The Obama Administration has had a private turn-around on the situation in Syria. After years of pushing rebels in general as an alternative to the Assad government, the US is now keen to expand their new Iraq War into Syria to attack the largest of those rebels, ISIS.
The US has even taken to sharing intelligence with the Assad government on targets, which is quite a turn when less than a year ago they were pushing hard to invade Syria to oust Assad.
The Assad government is eager for US aid, but wants it publicly. The US has ruled out doing so, and is now considering, among its options, attacking both ISIS and Assad targets to avoid tipping the scales in Assad’s favor.
It’s a preposterous idea, but would be in keeping with the long-standing US policy of arming the rebels enough to keep them from being overrun without ousting Assad outright. If the US goal of keeping Syria a calamitous warzone remains intact, officials could decide that just bombing everybody is the simplest solution.
The stated US goal of wiping out ISIS would make preventing Assad from getting more powerful than them all but impossible, and would ensure that the US war is not just open-ended, but permanent.
This is an insane policy! Joseph Heller is rolling in his grave, because we have an even more absurd concept than Catch-22!
Sure, since America's/Israel's goal is to annihilate the populations of all these countries through never ending war.
Although it sounds like USG going to bomb Syrian troops while they are bombing ISIS, the question is, who would gain if anything but ISIS. Most of the moderate or otherwise rebels in Syria are either defeated by the Syrian army or by ISIS and joined ISIS.
This is just another idiotic politics conducted by those which their intellect is limited to what is today, unable to see tomorrow, those whom although might have a degree from certain university they still struggling to understand what history is about and to learn from it.
Refusing to see the truth, being truthful, honest in their judgment is what's been missing in their carrier, so, one after other deceitful politics, they still will continue with a new one. Their politics although is a wrongful direction but changes as they change their dirty shirt to a new one without washing the one that they just changed, with Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, McCain, Bill Clinton is a matter of a far right highly questionable "democratic" values which if they only were committed to the principals, they would not allow Saudis, AIPAC nor the UAE to dictate the USG politics.
This would fit how the US defined a no-fly zone in Libya — there can be no defenses about to resist total air dominance.
If the US does NOT cooperate with Assad, then Assad's air defenses are a threat. The US doesn't permit that where it bombs.
Therefore this is a very likely outcome, just following the logic of US bombing.
Humanitarian convoy into Ukraine = Russian aggression
Bombing everything in Syria = US responsibility to protect
Russia is a long time supporter of Assad,what a thrill would it be for Obama by killing “two birds with one stone.” With Netanyahu supporting the rebels in the Golans and Obama attacking in the north,Assad days are numbered.
War is big business for the USG regime. Bogus free-trade agreements like NAFTA
and GATT have gutted the United States of its traditional jobs. The regime has
turned to the only two options remaining. 1) Shipping weapons everywhere on
the planet. 2) Warehousing it's black and brown youth population in the USG
Prison Industrial Complex.
The American people have allowed themselves to be fooled too often but this will not escape the proper airing it deserves. The American people have already stated that they are not interested in invading Syria and told Congress fairly clearly. If Congress allows the Administration to pursue its course of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria then with the election on the horizon Congress will hear from their constituents. Even the lackey press will be up for the ever-popular game of "gotcha" when they demand the Congresscritters defend their non-stand against expanding war when they are on the stump preaching the opposite.
John McCain must be SO happy with this idea. In past wars, only one side would get bombed.
Perfect!
Been telling you people for two years now – in order to have a war with Iran, Israel MUST degrade (or at least attempt to) both Syria and Hizballah in Lebanon in order to avoid having to potentially deal with their missile arsenals in an Iran war.
This has been the goal of the Syria crisis all along. Obama was ready to attack Syria this time last year over the bogus chemical weapons false flag attack, but that fell through when Putin out-maneuvered him (which by the way is one reason Obama is starting a new Cold War with Russia.)
So it's no surprise to me that Obama intends to attack Syria one way or the other, no matter what kind of contortions he has to go through.
Samantha, Rice and Hillary will have something to cry about before bombing it to smithereens,
That should take their mind off Ukraine where analytic minds are supposed to work, not neurotic harpies.
Now we just need to occupy The Magic Pretzel Prez and NATO's Foggy Ras before they start pushing red buttons. Lapdogs Canada and UK can be discounted as they follow the leader whatever happens.