Concern about an Islamist takeover of the rebellion is also looming large in Russia, where the president of the subject Dagestani Republic Ramazan Abdulatipov urged the Federal Security Service to make it more difficult for Islamists in Russia’s southern regions to go to Syria and join the rebellion. Large numbers of fighters from the Caucasus nations have joined the rebellion in Syria, making up one of the largest foreign groups vying for influence.
Woooooooow.., how did they found out, strange isn't it. Its a lost war go ahead and say it.., you actually doing something good for the mankind, if you have enough courage to say it, look you are living in a "democratic" country and your name is not Snowden, for whatever sake…, you are the war machinery in this world, pentagon.
If the US is to intervene in the Syrian war, a dispassionate observer would have to ask just one pertinent question: on whose side?
As long as the public polling in the US indicate a large majority of people against another US – Islamist conflict in the ME there will be little direct (obvious) involvement. The politicians and their pollsters understand that the American people are one breath away from electoral revolution. And ignoring the public opinion might get oft-elected warhawks, unelected. I don't usually uphold the American public as interested enough to object to what the government does but the scale is being tilted now with so many objectionable actions and policies being exposed for the public to see. There is still hope, I hope.
Well, the planned "miraculous" jail break of 6,000 detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by "al Qaeda" could not have come at a more precipitous moment! http://investmentwatchblog.com/breaking-al-qaeda-…
The reality is that no one cares whether Al Qaeda is "empowered" by a US military intervention. Israel isn't seriously threatened by Al Qaeda. Neither is the US. What the Pentagon is saying is what was said in Iraq: if we fight them there, we won't have to fight them here. Which is nonsense, but it will be one of the excuses (already mentioned in the last year) for attacking Syria – to control the results (which is impossible.)
The real reason, as I've said all along, is to degrade both Syria and Hizballah in Lebanon from being effective actors in the upcoming Iran war. But these real reasons will be ignored by virtually everyone – media and antiwar movement alike. They have been so far. Only when the Iran war starts will people finally begin to wake up. But it will be too late – another decade long major war will be in progress costing the US taxpayer half a trillion dollars a year for the next ten years.
A few years back they told us that after killing the numbers 1-2-and3 half a dozen times there were only about 10 "al-Queda" left.
They either reproduce like rabbits or have powers from outer space that we are advised to keep quaking in our boots.
"…the American people are one breath away from electoral revolution."
If they ever got a candidate who would change things, but of course they never will. Our rulers make sure that every election is a choice between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum.
Also, "Al-Qaeda" (or however you spell it) does not exist. It's just a brand name that is applied to people we don't like.