Having lost the battle for a Congressional authorization for war and now facing a Russian offer of Syrian disarmament as an alternative, all the public signs are that diplomacy is threatening to break out with Syria, and there will be no international intervention.
Behind the scenes, US meddling continues apace in Syria’s civil war, and the CIA has now begun delivering lethal weapons and combat vehicles to rebel factions in hope of turning the tide of the conflict in favor of more nominally pro-US factions.
The US has been threatening the move for months, and has been engaged in intensive training of rebel fighters in neighboring Jordan. The fighters have reportedly begun to cross into Syria, with an eye on attacking the capital city of Damascus.
The State Department has presented the arms as a way to improve not only the fighting ability of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), but its stability as well. The reality, however, is that much of the rebellion remains opposed to the FSA, and that faction will be either buying the loyalty of al-Qaeda fighters with US arms, or fighting against them.
Jordan supporting terrorist training camps? Obviously need to bomb them. Drones might be appropriate; some might split up and escape to the capitol… gotta get those-that-harbor-them. 28 August CNN article: "Through it all, al-Assad and his government have consistently said that its forces are targeting armed terrorists funded by outside agitators." What a peculiar lack of weight JMSM gives to the obvious: it certainly is, and it certainly needs to. Perhaps unlike the US.
Assad fall, Al-Qaeda take charge of the country, America is at war with Al-Qaeda, It’s a terrorists organization, America decided to put boots on the ground in Syria to get rid of the terrorists, after all they are a threat to America national interest and will become a threat to Israel. Obama won’t even need a vote from congress to occupy Syria, that’s what is about to take place in the near future.
The international banking community should be sanctioning those countries that support terrorists. Given the Syrian rebels now are dominated by al Qaeda, there is no way the false dichotomy 'freedom fighter' can apply. So I look forward to the US economy being sanctioned until the US terror-supporting regime is brought under control
/The US aim all along to destroy Syria like Iraq/Afganistan rears its murderous head all for the sake of the Zionist entity with all the might it will not happen there are new kids on the block now.
No "international intervention"? I guess Czar Vladimir's Mafia Regime, the Mollah Regime, and Lebanese Hezbollah Terrorists don't count? How cute.
You are the most idiots of them all by presenting your fascistic idea in relations to your Arian race.
Unlike the US,Russia and Iran have relations and treaties with the syrian govt including i suppose assistance when attacked -illegally.. the syrian regime is the recognised sovereign power…..no other is.
the us and its friends have arrangements with terrorists-and have committed acts of war by supporting terrorism and invasion of another sovereign nation…. that is the difference between the two sides- international law.
genuine opposition figures are divided and many if not most do not support outside intervention and prolonging this war which incidentally is not qblout human rights but gas pipelines, certain countries geo political interests like israel and also saudi who uses religion to brainwash tools like al CIAduh…
fueling the fire with more arms only increases the murder/carnage…. which only delays reform. i
while assad may be bad in many ways and whether he stays or goes …it is up to the syrians alone…..no interloping from the US and friends under the false flag/hypocritical ruse of R2P.
They are no "Syrian Rebels" – they are US/NATO- mercenaries from any Arab or Muslim country worldwide – even Arabs from NATO-countries.
This is a proxy-guerilla war of USA/NATO against Syria and this is proofed here:
http://08oo.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/key-reasons-…
War criminal Obama*s terror fighters already provided 100,000 deaths, more wounded and 5 millions of refugees. And media sells him as humanitarian peace nobel prize winner !
Terribly disgusting and dangerous this system of lies.
The CIA arming (rebels) it admits are jihadists, with links to al-Qaeda, will make an already bad situation in Syria even worse. Looks like the US is up to its (old) game of divide and conquer. A strong and stable Syria is a threat to the rogue state of Israel. The US/Israel goal is to keep the conflict in Syria going until both sides kill each other off. The US backing these rebels who for the most part are foreign fighters, will hinder any chance for a peaceful solution to the conflict.
We knock off Sadam in Iraq, a Sunni dictator, the Saudis (Sunni) very unhappy. We protect the Shiites in Iraq as they elect a Shia government supportive of Iran. The Saudis really unhappy. Saudis, flush w/our oil and gas revenues see an opportunity to sponsor a Sunni (religious lunatic) government in Syria via an AQ (Sunni) led insurgency while f – – king w/Iran. It's part of a grand scheme involving Chevron, BP, Shell, etc., good friends of the Saudis, to spread their lunatic version of Saudi Wahhabism across the ME. And we help whenever we can. Have we billed the Iranians for turning Iraq over to them?
As JCOS Dempsey said, in not so many words, these people (Sunni and Shia Muslims) have been killing each other for thousands of years. They are dedicated to it …. like lunatics. We will not dissuade them because god is on both of their sides.
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Does anyone believe this started just now, and not more like two years ago?
"Having lost the battle for a Congressional authorization for war…"
Did that happen? I thought Obama just kicked the can down the road a bit and Congress simply hasn't voted yet. Nothing has been resolved.
It's frustrating to me that almost every article, even the anti-war ones (not only on this site) treat overt US naval strikes as "war" when obviously the rogue executive branch has been at war in Syria for some time now and has been using US taxpayer dollars and personnel to conduct this very real war that is aiming at regime change. Would we really be telling the 10,000 Syrian refugees who leave the country daily that the war party's been defeated and America's war has been averted?
This is just to show the double language, face and moral politics presented by USA government, they are looking for this war to continue no matter what.
The US, to show its good faith, should stop arming these mercenaries.