I’ve been away from all news media and internet for one day and wow. Just read three articles from Debka and the situation sounds critical:
1. What comes first – a Syrian chemical attack or a US-led military showdown? US, Israeli, Jordanian and Turkish special forces are on the ground in Syria, armed with special gear for combating chemical arms. They are close enough to count the convoys carrying poison gas weapons, augmented by US military surveillance satellites and drones able to pinpoint their position at any moment.
2. Assad’s last warning to rebels before using chemical weapons. West, Israel on high preparedness.....The danger that Syrian ruler Bashar Assad will now resort to chemical warfare shot up Saturday afternoon, Dec. 8, after the rebels captured the “chloride factory” at Al Safira east of Aleppo. This is a code name for the Syrian army’s biggest chemical weapons store and base, which also houses Syrian Scud D missiles armed with chemical warheads adjusted to fire at Israel.
3. Assad’s troops, more chemical arms move northwest, Iranian arms airlift rerouted to Palmyra........ US, Turkish, British, Jordanian and French forces are standing ready around Syrian borders for the order to go forward still to come from US President Barack Obama. Syrian President Bashar Assad is regrouping his army in defense array in strategic parts of Damascus, while planting mines and bomb traps in abandoned bases. Convoys carrying missiles, shells and canisters armed with chemical and biological weapons continue to ply roads to the north, while the airlift of Iranian arms is rerouted to northern air bases.
“—regrouping his army is defense array-—” Assuming that’s reasonably accurate, and it seems to be from both mideast and Euro news reporting, then Asshat isn’t going anyplace. If all you have the horsepower to do is “go defensive “ then you are next-to-done. Ask Hitler, ask Tojo, ask Sadam, how those fixed defenses worked out. Making yourself a fixed target just makes the math easy for the range finders coming your way. These mideast bungwads are really big on stock piling weapons, and the Russians are happy to sell them the stuff, but they never really have any transport to do anything important with them. Yeah, Asshat might light a couple fuses and do some random damage but he’s done for.