Posted on 10/30/2015 12:17:43 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
President Obama is directing the Pentagon to send special forces into Syria to advise the Syrian opposition in its fight against ISIS, the White House said today.
The change will station U.S. special operations forces on the ground for the first time in Syria in its fight against the Islamic State after thousands of airstrikes in the past year produced mixed results, although their mission is expected to be primarily advisory.
The change "is consistent with strategy to intensify the battle against ISIS,†a White House senior official told ABC News.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
“We’ve been aligned against both ISIS and Assad since 2004.”
And to what effect. This has been an incompetent cluster of bad decisions and worse execution.
Who’s running this? Susan Rice?
Russia has obtained Iraqi authorization to take out ISIS; Russia certainly has the Syrian Government's permission. Why on earth, if he even pretends to care about the safety of our armed forces, would Obama inject the best and most competent into a war zone that we are unable to effectively manage, when others already present appear to be up to the task?
“al Baghdadi” was reportedly captured and later released from a US prison camp in Iraq, you know, to go on and form ISIS and eventually take out the baathists who temporarily allied with him against Maliki’s (Shiite) govt in Baghdad
“al Baghdadi” was the torturer rapist and murderer of US hostage Kayla Mueller
“al Baghdadi” was targeted by a Russian(?) air attack on a convoy near the Iraq/Syria border heading to a meeting several weeks ago, his second in command and others were killed.
“al Baghdadi” reportedly survived the attack, reported was taken to a Turkish hospital (perhaps one run by Turkish PM Erdogans daughter) and non mainline reporting indicated he was later transferred to a “US medical facility/Bethesda”
NFI
“al Baghdadi” the Emir of the Caliphate, torturer, beheader, sex slaver, rapist, obviously has friends in very high places. There are several pictures published of him in meetings attended by Senator John McCain
“...advise the Syrian opposition in its fight against ISIS”
Ummm....wouldn’t those ‘opposition’ forces be fighting against Assad. You know, the fellow they ‘oppose’.
Why on earth would they fight ISIS, who are fellow travelers that also oppose Assad.
To protect John MeCain’s “moderate” terrorists, no doubt.
Well gee whiz, why don’t we give out the 8 digit map coordinates of our SpecOps forces while we’re at it—we wouldn’t want the enemy to get lost now would we?
When they put US troops into cages and burn them alive, will he go golfing?
It looks like al Qaeda didn't get your memo
wrong on many fronts
For beginners Assad is not a sunni, is not a friend of Sunni’s, Turkey or Saudia Arabia, home of al Qaeda (which is why they all want to kill him) and the younger Assad, since being elected 3 times since 2000, has followed his father Hafez al-Assad’s long time path of being aligned with Iran
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator John Kerry engaged in “parallel diplomacy” in contradiction of the Bush WH policy of treating Syria as a state sponsor of terror, and Pelosi and Kerry each with delegations visited Bashar al Assad in 2007, calling him a “reformer”
ISIS split from al Qaeda and emerged from Iraq and set its sights on a global caliphate when the seeds of Arab Spring were sowed by Barack Obama following a speech in Cairo, a major policy shift by the WH to embrace the muslim brotherhood and an apparent strategic policy decision to back sunni extremism as an mode of toppling secular regimes held together by strongmen like Qadaffi, Mubarak and Assad
Hence we have NOT been “aligned against ISIS”, we have tolerated or abetted them as a tool of destruction aimed at Assad and a counterweight to the Shia govt in Iraq and Iran
Egypt and Assad did not fall as they were expected to do
Barack Obama, the first “hold muh beer” President.
“hold muh blunt” - maybe
Wasn't it something like...
"...no boots on the ground... PERIOD".
LOL!
Rules of engagement mean everything. Our rule seems to be don’t shoot until having been shot.
Poor Obutthead’s ego got bent out of shape when Putin made him look like a fool in front of the rest of the world.
Can;t have that no matter how many lives it costs.
My God...My God. I can’t believe this idiocy. The guy is totally clueless. I cannot believe that we are sending troops, our troops in to the quagmire he started. Can you imagine if one or more are captured there, as you know that will happen....
Things are now at their tipping point folks. He is sending in a hand ful of people to their own fate.
Soetoro is a f’n idiot. He’s the ‘Rats lawn jockey...
Al Nusra is Syrian Sunnis who opposed Assad after ISIS. ISIS is Iraqis Sunnis and international Sunni Jihadis.
Get the Western MSM crap out of your head.
Assad is a state sponsor of terror. He couldn’t give a Rat’s A about (his Allawite minority Shia government) supporting Iraqi Sunnis as they had a common enemy -the West. Many Syrians were captured in Iraq, including intelligence services people. Same with Iranians down in southern Iraq. Syria was a known corridor for arms and international Jihadis, along with Iran.
I don’t care about Pelosi or Kerry. The Dems took congress in Jan 2007. They cared more about opposing Bush and ending the Iraq war than anything else. They wanted the money to spend on their priorities. They went to Syria to get assistance and an agreement to stop funding Iraqi insurgents so the US would have no pretext to remain. Assad did not give them a deal. Greedy, ignorant dumbasses all around.
ISIS did not “split from Al Qaeda” because the WERE Al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda-in-Iraq is what the Sunni insurgents were 2004 - 2011. They are Iraqi insurgents who have aligned with all types of groups. Whomever leads the group gets to pick the name. That’s about all that is.
ISIS rise had NOTHING to do with Arab Spring and everything to do with the US withdrawl from Iraq. When the US left there was nothing to keep the Syria-AIQ alliance going. Syria’s objective was met -US withdrwal from Iraq, so they stopped supporting AIQ. AIQ couldn’t stand down and turned on them rather than fully return to Iraq. AIQ kept its sanctuaries in Syria and began forays into Iraq for supplies, lacking re-supply from Syria. They went back and forth between border regions gaining equipment and territory and recruits.
Get your head out of Western spin crap journalism. Syria is a closed nation. A police state. You really think there was an “Arab spring” there? Laughable. To whatever extent there was one it may have contributed to Syrian Army defectors and the beginning of the civil war. It had nothing to do with ISIS.
ISIS occured because Syria stopped supporting AIQ which re-emerged under its own leadership and support as “ISIS” whose objective is to overthrow Syria, Iraq and anyone else they can.
If you want to understand the ME you must appreciate that Power comes first. Thereafter alliances and allegiances are made. The West does this backwards. So Western media-derived interpretations are always muddled, naive and stupid sounding.
“President Obama is directing the Pentagon to send special forces into Syria to advise the Syrian opposition....”
Syrian opposition to the President of Syria who’s backed by the Russians, is Obamacare insane?
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