Officials confirmed the move toward surveillance flights over ISIS targets in Syria, leaving somewhat open the question of when the US is going to start launching airstrikes against targets inside Syria, expanding the Iraq War across the border.
Yet it’s not really a question of if, but when, as the surveillance flights are clearly the first step toward such attacks. The primary question is how to start launching such attacks without Syrian coordination, since officials want to avoid the appearance of cooperating with Syria.
The questions abound about expanding the war into Syria and are mostly unanswered, with Gen. Dempsey pushing the attacks, and the US already giving targeting intel to Syria’s government for the ISIS war.
Escalation in Iraq is continuing, with the Anbar Provincial governor talking about planned US deployments there. Nothing’s been confirmed yet, but the US seems eager to expand the conflict in several ways, turning the “humanitarian intervention” into a full-scale war spanning multiple countries.
Thanks so much Jason, and Antiwar.com! I have had to go way out of my way in order to hear sanity on this latest military incursion. Ever since the US entered this conflict in Iraq, I knew I could count on Antiwar.com to provide the scoop that so many other outlets refuse to provide, who are instead just opting to parrot the government's line.
I most certainly agree. Please spread the word!
The US may not want to coordinate with Assad, but the USAF and USN don't want to fly at risk of his SAM's either. Israel's flights over Syria have been major operations, in which a single strike gets massive support to suppress and evade defenses. We can't do that every day for routine ground attacks.
So the choices: 1) we lie; 2) we coordinate through someone else, as we already have using the Germans; 3) we attack Assad too, to make our flying secure as we did against Gaddafi.
Now we always lie, we already work around using the Germans and we could use others, and our hawks have wanted to bomb Assad for years with inconsistent support from Obama.
We could do anything. There's no telling. The one thing we will NOT do is what we say now we will do.
C'mon Jason, you can hit harder than this. How about some examples of the rank criminal insanity of the USA security apparatus. Especially the fact of the Pentagon is Christian Taliban central…
http://ronaldthomaswest.com/2014/08/24/the-islami…
^ The cartoon reality is quite evident, your organization needs a serious lampoonist 😉
Feel free to volunteer your services. Your comment not withstanding antiwar.com IS the premiere site for the TRUTH.
Exactly why do the Russians not undertake such aerial attacks on ISIS positions? After all many ISIS troops are Chechen and Russia has an Islamist problem on its doorsteps as well.
Assad would definitely not oppose russian attacks and he could be sure those attacks are not the precursor to covertly "reanimating" the factually dead FSA
What is the USA doing in the Middle East again ? I thought it might be greed, so I'll stick with that one.