With the war against ISIS still in the process of being built up, administration officials are already planning for the post-ISIS war in Syria, and they intend to play a role in that as well.
Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed that right now there is “no higher priority” than disrupting ISIS, but said after that ousting Syrian President Bashar Assad would be “needed.”
And that’s going to be a whole other war, with Kerry saying Assad’s “reluctance” to give in to US demands to resign means “military pressure” will almost certainly have to be used in ousting him.
Kerry has been pushing for a war against Assad for years now, and while he was unsuccessful in trying to sell that war in 2013, the 2014 ISIS war seems to have put US military assets into Syria after all, and set the stage for a second war.
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I'm sure that dealing with IS is going to keep these geniuses busy for a while before they get to destroy another country.
Such an inflated god-ego — From where does it spring?
Because a bunch of white Jews from Europe invaded Palestine and changed the name to Israel, is this why Empire USA claims the right to rain bombs down upon non-white Muslims throughout the Middle-East?
Surely, bigotry, greed and brutal exceptionalism all rolled into one.
Has Secretary Kerry heard of the ban on non-defensive war in both the UN Charter and the Nuremburg Principles? When has Syria attacked the US, threatened the US or even vaguely talking about attacking the US? Kerry and his boss President Obama are doing precisely what German and Japanese political leaders were tried, convicted and hung for at the end of WWII. They deserve precisely the same treatment under the very international laws which the US rightly took the lead in establishing at Nuremburg and in the UN Charter. President Obama, as a Harvard law graduate and constitutional law professor at Chicago law school, kindly explain to the American people why you and Secretary Kerry should not be tried as war criminals?
We've been told to hate Mr Assad for so long that I can't even remember the reason why. Maybe he failed to extract enough confessions from Maher Arar.
Mr Arar, a Canadian citizen, was kidnapped by the US border goons in 2002 while Mr Arar was travelling home via NYC. Uncle Sam then sent Mr Arar to Syria to be tortured. No US official was ever charged in connection with this horrible crime.
Could someone please tell me what Assad is accused of doing wrong.
I have yet to read any sensible article which lays out Assad's faults.
The US looked sent in arms along with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to topple Assad. I guess it just got a bit out of control for their comfort level with the whole Islamic state thing. After all this all started in 2013. This is when the US began arming "moderate" sunni rebels. Actually if you follow the news cycle you would realize that the US "began" arming "moderate Sunni" rebels about every 3 months up until today's date. LMAO. In all seriousness though Syria, Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia all operate outside of the US empire's control. That have not been sufficiently compliant enough to the US empire's demands. The empire feels if they can overturn Assad it will make it impossible for Hezbollah to receive arms from Iran and Israel will be able to destroy Hezbollah and take over Southern Lebanon. The US will then encircle Iran and embargo it like we did Iraq before we invaded and destroyed it. That seems to be the plan as far as I can tell.
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Assad has done NOTHING worng. He defended his country against terrorist states such US/Israel/Britain, Turkey and Arab reactionaries. All the 'leaders' of these countries waged war on Assad and Syrian using their proxies. According to International Laws, all these war criminals are guilty. They have killed more than 250000 Syrians with 4 millions refugees. All these activities is considered CRIMES AGAINST HUMANINY where the responsible persons, Obama, Ordugan, Kamaron, Netanyahu and saudis, qataris, and the rest must be arrested, convicted and EXECUTED. The world cannot take the criminal acts of these criminals even one hour. The world is SICK of them, Execute them all.
Imagine the outcry if the Chinese government DEMANDED that the US President resign and an Chinese puppet be installed instead. After all, the US President (USG) has a verifiable history of terrorism and war crimes – he must go. The likelihood of that happening is….nil.
Pandora's Box has been opened and the whole friggin' world has gone bonkers.
Millitary pressure is needed to oust you and Obama regime, and bring down the biggest terrorist state of america baby killer and war criminal. ICC is consists of pimps.
This confusing horseface. What's wrong? The "moderate" rebels we were told were going to oust Assad and we were also told are a fantasy, effortlessly turn into ISIS or some other terrorist group once they have our weapons and money, they kill or get killed by other armed groups, the Syrian Army (who should, in a sane world, be our ONLY ALLY in this fight – as we know the ACTUAL army of the country is the only one to be trusted), or have a blast killing Muslim and Christian civilians.
There is a lot to be said for the stability in the region brought about by the paleoconservatives of the last generation. Largely secular strongmen did not allow religion to permeate politics to such a stupid and destructive degree.
Kerry's Skull & Bones indoctrination calls for perpetual war.
A human life means nothing to this dangerous individual. His
allegiance is with his puppet masters behind the New World Order.