While all the combatant factions seemed to get sick of the Syrian ceasefire at about the same time, US officials are trying to make it clear they hold the Assad government exclusively to blame, with the White House demanded they “live up to the commitments that they’ve made.”
Secretary of State John Kerry singled out Assad as to blame for the “chaos” in Aleppo, where a flurry of tit-for-tat attacks on civilian neighborhoods have killed some 250 people, saying he is pushing for Russia to do something about the situation there.
The reality of the situation, however, is that in Aleppo the fighting has been between the Syrian military and the Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda faction deliberately excluded from the ceasefire. This makes all the fire being traded there not subject to the ceasefire, though with both sides killing civilians almost exclusively, it is increasingly unclear what anyone expects to accomplish from it.
The US-backed rebels have pushed the narrative that any firing on Nusra is a “violation” of the ceasefire, because the al-Qaeda affiliate is so closely allied to several Islamist factions that are party to the ceasefire. That clearly was never meant to be the case, and indeed the rebels had already abandoned the peace talks before the Aleppo firing started, only using it as a retroactive excuse.
We shouldnt forget that Al Nusra Front was in fact one of those original funded by America you remember the group that Senator John McCain was photographed with saying that we should fund these people to overthrow Assad! Yes that would make Senator McCain recommend funding Al Qaeda or an Affiliate because prior to 2010 Al Nusra Front WAS Al Qaeda in Iraq who had a name change just before the US began funding them with non lethal aid like rations clothing and training! But who are now supplied with the likes of TOW anti tank missiles and the like! Now we have America still supporting groups affiliated with Al Nusra front they being Al Qaeda means that the Us is working directly with Al Qaeda affiliates, and we shouldnt ever forget that ISIS is a breakaway albeit the larger force from Al Nusra Front and neither are moderates whatever the US claims in relation to Al Nusra Front!
Every time I read a story about Syria I wonder how Trump would handle the situation to “make America great again.”
Kerry can be vocal about it and project the strength of the US in that way but as far as taking any kind of military action to rectify the problem, we know the Obama regime isn’t going to do that.
A peaceful status quo has been established in Syria which is preventing allout US led war. In fact, Putin and Obama have schemed together to make it quite impossible now. Russia and China won’t allow it and hold the MAD threat over the US. That’s definitely progress!
Likewise with Iran. The Obama admin stepped into the negotiations with Iran and became a part of the peace process with the nuclear deal. It’s a valid deal and it’s holding. Now the US can’t do anything about it legitimately because Iran is being seen on the side of right and the side of peace. And the European parties to the agreement are solid on it’s success.
But now let’s get back to Trump and consider how he’ll make America great again by dealing with what he and his hawk party see as a bad deal.
Or even Clinton and how she will deal with the stalemate that has been created with the subversive and traitorous Obama regime? LOL
Most people can be sure that Clinton is going to scuttle this deal with Iran but this appears to be the start of an invitation to Trump to get into the discussion. Sooner or later he’ll have to!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-iran-sanctions_us_5728dc4ce4b096e9f08f46b3
And so he’s stuck with having to offer his supporters some dog whistling because there’s no way his supporters are going to be supportive of the good deal that the Obama admin was a part of and which is guaranteed to keep the peace as long as it holds.
Trump will feel safe in coming out as a hawk on Iran as long as Clinton is too! He will because his supporters will want him to do that to “make America great again”!
this situation is so fucking stupid. everyone knows that the provocation for all of it was a soros funded “uprising” to incite regime change and a false flag chemical attack using turkey as the supplier. Putin should invade totally, clear out all non Syrian forces, seal the borders completely, and let them rebuild.
John Kerry needs to be struck by lightning or eaten by dogs already. Id pay to watch him be eaten alive by fire ants.
Obama probably chose Kerry because he was as good as it gets with the Dems. Not what Obama wanted but it didn’t really matter because Obama was in charge and Kerry was defanged by Obama anyway. And Obama, along with Putin, have snookered the US out of having the pre-planned PNAC war on Syria. And the good part of it is that it’s off for the foreseeable future because Russia and China now sit in the cat’s seat and on the side of right with Assad. Assad simply and gleefully accepted Obama’s red line and agreed to get rid of his chem/bio weapons. And he did!
Likewise with Iran. The US has been screwed by Obama for years to come and that probably means forever. Iran is on the side of right and Russia has their back.
Sometimes we at antiwar.com have something good to talk about and those two incidents are examples. Even though most antiwar people are so fu–ed up by their racist hate for Obama that they can’t see the forest for the trees.