Last week, reports out of the Obama Administration suggested that a wholesale reconsideration of the ISIS war in Syria was going to be changing the near-term goals toward the ousting of President Bashar Assad.
Now, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is conceding again that Assad is “indirectly benefiting” from the war, even though the US doesn’t mean for that to happen.
It’s not like this is a secret, as the US war has been targeting ISIS and al-Qaeda, the two largest foes of the Assad government, and even though there hasn’t been “direct” coordination with Assad on the attacks, there’s been plenty of support for that move among Syrian officials.
It increasingly seems like the whole hype about changing the war toward ousting Assad was a PR ploy, as President Obama also made comments on the matter.
Obama sought to duck the question at first with comments about regime change, but when asked point-blank if the US was “actively discussing” how to remove Assad from power, he conceded they are not.
US war goals and actually policy seem starkly different in the current war, with no real idea how any of their goals of installing a non-existent Syrian rebel faction in power might be brought to fruition.
Glad to hear. Too bad the USG still feels the need to talk a bunch of nonsense only to please the neocon audience/media.
USG have lost every channel wanting to change the Syrian government, those that are left are either running to enjoy ISIS the saudis barbarians or into turkey taking refuge in turkey and becoming special guests of Erdogan regime. In the end and if USG wants to defeate ISIS there is no other alternative but to leave their idea in changing regimes in Syria and Iran alone, while at it, start helping the Iranian, Syrian and the Kurdish people army to defeate these barbarians.
Maybe the internal contradictions of Obama's Syrian policy have become too apparent, even to our European friends, to swallow. But I'm not convinced that Obama (or our next POTUS) won't go after Assad then Iran once ISIS is degraded sufficiently. President's never publicly admit mistakes.
This is step one in a new and great improvement to our economy, for the oil rich nations must first explode their bomb stockpiles before we can sell them replacements, the Islamic State is awash with newly captured high-value targets and explosions unlimited here we go.